TimeDesk & de toekomst van werk en inkomen
Door het lanceren van TimeDesk als nieuwe werkvorm doorbreken we de negatieve sentimenten rondom werkloosheid en door de perverse regelgeving die werkloosheid in de hand werkt in plaats van oplost.
Ik opereer als strategisch termiet en kom optimaal tot mijn recht in situaties waar weinig structuur is. Ik maak geen plannen maar heb wel een brede visie hoe op termijn resultaat te behalen. Belangrijkste eigenschap is dat ik situaties creëer die vervolgens hun eigen dynamiek meebrengen en zo verandering tot stand brengen vanuit onbekende hoek. Vastomlijnde plannen passen uiteraard niet in deze avontuurlijke aanpak
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“Failure is absolutely required.”
Dave Peth, Senior Produce of Interactive Media at WGBH
speaking at CreativeMornings/Boston(*watch the... -
“Everything in the world is purchased by labor.”
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So education is an enormously important topic in this context and also one that “knowmad” John Moravec could only broach at the conference. It is true that we need to be rather imaginative in this area. However, and somewhat paradoxically, we also need to be very clear about the specific parameters that we want to use in order to set up a 3rd space of education as one of imagination, one that facilitates the formation of individuals able to navigate their tech-saturated environment as active contributors rather than passive consumers.
Exploring the “3rd space” of co-working and co-learning | Education Futures
Welcome to the world of flexitime schooling which will see a child in Spain educated through Skype from the UK and a mother who splits her son’s education between home teaching and school. Hollinsclough Church of England primary school in Staffordshire is the first in the UK to introduce a part-time policy for pupils.[…]
Now she has 11 full-time pupils, 10 part-timers and as many as 15 to 20 families coming in to join the school’s learning “hub” – which arranges events such as simulations of archaeological digs and arts activities for children.The school’s motto is to provide what the parents want for their children, said Mrs Mountford-Lees. “I recently asked them what they would most like and some of them said for their children to learn Latin.” She is now trying to arrange for a private tutor to come in and provide the classes.(via @per_infontology)
This is a really interesting concept which starts to break down some of the traditional views of what a school is.
To me the important part is that this model was made possible by slack in the system. One key part was a school and a teacher with too few pupils, the other key part was home schooled children who searched for a part time teachers with a certain skill or knowledge.
In the civilized world schools and school systems are almost always so optimized and efficient (read “stuffed”) that there are neither time nor space to be innovative. If innovation needs something it is white space to innovate in, and that is true in the educational system as well.
via futuramb:
Kimani Nganga Maruge, the world’s oldest student, has died at the age of 90 from stomach cancer, an official at a pensioners’ home where he was living said. Donatila Ekuyi from Cheshire Home for the Aged, announced his death on Friday, saying:”He has been sick and his condition had deteriorated lately.”
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