Learn at Your Own Risk

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Learn how to use the IdeaSpaces Frame-work to design post-pandemic teaching with Learn at Your Own Risk.

Discovering Digital Humanity

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Discovering Digital Humanity is a relationship manual for humans and technology to foster creativity and innovation in the Digital Age. 

Empowering ecosystems of humans to augment their capacity for creativity, learning and innovation in a Digital Age through the strategic application of technology

 

We miss opportunities for learning, innovation, and organizational change because of narrow paradigms of thought that are a legacy of the Industrial Age. The IdeaSpaces concept is a holistic analytical framework to help us imagine and design ecosystems of evolution, innovation, and lifelong learning.

The West Houston Institute - An example of a physical SPACE

The West Houston Institute – An example of a physical SPACE
My Remote Teaching classroom in Zoom - An Example of a Virtual SPACE

My Remote Teaching classroom in Zoom – An Example of a Virtual SPACE
• Space reflects the application of effective design into our physical and virtual spaces. •
• Effective Spaces are a precondition for innovative environments. However, they are not sufficient to realize human innovation. •
• “Innovative” Spaces fail to live up to their potential when they are seen as an end to an innovation process rather than as a means to ongoing innovation. •
• If you get this part wrong, the other parts of the innovation equation are hobbled. •
Results of hackathon integrating elements of synchronous and asynchronous TIME

Results of hackathon integrating elements of synchronous and asynchronous TIME

 

• Time is critical for the iteration and formation of ideas and their formation in the first place. •
• Eureka moments only occur in fiction. People and organizations need Time to reflect on what is working and what isn’t. •
• Intertwingled Conversations change us and we need to expand Time in order to have them. •
• Brainstorming efforts followed by a process of constant iteration are essential in creating what Nicholas Taleb refers to as antifragile humans and organizations. •

 

 

The STAC Model - An example of a STRUCTURE supporting an informal learning environment

The STAC Model – An example of a STRUCTURE supporting an informal learning environment

 

• Effective Structure requires creating human-centered networks that facilitate growth and innovation •
•  Innovation Structures nurture networks of Spaces and Time to allow humans to develop liquid networks  •
• Systemic antifragility requires constant attention and adaptability. •
• Organizational Structures must is flexible enough to allow for change and yet rigid enough to capture innovation. •

 

 

It is only with the mindful application of all three levels of this framework that Innovation can be sustained in any organization. Space absent Time and Structure will lead to under- or misused physical spaces and technologies, for instance. Structures without effective Spaces will be handicapped as its conversations are hobbled by a lack of gathering places for ideas.

It is my hope that through ongoing discussion and iteration, the concept of IdeaSpaces itself will help people take a holistic approach to creating the kind of change that will help us and our children survive and thrive in a world of endless possibilities and challenges.