Subject: Innovation

Posted by Pedro D. Almaguer Prado on 11/30/2010
In Reply To:Innovation Posted by Richard Turnock on 11/29/2010

Message:

Dear Richard:

Good that addresses the issue of learning environments or learning communities or learning organizations, but for this to become reality there are many more things that have not been taken into account that embody such an adventure where systems thinking plays an important role.

To form a learning community must first go through to five important steps such as:
1. Personal Mastery - Discover a purpose, mission, vision and values and insight into their natural strengths such as its five dominant talents, their social and emotional intelligence (know precisely what social and emotional skills are strong and which areas I have opportunity), learning styles, perhaps his Gardner's multiple intelligences and their team roles.
2. Share vision: to share the vision of school, company, organization, etc..with the community they serve.
3. Develop teams emocionaly socially intelligent, it requires the development of emotional and social competencies such as influence, communication, teamwork and collaboration, leadership, developing others, empathy, self-control, self-awareness, etc. ..
4. Modeling mental: to grow our ability to visualize the cause-effect cycles that underlie all real-world problem where everything is interconnected, we want to see or not, whether we realize it or not, in other words have a clear idea of the pervasiveness of interdependence.
5. Systems Thinking: Finally the use of system dynamics to simulate the models displayed in step (4), this final step closes the jaw and that creating a new model on the computer, you can add new policies and procedures to view on the impact of our decisions over time and thus able to achieve a more sustainable goal or objective, and above all enables us to reflect and re-learning using the learning lab or business game developed as a product.

Richard, as you can see we need to clearly define a vision to take direction and to build step by step the environment, learning community or organization you want to implement.

Interesting discussion and analysis that is forming around the improvement of innovation K12, which contains multiple learning communities we want to see or not, whether we realize it or not.

Receive warm greetings from Monterrey, NL, Mexico.

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