As part of a project planning process it's often an effective technique to employ Gary Klein's idea of a pre-mortem exercise - something that Kahneman in his wonderful book 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' describes as "the best idea"[1] for taming unfounded optimism.
In one sense, you would be hard pushed to find someone who argued for less rigour in education - who doesn't want students to learn as much, and as deeply, as possible. The crux comes when people start defining the learning processes and the content that constitute 'rigour'.
For the last few months we have been busy articulating a new practical programme to respond to the challenges and opportunities that an ever more ubiquitous, larger and smarter digital environment creates for education.
Tim Harford, in his (wonderful) new book puts it very sharply - any solution to climate change "is going to come either because individuals voluntarily change their behaviour, or because governments change the rules."[1]
This week I visited a learning experience that The Philosophy Shop are delivering on idiscover.
A brilliant scheme that has transformed the education system in New York has shown how a disciplined approach to innovation can reap huge rewards
NESTA's Big Green Diffusion project sets out to explore ways of encouraging the take-up of green initiatives at scale.
Our idiscover project aims to show how different learning experiences can equip young people with the skills they need to thrive in an innovation economy.
Matthew Slater looks at the projects represented at the recent unconference on the complementary currency software developers sector
NESTA is interested in supporting timebanking, complementary currencies and various newer ideas around the sharing economy, seeing them as platforms for civic engagement and reciprocity in civil society.
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