Sally Loughlin and I have traded recommendations for professional development reading for several months. Most recently she suggested one outside of our normal boxes: Cradle to Cradle by McDonough and Braungart. They offer an appealing new approach to design of a wide range of artifacts from buildings to communities and books to cars. The TED Conference invited McDonough to present to their meeting and recently published the 20-minute video of his presentation:
The video complements the text-based presentation of the book well so I wanted Sally to know about the video introduction. I could have sent the link to her but chose this post as a better alternative. It is part of my efforts to move from channels to platforms for collaboration.
McDonough presented a user produced video clip of an earlier dialog. He honors the remix culture. How do these principles apply to our work? We already aspire to life-long learning but find difficulty in doing it because of competition for our time and attention. What can we stop doing to make time for this important work?
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http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/104
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Hi Steve,
Thank you; the video was great! (Certainly likely to engage others with it!) I got a chance to watch this and will do it again soon.
Yours,
Sally
Jim Gibbons, engineering faculty at Stanford, showed that recorded video helped in-service professional development of engineers when small groups could stop the video and discuss issues that it raises. I wonder whether we could use something like this it that way.
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