Discuss your understanding, connections, and ah-ha’s in light of Eddie Obeng’s Smart Failure for a Fast Changing World Ted Talk.
First of all, I am so glad that clip "Smart Failure for a Fast Changing World" by Eddie Obeng, was a TedTalk because I could pause and rewind a bit. Boy, he talks fast! He is super entertaining, but I had to pause quite often and listen to it again. I can completely relate to his theory that "Somebody, or something, has changed the rules about how our world works". I was just speaking with a close friend about technology and the business world. The rules and understandings have disappeared. What we knew then is different from what we know now. What is going to happen in the future? It is a clear assessment when Obeng states, "They switched all the rules around...deleted, flipped...". Also, I agree with him that "The key is implementation". I feel that is what we are doing in our classrooms right now with online learning and our 702 class. We are implementing new ways of teaching. We are flipping and blending designs to be more efficient. We are looking at the big picture and doing backward planning. Obeng quoted his friend, Tim Brown as saying, "Design must get big. Design thinking must tackle big systems for the challenges we have". The world is changing. It is a fact when he states, "Global is the new scale". It is fast and turbulent. It is changing at accelerated rates. It has "Increased the speed, the scale, and the density of interaction" (Obeng, 2012). We have to keep up the best we can with learning new tools, new ways of interactions, and transforming our lives to be in the present, not the past.
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AuthorMy name is Kimberlee Nelson. I am a mother of two and a 3rd grade teacher at Irene M. Snow Elementary School, in Napa. Archives
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