Here is the Big Picture idea at the heart of Where Good Ideas Come From. If you can, watch the video and then make one connection of your own to it from the introduction ("Reef, City, Web"). Then leave feedback to two of your classmates' posts.
This will go as bonus points for discussion.
Good, innovative ideas usually come from a collision of smaller ideas. This reminds me a great deal of the main point of "Reef, City, Web" and that is the importance of connecting ideas rather than protecting them.
ReplyDeleteThis is seen in the great explosion of life in coral reefs. The conditions there are optimal for life to thrive. Cities too are hubs of creativity because conditions are ripe for wide varieties of people to thrive off of one another (there is a reason universities are like little cities unto themselves). The web, as well, allows us - as Isaac and Bailey illustrated with their yarn exercise yesterday - to become more innovative/creative because we are all so easily connected now.
That concept, actually, reminds me a great deal of the last book we read, Steal Like an Artist. Just think of the lessons you would design NOW after viewing the efforts of your classmates! That is what you'll get to do when you work with your mentors to create your lesson plan for Where Good Ideas Come From.
Steal and innovate as much as you can to produce something creative and meaningful.
Excellent point because seeing what some of the other groups did inside I was thinking that somehow we could have incorporated something like that into our lesson plan. Though I will say we already stole from you Reynolds by using waffitti and by showing YouTube in class (something that was very taboo). Also with the flow chart I created those things I would have never incorporated had they not affectivley taught me like they did in your lesson.
DeleteTotally agree Leandra. We weren't entirely sure about which direction we were going to go with our lesson plan. We would have never used waffiti if you hadn't showed us in class Reynolds. Same with the flowchart. If we hadn't gone over infographs, we probably wouldn't have thought to use that either. Our lesson plan would have been just a slideshow with videos. Pretty mediocre. But because others have shared their ideas, we were able to enhance our presentation for the better.
DeleteI really like when he talks about not protecting ideas but connecting them. Which is so important, and I believe it is also important to remember that what you may envision in your head isn't the only good idea let other people improve upon your ideas and be open to them. The whole point of good innovation is the sharing of ideas and spaces and networks that is how you can make something more impressive than you dreamed because it is not only your dream but other peoples dreams put together. This creates something truly wonderful and awe-inspiring. When someone says it's more that I imagined that's because it's not your imagination but the imagination of multiple innovators.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you when you say the whole point of good innovation is the sharing of ideas, spaces, and networks.
DeleteWhile reading the introduction, and after watching the video, I thought about how Arctic Cat came to be. Edgar Hetteen had an idea to build a snowmobile. Did he just keep the idea to himself? No. He recruited others who could also see his vision. Look where it got him. He ended up founding two snowmobile companies, Polaris and Arctic Cat, because he shared his ideas.
It all comes back around to the fact that sharing your ideas is so essential. Protecting your ideas won't take you as far as you could go. You need to connect them if you want your breakthrough to be impressive.
I connected this video to the introduction because it talked about sharing your ideas, and how having two slow hunches collide can form awesome ideas. It reminded me of the three guys who created YouTube. They all had similar ideas, and they came together to form one great product. We wouldn't have YouTube today if these guys had protected their ideas, or just kept them to themselves. Instead, they shared them, and look where YouTube is now. It's used by millions of people everyday.
ReplyDeleteHaving ideas come together is essential. As Johnson says, having hunches come together can make a bigger breakthrough. Your idea can only go so far if you're doing it all on your own. Share your ideas with others, and your breakthrough could be huge.