How Silos Learn: Working in the Idea Factory
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The document by Amanda Costello discusses the challenges of silos in higher education and emphasizes the importance of collaboration and sharing resources. It references concepts from Stewart Brand regarding how structures evolve and highlights motivations such as resource scarcity and jealousy within academic environments. The message encourages starting small in efforts to foster change and improve communication across departments.
How Silos Learn: Working in the Idea Factory
- 1. Amanda Costello College of Education and Human Development University of Minnesota @amandaesque Working in the Idea Factory how silos learn
- 9. spoiler alert: You can’t report to yourself
- 18. how buildings learnby Stewart Brand
- 19. … not only to remain sturdy with age appropriate to its users but to remain as they themselves evolve. -Stewart Brand
- 27. us vs. them
- 29. wreck Efficiency
- 30. “I sure hope all of my hard work is being secretly duplicated elsewhere!” - No One, Ever
- 31. Reduce Morale
- 32. higher ed
- 33. idea factory
- 34. myth of the lone genius
- 35. myth of the lone genius
- 36. 20% thinkers
- 37. 20 - 40% thinkers
- 40. not enough space
- 41. not enough time
- 43. not enough money
- 44. Athletics!
- 45. 1. resource scarcity 2. Jealousy
- 46. they have something I want
- 47. they have something I want I deserve
- 48. The politics Sayre’s Law: because the stakes are so vicious are so Low
- 49. silos dipped in crazy sauce
- 50. image: K.C. Green, Gunshow #648
- 52. The Ivory Tower photo by Michael G White
- 53. … not only to remain sturdy with age appropriate to its users but to remain as they themselves evolve. -Stewart Brand
- 55. Site (functionally eternal) Structure (30 - 300 years) Skin (20 years) Services (7 - 15 years) Space Plan (3 - 30 years) Stuff (days/months)
- 58. who else?
- 60. Higher Ed Slam Book
- 63. 1. resource scarcity 2. Jealousy
- 68. My Boss Chief of Staff Chief of Staff other
- 70. My Boss Chief of Staff Chief of Staff other
- 72. bad: Fear
- 73. Eric Qualman, “Social Media Revolution 2015”
- 74. From Flickr User futureatlas.com
- 75. beloit mindset list Class of 2019 mostly born in 1997
- 76. Never licked a stamp
- 77. Assume wifi is an entitlement
- 78. Have no first-hand experience with the charismatic celebrity of princess diana
- 80. do the work. Give context. be better.
- 81. You are not literally trapped metal death tube in a
- 83. vomitoxin
- 84. Keep toxic in its silo
- 86. Site (functionally eternal) Structure (30 - 300 years) Skin (20 years) Services (7 - 15 years) Space Plan (3 - 30 years) Stuff (days/months)
- 88. invocation for beginnings Ze Frank
- 89. My pencils are even the dull ones sharp enough, will make a mark. Ze Frank
- 90. life isn’t just of waiting for a sequence done. Ze Frank things to be
- 91. Start small…
- 92. but Start.
- 93. Let’s be in touch amandac@umn.edu @amandaesque Thank you! I can drink lattes forever.