scholarly journals Teamwork, Edison Style

2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (02) ◽  
pp. 46-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Miller Caldicott
Keyword(s):  
Team Member ◽  
Beating Heart ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Knowledge Assets ◽  
Textile Worker ◽  
Instrument Maker ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Electric Light

This article discusses Thomas Edison’s concept of teamwork and collaborations. Edison fundamentally viewed collaboration as a connecting force, a transformational force that facilitated and made possible the development of new knowledge. Edison’s innovations were generated through focused approaches to teamwork and collaboration. He viewed collaboration as the beating heart of his laboratories, a sustaining resource that fueled the knowledge assets of his innovation. Edison designed a process of collaboration that was used across his entire enterprise of more than 200 companies worldwide. Because Edison believed that individuals are vital to collaborative success, he placed emphasis on the contributions of each team member as a critical component of the team’s joint efforts. Because he believed that a diverse group of individuals offered the best chance for collaborative success, Edison consistently created teams that had members from several disciplines. The famous group that drove the breakthrough thinking behind the incandescent electric light consisted of a glassblower, a machinist, a chemist, a mathematician, an instrument maker, and a textile worker, along with Edison himself.

scholarly journals The Initial Impact of the Open Scholarship Policy Observatory

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Sarah Milligan ◽  
Kimberly Silk ◽  
Alyssa Arbuckle ◽  
Ray Siemens
Keyword(s):  
Diverse Group ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
International Policies ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Critical Issues

In September 2016, members of the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) Partnership—a broad, diverse group working to advance understanding of, and resolve critical issues in, the production, distribution and widespread engagement of digital scholarship in Canada and beyond—met to discuss future directions and focus areas. One of the resulting initiatives is the Open Scholarship Policy Observatory. The Open Scholarship Policy Observatory tracks national and international policies and policy changes in order to assist INKE partners with developing timely and responsive policies. This paper describes the development of the initiative, and reports on the initial impacts the project has had to date.

scholarly journals The entomological exhibition of a Science museum and its contributions to non-formal Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 43668
Author(s):  
Nathália Cristina Gonzalez Ribeiro ◽  
Débora De Mello Gonçales Sant'Ana
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Fourth Graders ◽  
Science Museum ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
Natural History Museums ◽  
History Museums ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Taxonomic Groups ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Lay Public

The Insecta Class is the most diverse group of animals on the planet. A big part of this composition is available in the collections of Natural History Museums, being essential for researches and diffusion actions involving a specialized and lay public. This paper aimed to verify the importance of an entomological exhibition of a Science museum for the acquisition of new knowledge and conception change regarding insects. To this end, 128 fourth-graders from elementary school were asked to draw an insect and write a brief description of it in relation to their knowledge about insects. Then, they visited an entomological exhibition, and a week later, using the "stimulated recollection method", they made a new drawing and description. The extracted data were organized in categories and statistically analyzed. Significant changes were observe regarding the children’s knowledge and concepts on insects in most of the analyzed aspects, such as the decrease of drawings and descriptions of animals belonging to other taxonomic groups and an increase on correct descriptions of concepts.

A Learning Team Drama in One Act

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Lynn A. Isabella ◽  
Jessica Pohl ◽  
Jason Sinnarajah
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
Team Member ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
Multicultural Teams ◽  
Mba Students ◽  
Learning Teams ◽  
Team Experience ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Learning Team ◽  
One Act

“Hee Soap, Hee Soap,” Timothy Jones sang out in a mocking fashion towards Hee Seop Choi, a fellow learning team member at a noted graduate school of business. Hoping to gain the benefits from a diversity of resources, knowledge, and ideas, MBA students at this school were assigned to learning teams. Each member was specifically chosen with an effort to mix up gender, nationalities, professional backgrounds, and interests. But those advantages may be outweighed by problems stemming from multicultural differences. This case offers a disguised, yet real, team experience that can be used in the classroom to unpack how this richly diverse group had trouble getting along and why their personality clashes intensified. The opportunity to discuss the challenges in light of culture, and the difference between that and problems stemming from personalities will help students reap the benefits intrinsic in multicultural teams.

scholarly journals Peran Media Sosial di Internet pada Penerapan Proses Knowledge Management

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
Sartika Kurniali
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Knowledge Assets ◽  
Research Results ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Management Application ◽  
Business Purpose

Knowledge management application on the internet keeps growing. It happens because the Internet offers new opportunities to use the knowledge assets, defines and spreads type of new knowledge assets, even to outside the organization. On the internet, appear social media that enable internet-based knowledge sharing system. As we know social media is not something new and has undergone many changes that allow for more interactive interaction and much greater number of users now. The research results showes that knowledge management and social media have nearly similar components. This allows the role of social media on the knowledge management application, such as collaboration tools coming with a clear business purpose. 

scholarly journals Penerapan Tahapan Membangun Aplikasi Knowledge Management pada Subdivisi Orafin di PT X

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 421
Author(s):  
Sartika Kurniali
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Knowledge Assets ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Collaboration Tools ◽  
Business Purpose

The application of knowledge management on the Internet keeps growing. This is due to the Internet that offers new opportunities to use the knowledge assets, define the type of new knowledge assets, and spread even outside the organization. The emerging social media is enabling internet-based knowledge sharing system. Social media itself is nothing new, but now has undergone many changes that allow for much interactive interaction and much greater number of users. The results showed that knowledge management and social media contain almost the same components. This allows the role of social media on the application of knowledge management, such as collaboration tools accompanied by a clear business purpose.

Adults' Abilities to Detect Children's Readiness to Learn

1995 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Perry ◽  
Jacqueline Woolley ◽  
John lfcher
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Learning Readiness ◽  
Mathematics Problems ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Readiness To Learn

Children are much more likely to benefit from instruction when they are ready to incorporate new knowledge into their existing knowledge base. But can we detect such readiness? In a series of studies, we investigated this critical component of the interactional nature of the learning process. In the first study, we assessed whether adults are able to identify children who are receptive to instruction. Adults were presented with video tapes of pairs of children solving mathematics problems and asked to identify the receptive child (i.e. the child who later actually learned) in each pair. Adults were able to determine which children were receptive. In a second study, we attempted to train adults to use previously established criteria of learning readiness to identify these children. Although the adults only relied on these criteria for about half of their decisions, when they used these criteria, they were highly successful at identifying which children were receptive to instruction. Finally, in a third study, we showed adults video tapes of different children and we obtained comparable results as in Studies 1 and 2. In conclusion, we found that adults can detect readiness to learn in children and thus can be in a position to deliver instruction at optimal times.

Adopting Knowledge-Centred Principles in Innovation Pursuits

2011 ◽  
pp. 335-353
Author(s):  
Andrew Goh
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Innovation Management ◽  
Knowledge Assets ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Knowledge Age

With the emergence of the knowledge economy, organizations are beginning to see a need to apply knowledge management (KM) practices to their business activities. While knowledge management (KM) has gathered considerable momentum to be a vital source of competitive advantage, how its role could harvest knowledge assets for innovation has yet to be firmly established. This chapter aims to address this issue by examining how innovation can be fostered through knowledge-centered principles. It first describes the globalization of economies and the coming of the new knowledge age as the backdrop to Singapore’s vision of transiting into a knowledge economy. Then it discusses how knowledge management (KM) practices can be harnessed better for innovation management and explains why organizations should foster innovation by adopting an evolving set of knowledge-centered principles. Next, based on the case of Singapore Airlines (SIA), it provides a theoretical review of these principles. Finally, it outlines the future challenges of exploiting knowledge for innovation.

Attitudes of Interdisciplinary Team Members Toward Speech-Language Services in Public Schools

1986 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lou Tomes ◽  
Dixie D. Sanger
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
School Psychologists ◽  
Elementary School Principals ◽  
Team Member ◽  
Interdisciplinary Team ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Language Programs ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
State Area

A survey study examined the attitudes of interdisciplinary team members toward public school speech-language programs. Perceptions of clinicians' communication skills and of the clarity of team member roles were also explored. Relationships between educators' attitudes toward our services and various variables relating to professional interactions were investigated. A 64-item questionnaire was completed by 346 randomly selected respondents from a two-state area. Classroom teachers of grades kindergarten through 3, teachers of grades 4 through 6, elementary school principals, school psychologists, and learning disabilities teachers comprised five professional categories which were sampled randomly. Analysis of the results revealed that educators generally had positive attitudes toward our services; however, there was some confusion regarding team member roles and clinicians' ability to provide management suggestions. Implications for school clinicians were discussed.

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