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What is UW-MANIAC? UW-MANIAC (Madison Area Network for Innovation & Collaboration) represents a network of continued collaborative learning and growth. This unique partnership includes a diverse group of UW-Madison departments and academic perspectives, as well as those from the private and non-profit sector. We host several events a year around a wide variety of topics, including the “Innovation and Collaboration Learning Café Series," a creative learning space that teaches creativity tools in an applied manner, a "Breakfast Series" in which members share inspiring ideas and creative approaches to work, and other opportunities to meet and share ideas, both through face-to-face conversation and virtual dialogue. Feel free to utilize this online community to share reflections, ask questions, incubate an idea, and re-connect with those friendly faces from the other events. For additional information, please contact Harry Webne-Behrman, UW Office of Human Resource Development, at 608-262-9934 or hwebnebehrman@ohr.wisc.edu.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Michael Wesch - Rethinking Education

I don't know Michael Wesch, a professor at Kansas State, but I'd like to meet him! He is pushing the edge of the envelope in some marvelous, provocative ways that appear to be re-thinking education for the time in which we now live. Here's a good point of departure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

Now, check out some of the things he's doing in the classroom at Kansas State:
http://mediatedcultures.net/worldsim.htm

Finally, appreciate that he is getting some much-desereved kudos for his efforts:
http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2008/11/michael-wesch-wins-professor-of-the-year/

So, does this inspire you to be innovative in your teaching? in your work? in your approach to the opportunties before us that now present themselves?

Happy innovating...
-Harry
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