Leapfrog - innovation et développement du capital humain et social
Arthur Harkins et John Moravec de l’Université du Minnesota développent le concept de Leapfrog, un nouveau modèle d’innovation par le développement du capital humain. À travers le Leapfrog Institutes et Education Futures, ils nous présentent l’évolution de leurs projets.
Définition de Leapfrog :
Leapfrogging means to jump over obstacles to achieve goals. It means to get ahead of the competition or the present state of the art through innovative, time-and-cost-saving means. Leapfrog denotes leadership created by looking and acting over the horizon. Leapfrog creates the future in the present based on what is found over the horizon. Leapfrog first acts to create proximal futures, and then solidly grounds the most promising futures within the present. This process marks an extension of Vygotsky’s and Dewey’s work, while ever looking toward the future.
Entrevue avec Arthur Harkins
- Aussi cette très intéressante présentation intitulée : Designing education for sustainable innovation : anticipating the singularity
- Memorendum : Building a “Leapfrog” University v6.0
Finalement, voici comment les étudiants vont jouer leur rôle !
Students will…
- Think systemically: perceiving existing patterns and constructing alternatives to them.
- Think simulationally: conducting “what if?” thought experiments and mental rehearsals using controlled imagination and projections.
- Thrive in the midst of changes, challenges, and unknowns: developing perspectives, knowledge, and choices to cope with and leverage complexity and uncertainty.
- Create and manipulate alternative pasts, presents, and futures: creating and managing virtual time; developing flexible definitions of social and personal time; selectively associating alternative pasts and futures with multiple presents.
- Develop and respond to goals and challenges: setting goals and objectives; detecting and anticipating impediments to success; designing solutions to impediments.
- Understand and effectively utilize existing information: accessing and selectively employing information in pursuit of opportunities and problem resolutions.
- Construct and utilize personally applicable knowledge: selectively transforming information into personally usable knowledge; building a personally styled capability to add intellectual and other forms of variety to the world; enhancing decision-making options.
- Construct and utilize knowledge related to contexts, processes, and cultures: perceiving, designing, and constructing real and virtual contexts suitable for specific tasks; compiling and utilizing many perspectives on given subjects; enhancing decision-making options.
- Effectively utilize current and emerging ICT systems: staying atop the technologies that permit modern learning and economies; being first in the adoption and effective use of hardware, software, and networking technologies.
- Acquire and assess knowledge of selected global trends: constructing “big pictures” of the world using different resources for each picture; becoming a global thinker and citizen; employing big pictures to help contextualize relatively localized problems, opportunities, goals and means.
- Write and speak in a unique voice: developing and utilizing personal uniqueness; applying uniqueness alone and with cohorts, groups, and teams; developing identity and character.
- Take personal responsibility for intentions and performance quality: ethically accepting accountability for personal actions and inactions; accepting personal and social assessments of performance quality.
