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Learning and Working in the Collaborative Age: A New Model for the Workplace

Pixar University's Randy Nelson explains what schools must do to prepare students for jobs in new media.

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Release Date: 9/10/2008
Running Time: 10 min.

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Great Video

Amazing to have a look into the hiring process of such a great company. But why do I feel from his tone that is talking to children? I especially like the anecdotes about the astronauts. Who knew the failure could an asset? Too bad for the people filtered out for being perfect I guess.



children's tone

Loved the content.

Bothered by the delivery. The 'children tone' that plagues so many speakers is due to a number of factors. His rate is fine, but his consistent use of hushed tones and big expression (think Blues Clues) can feel condescending to many adults.



Question

I found this video to be intelligent and inspiring, and like yourself, I liked the astronaut segment. I tend to have "failure avoidance" tendencies, so I would likely have been a filtered-out candidate that was not chosen for those pioneering space missions. This video made me wonder, "Am I sitting on the sidelines too much?" I've come to conclude that I'm not on the sidelines, yet Nelson's right, I'm not likely to reach the moon with the way that I do things. However, I think that it's important to recognize that tenacity need not be a quality possessed exclusively by risk takers. Anyway, it seems that we both reacted most strongly to the same part of the video. I'm considering showing it to high school students as a lead into a collaboration activity. Your comments were interesting, thanks.



Interested

As an educator and as a Cooperative Learning trainer, one line was an awakening for me is "Be interested, not interesting." Those simple words crystallize what so many write pages about what we need to do in education, and for that matter throughout every facet of society. What if we all worked to be more interested than interesting? Hmmm.



origin of phrase

Just quick FYI, that phrase "be interested versus interesting" has been around a long time. I do not know the origin of it but may have seen it in a Franklin Covey book 10 or 20 years ago.



winning people sometimes are not enough

judjement (good and bad) slows the production and people with fast adaptability skills may master something (as you say), or they may win something. But the world is full of people who loses, and since you sell the movies to these people, i think having someone who's not built to win may be good for you.



Collaboration is Hardwork

A very inspiring talk. I plan to have the editors of our new student newspaper watch it as guidance for how our staff should strive to work together. I think kids are hungry for collaborative projects and lessons, but traditional schooling rarely incorporates this except for some GATE classes...and these keep getting cut. The student newspaper (grades 1st-8th) is being conducted as an afterschool enrichment project that requires separate fees.

Unfortunately, No Child Left Behind has also reduced teacher incentive for collaborative learning. In our elementary school kids spend at least half the day seperated by their skill levels and only seem to come together during PE and Music. They almost never mix the classes of a certain grade level to work together, and I know most kids would like the chance to work/learn with their friends from other classes, but it never happens. They have also cut the school sports programs at the elementary level which is always a great lesson in collaboration.

In the current economic situation I hope parents will take up the slack and sponsor these types of special projects and volunteer time to pull them off.

However, if there are grants for school projects or teacher incentives for these types projects please post the information so I can pass it on to our local schools.



He says that "Collaboration

He says that "Collaboration means amplification - brings depth and breadth to a problem".

This is absolutely spot-on.

I just wonder if hierarchically organised, subject-organised rather than problem-oriented, test-driven schooling can ever really deliver this kind of thing? And there are so many vested interests which argue for a standards-based curriculum. I think a problem-based and project-based curriculum is far more powerful.

My book 'The Creative College' explores some of these issues in a practical way for arts educators.



Unable to embed video

Great video but I am unable to embed it as the Copy and paste this code to your Web page section closes before I have a chance to click copy.



Works just fine for me.

Works just fine for me.

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