Ein Sachthema auf die Bühne bringen ist keine einfache Sache. Die Texte und Szenen mit den Kindern erarbeiten, auch nicht. Vor allem mit so vielen verschiedenen Nationen und einem Kind mit Autismus. Meine Hochachtung!
Leider konnte das Theaterstück medientechnisch nicht (ausser durch einige Fotos) festgehalten werden.
Ich durfte die Gruppe begleiten und miterleben, wie lehrreich und gleichzeitig beruhrend das Thema verarbeitet wurde. Für Sie hier nun der Inhalt des Stückes in groben Zügen:
TiSCH (Theater in SCHÖNAU) – Wasser
Die Wassertropfen können tönen – Ein Gedicht über von Jams Krüss erzählt davon.
Die Wassertropfen sind an der Quelle und „sprudeln“ hervor.
Wasserfragen werden gestellt, jedoch nur mit einer Gegenfrage beantwortet.
Danach treffen Menschenkinder auf das Wasser und missbrauchen es als Müllhalde. Das Wasser wird krank und leblos. Die Menschenkinder werden durstig, aber das verschmutzte Wasser können sie nicht trinken.
Also bauen sie eine Kläranlage. Die Menschenkinder erzählen über ihre Gefühle und fragen sich, ob das Wasser auch Gefühle haben kann. Sie werden darüber aufgeklärt, dass das Wasser Zustände haben kann – Aggregatzustände. Das Publikum durfte fühlen: Eiswürfeln und Wasser wurden gereicht.
Danach brauchten die Menschenkinder Strom und da bauten sie sich ein Wasserrad. Aber ohne Wasser ging nichts.
Also kam das Wasser und die Reise der Wassertropfenkinder ging weiter ans Meer. Dort angekommen, das große weite Meer genießend, feierten die Wassertropfenkinder ihr Ziel.
Jedoch die Sonne tauchte auf und verlangte: „Wassertropfenkinder, ihr müsst weiter!“
Am Ende wurde das Gedicht: Wasserkreislauf noch einmal mit Klanginstrumenten dargebracht.
Ich bin gespannt, ob und wie es nächstes Jahr weitergeht und freue mich, wenn ich wieder dabei sein darf …
WS 2014/15: Great student participation, great atmosphere, great results … energy felt.
Several projects with a product prototype or even on the market already as a result of previous lecture. Impact of the class is growing. Recommendations from previous classes echos.
I liked this one:
Woo Hoo – We give teachers more time to teach
-> a software used by 16 paying schools and more than 10.000 users.
Student Feedback
“Teams are able to create a higher quality outcome than you could do alone as everyone can submit something and you can support eachother. I hope that I can contribute to the group by keeping track of our work and analyzingthe process.”
Anna-Sophie
“Not only did we create a (more or less plausible) business plan, but also had the chance to present our idea and receive constructive feedback. Furthermore we learned more about our strengths and weaknesses, and how to use and cope with them. “
Alexei
I regularily read Dan Ariely`s Blog, I particpated in his MOOC and can only recommend everyone to do so. Why? It really helps you to understand human irrationality and why we repeatedly and predictably make the wrong decisions in many aspects of our lives.
This part of his latest blog articles about the Apple Pay question he answered is particularly interesting for the entire industry of technology and innovation. We need to think about designing technology in a way that helps us make better decisions.
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Dear Dan,
Apple recently announced Apple Pay, which will allow iPhone and Apple Watch users to simply wave their gadgets to pay for purchases. How might this technology change our spending habits? Could Apple Pay and other such hassle-free payment mechanisms (such as Amazon’s “1-click ordering”) lead us to spend more—particularly on stuff we don’t need?
—Nikki
The essence of payment is opportunity cost. Every time we face a purchasing decision, we should ask ourselves if getting this one thing is worth giving up the ability to purchase something else, now or in the future.
Different ways of paying make us think differently about those opportunity costs. For example, if we have $20 in cash in our pockets, we will have a hard time not thinking about opportunity cost. If we consider buying a sandwich, we realize that we won’t have money for coffee; if we get a cab, we realize that we won’t have money for dinner. But when we use a credit card or gift certificate, our thinking about opportunity cost will be less natural and prevalent—which means we’re likely to spend more without fully thinking about the consequences.
This is why the general answer to your questions is both yes and no. As you suggest, electronic payment mechanisms can easily lead us to think less about opportunity cost and spend more recklessly. But this doesn’t have to be the case. Electronic payment could be designed in ways that get us to more fully understand our opportunity costs and make more reasonable decisions. Apple Pay and the like could be game-changers, helping us think about our spending much more rigorously than we ever could with cash.
So the questions are: Who is designing these electronic wallets, and for what purpose? Will they be designed to get us to spend more money—or to help us make better decisions? Right now, electronic payments seem to be going down the path of less thinking and more spending—but I hope that at some point, some of the payment companies will change their approach, adopt the perspective of their users and offer electronic payment methods that help us make better financial decisions.
It starts out with you wanting to learn something which may seem like a long way to go and a huge task. Depending on what you have in mind, it may really take quite a long time.
After you are done, finished the exam, start practicing and using the knowledge in your daily life and work, it seems effortless to you since you know what you are doing.
The knowledge became part of you and seemingly disappeared. You do not notice any more that you have the abilities you have. This can become an obstacle when you need to “sell” yourself, your expertise and knowledge, for example when job searching, or trying to move up in a company.
Then the ability of being able to look at yourself from a little distance would come in handy. Self reflection is a skill by itself, needs some practice and at best, support from another person.
When we think one step ahead: how about if we would like to help others gain knowledge, teach and mentor people to learn.
Why? I think the reasons lies in the fact that the learning path of everyone is different as we are all unique individuals and go different ways to reach our goals.
A good teacher leads the way for you to find your own learning path.
Qualified and competent talents are missing everywhere
Instead of job portals where huge numbers of applications have to be filtered and HR and talent recruiters overflown with resumes from around the globe, not really knowing how to filter this data, Atlassian, a company from Australia started it’s “Europe, We’re Coming to Steal Your Geeks” campaign.
What lead to this decision: due to a limited supply of software developers in Australia they decided to look for programming talent in Europe. They decked out a bus, conducted interviews and hosted informational meetups at local coffee shops and pubs – all with the purpose of luring highly skilled developers back to Australia’s ‘Silicon Beach’ with a job at Atlassian and an all-expenses-paid relocation package to Sydney.
Does that mean that we have enough skilled talent in Europe?
“45 % of business leaders in Germany believe that internal IT competency does not or only partly satisfy the need of the company.”
MY FACIT
Talent and culture are the key drivers of future success. A company needs to find incredible people who feel passionate about what they do and therefore can create a culture where people feel they can deliver the best work of their careers.
The Worldskills 2013 in Leipzig were an event not only for highly engaged and highly competent youth in 46 professions. It was also a cross-generation event. There were an equal amount of experts committed to mentor and coach their national winners to be able to compete with the best talents of 52 nations.
There were many meetings and conferences that took place in the Conference Center of Leipzig Messe organized and attended by European and OECD leaders about youth (un)employment from across the world. In this truly global effort, that will be the basis for a continuously engaged platform, you could meet Ministers, Law Makers, CEOs of companies and foundations. They came together to not only speak about the currently very bad situation for youth in many countries but to take action and offer perspectives and a future to their youth.
The focus was put on joining forces, using synergies, learning from other`s mistakes and successes to leverage existing knowledge for changing the way things are. The dual education system which has been an essential part of the national education system in Germany, Switzerland and Austria is believed to be a big part of the solution to low youth unemployment. I attended following conferences during the WorldSkills Competition:
Green Industrial Skills for Sustainable Development
Humanity faces enormous challenges in the sustainability of our current lifestyles and systems. The decisions we take can either move us in the direction of sustainability or contribute to the growing problems. Green Industries are the driver towards sustainability and currently experience a high growth time. It is crucial to have access to the necessary skills to be able to realize the potential growth path.
The conference took place on July 1, 2013 and started with a plenary sessions and keynote addresses from Nobel Peace prize Laureate H.E. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Chairperson National League for Democracy in Myanmar, Ursula Müller from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany, Chakib Jeane and Marcos Pontes from UNIDO and Olga Strietska-Ilina from ILO. The following three panel discussions were dedicated to following topics:
Panel 1: Green Industry Initiative
Panel 2: Skills Development for renewable energy
Panel 3: Worldskills and how to sustain the industry through green skills competition development
It was a very interesting day dominated by the questions of how VET Vocational Education and Training can solve this problem to fill the skills gap detected in this crucial sector.
Skilling the future: VET and Workplace learning for Economic Success
This international conference organized by the OECD and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research [BMBF] focused on the role of Vocational and Adult Education as well as Workplace learning as the emerging challenges. After the keynote parallel working groups started and engaged in the following topics
VET and higher education: transition pathways and innovative blends of VET
Systematic development of apprenticeships and workplace learning: changing roles of responsibilities of trainees, employers and social partners
Innovative concepts for making the bridge between school and work
I participated in the working group three and presented the success story of Cisco Networking Academy – a CSR Program for educational organizations supplying a learning platform with IT Networking and System resources for IT skills development.
Resume
The Worldskills Conference Program 2013 “Our Youth – Our Future” was definitely a highlight of the WorldSkills Competition and will be instrumental to connect stakeholders on a global level to implement policies and programs that improve the situation and give our youth a prospective and positive outlook into the future of their nations.
Internet ist nicht einfach immer da. Dafür braucht es Geräte, die den Datenverkehr regeln und Menschen, die diese Geräte bauen, verkaufen, installieren und dann am Laufen halten. Der Gerätehersteller Cisco baut diese Strassen des Internets! Keine Email, kein Chatten, kein Facebook kein Skype wäre ohne Cisco Produkte möglich.
Am 25. April, dem Girls Day 2013, lädt das CISCO Büro in Wien Sie und Ihre Klasse ein, Kommunikationstechnologie in Aktion zu sehen und die Technologie des Internets bei uns hautnah kennenzulernen.
Es erwartet Sie und Ihre Klasse ein Einblick in die Arbeit in einem Unternehmen, das Geräte und Apps anbietet, die das Internet zum Laufen bringen. Es gibt die Möglichkeit, verschiedene Workshops zu den Themen “Sicher im Netz”, “Soziale Netze” und “PC-Technik” zu besuchen, wo man selbst aktiv ist.
Ich freue mich auf Ihre Rückmeldung und bespreche gern nähere Details direkt mit Ihnen. Wir hoffen, dass es Ihnen möglich sein wird, uns in einem der Büros zu besuchen.
Internet is not simply always there. It needs equipment that allows and regulates data transfer and people, who develop, build, sell, install and operate them. CISCO is one of the companies that build those Internet highways. No email, no chat, no facebook, no skype would be possible without Cisco products and services.
On April 25th, International Girls Day 2013, we invite you and your class to our CISCO Office in Vienna for you to see communication technology in action and experience the technology behind the Internet in practice.
You can get an inside view into a company providing equipment and apps that keep the Internet running. There are possibilities to join small workshops about topics like “Secure in the network”, “Social networks” and “How does my PC look from inside“ where you are actively involved.
We are looking forward to your reply and to discuss details about your visit directly with you. I personally hope to be able to meet you in one of our offices.
Cisco Systems, Richtistrasse 7, 8304 Wallisellen / Zürich
Cisco Systems International, Avenue des Uttins 5, 1180 Rolle
Cisco Systems @ Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Lausanne, Route Cantonale, 1015 Lausanne
Chers professeur(e)s!
Internet n’existe pas de son propre fait. Pour cela il faut de l’équipement qui permet de réguler les transferts de données et favorise l’accès aux personnes qui développent, construisent, vendent, installent et utilisent cet équipement. CISCO est une de ces entreprises qui construit ces autoroutes de l’internet. Sans les produits et services CISCO il n’y aurait pas d’email, de chat, de Facebook ou de Skype possible.
Le 25 avril 2013, lors de la Journée internationale des jeunes filles dans le secteur des TIC, nous vous invitons vous et votre classe à venir dans nos bureaux de de Zurich, Rolle ainsi qu’à l’EFPL de Lausanne afin que vous puissiez expérimenter les technologies de la communication en action et voir de manière concrète quelles sont les technologies derrière l’utilisation courante d’internet.
Vous aurez ainsi l’opportunité de voir de l’intérieur le travail d’une entreprise qui fournit des équipements et des applications qui font marcher internet. Vous aurez la possibilité de prendre part de manière participative à de petits ateliers sur des sujets comme « les réseaux sociaux », « à quoi ressemble mon PC de l’intérieur ».
Nous attendons avec impatience votre réponse et la possibilité de discuter plus activement les détails de votre visite directement avec vous.
J’espère pouvoir vous rencontrer personnellement dans l’un de nos bureaux.
Cisco Systems, Richtistrasse 7, 8304 Wallisellen / Zürich
Cisco Systems International, Avenue des Uttins 5, 1180 Rolle
Cisco Systems @ EPFL Technische Hochschule Lausanne, Route Cantonale, 1015 Lausanne
Liebe Lehrer- und LehrerInnen !
Internet ist nicht einfach immer da. Dafür braucht es Geräte, die den Datenverkehr regeln und Menschen, die diese Geräte bauen, verkaufen, installieren und dann am Laufen halten. Der Gerätehersteller Cisco baut diese Strassen des Internets! Keine Email, kein Chatten, kein Facebook, kein Skype wäre ohne Cisco Produkte möglich.
Am 25. April, dem Girls Day 2013, laden die CISCO Büros in Zurich, Rolle und am EPFL in Lausanne Sie und Ihre Klasse ein, Kommunikationstechnologie in Aktion zu sehen und die Technologie des Internets bei uns hautnah kennenzulernen.
Es erwartet Sie und Ihre Klasse ein Einblick in die Arbeit in einem Unternehmen, das Geräte und Apps anbietet, die das Internet zum Laufen bringen. Es gibt die Möglichkeit, verschiedene Workshops zu den Themen “Sicher im Netz”, “Soziale Netze” und “PC-Technik” zu besuchen, wo man selbst aktiv ist.
Ich freue mich auf Ihre Rückmeldung und bespreche gern nähere Details direkt mit Ihnen. Wir hoffen, dass es Ihnen möglich sein wird, uns in einem der Büros zu besuchen.
Internet is not simply always there. It needs equipment that allows and regulates data transfer and people, who develop, build, sell, install and operate them. CISCO is one of the companies that build those Internet highways. No email, no chat, no facebook, no Skype would be possible without Cisco products and services.
On 25 April 2013, on the occasion of International Girls in ICT Day, we invite you and your class to our CISCO Offices in Zurich, Rolle and at the EPFL in Lausanne for you to see communication technology in action and experience the technology behind the Internet in practice.
You can get an inside view into a company providing equipment and apps that keep the Internet running. There are possibilities to join small workshops about topics like “Secure in the network”, “Social networks” and “How does my PC look from inside”where you are actively involved.
We are looking forward to your reply and to discuss details about your visit directly with you. I personally hope to be able to meet you in one of our offices.
Each course is very different and here are this year’s group topics. Looking forward to to all results and more so to the way each one of the participants gets there …
G1 – City innovation study
G2 – The Human Power Plant
G3 – Online Platform Lecture Notes
G4 – Electric Scooter – Green bike
G5 – website for sharing recipes for people with medical situations
G6 – Group Traveling
G7 – Transportation Development in Cities
G8 – Social Magnetism brings poles together
G9 – Buddy Shopping
G10 – Multicopter
G11 – Synchronize ya Family
G12 – Control of objects by thoughts
G13 – Effect of colour in the building
G14 – Online learning platform
G15 – From traditional office work to work from home
G16 – Sustainable energy/resource saving
G18 – re-gain Energy
G19 – Eco Loco
G20 – Unused urban spaces
G21 – Uses for recycled waste
G22 – Team up
Interested in one of them?
Happy to connect with you. Just get in touch with me.
Many centuries ago great architects were also engineers, philosophers and writers. So interdisciplinarity is not a new concept. Today new technologies and ICT tools open up a broad field of ways of how to innovate and make life better for all. We depend on creative and innovative people to sustain and develop our economy to fulfill the needs of our society.
The Course CREATIVITY ENGINEERING offers participants a chance to learn about their creative potential, understand about the implementation of ideas in a market environment and check how things work out when trying to make an idea become reality in a multidisciplinary team from different cultural backgrounds.
It is my vision to make Creativity Engineering a step forward and make it an event that takes place with partners in different locations on the globe.I am looking for people sharing this vision in universities and companies. Contact me if who want to be part of making sure that we learn how we can use our knowledge and creative potential in the work environment in todays offices in better ways.
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Vor vielen Jahrhunderten waren große Architekten auch Ingenieure, Philosophen und Schriftsteller. Interdisziplinarität ist kein neues Konzept. Heute eröffnen uns neue Technologien ungeahnte Wege mit Innovationen das Leben für alle zu verbessern. Wir brauchen kreative und innovative Leute zue Erhaltung und Entwicklung unserer Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft.
Der Kurs CREATIVITY ENGINEERING bietet Teilnehmern die Möglichkeit, ihr eigenes kreatives Potential besser kennen zu lernen, Erfolgsfaktoren bei der Umsetzung im Markt verstehen zu können und ausprobieren zu können, welche Probleme und Erfolge bei der Verwirklichung so einer Idee in einem interdiszipliären Team mit Mitglieder aus verschiedenen Kulturen entstehen können.
Ich habe die Vision einen Schritt weiter zu gehen und aus Creativity Engineering einen Event zu machen, der mit localen Partner an verschiedenen Orten rund um den Globus stattfindet. Liegt es Ihnen am Herzen, dass wir unser Wissen und kreatives Potential in der heutigen Realiatät der Arbeitswelt schlauer einsetzen lernen. Ich suche Leute an Universitäten und in Firmen, die diese Vision teilen. Kontaktieren Sie mich …
The Course CREATIVITY ENGINEERING offers participants a chance to learn about their creative potential, understand about the implementation of ideas in a market environment and check how things work out when trying to make an idea become reality in a multidisciplinary team from different cultural backgrounds.
Der Kurs CREATIVITY ENGINEERING bietet Teilnehmern die Möglichkeit, ihr eigenes kreatives Potential besser kennen zu lernen, Erfolgsfaktoren bei der Umsetzung im Markt verstehen zu können und ausprobieren zu können, welche Probleme und Erfolge bei der Verwirklichung so einer Idee in einem interdiszipliären Team mit Mitglieder aus verschiedenen Kulturen entstehen können.
JETZT haben Sie die Möglichkeit, sich für den Kurs im Rahmen der Internationalen Summer School der TU Wien 2012 anzumelden. Wir freuen uns auf eine spannende und lustige Summer Session in Wien. Hier geht es zur Anmeldung.
Nachhaltigkeit sieht immer wieder anders aus – das ist ja grad so interessant daran und eben auch das schwierige.
Man muss sich halt Gedanken machen. Firmen, die das tun, werden langfristig die Früchte ernten. Denn Gutes braucht auch seine Zeit zum wachsen und reifen. Es freut mich, dass dies mehr und mehr erkannt wird und nicht nur das: es wird auch in die Tat umgesetzt.
Ein Beispiel aus meinem Netzwerk
Dr. Wolfgang Wimmer, begeisterter Imker, Entwickler des Varroa Controllers und Geschäftsführer der ECODESIGN company GmbH Nachhaltigkeit und Bienen – was wir lernen können und wo es unsere Hilfe braucht.
Der Varroa Controller kann von der Varroa Milbe befallene Stöcke retten.
… of economic, social and cultural changes. Technology certainly drives this change. We recommend the Deloitte Technology Trend Watch in search of the technology trends that will likely make the most positive impact on business performance. Here is the list:
(Re)Emerging Enablers
Disruptive Deployments
Visualization
Real Analytics
“Almost Enterprise” Applications
Social Computing
Cyber Intelligence
User Engagement
CIOs as revolutionaries
Applied Mobility
The end of the “Death of ERP”
Capability Clouds
Looking forward to comments, thoughts and feedback
Greenpeace veröffentlicht heute die bereits 16. Ausgabe des Ratgebers “Grüne Elektronik”.
Die Kluft zwischen engagierten Herstellern und jenen, die an den eigenen Versprechen scheitern, wird immer größer.
Highlights:
– Weiterhin führend ist Nokia, mein persönlicher Handyfavorit aus Finnland.
– Panasonic hat als erster Hersteller eine Initiative zur freiwilligen Rücknahme und zum Recycling seiner Fernseher in Indien gestartet.
– Die RoHS Richtlinie beschränkt gefährliche Materialien in Elektronikprodukten innerhalb der EU. Eine Überarbeitung ist geplant.
1 out of 6 higher education students are enrolled in online classes
The fastest growing segment on facebook is 55 – 65 year old females
80 % of companies use LinkedIn as their primary tool to find new employees
25% of search results for the World´s top 20 largest brands are links to user generated content
78% of consumers trust peer recommendations
Successful companies listen first, sell second
Successful companies act more like aggregators and content providers than traditional advertisers
Dear Dan,
Qualified and competent talents are missing everywhere
Many centuries ago great architects were also engineers, philosophers and writers. So interdisciplinarity is not a new concept. Today new technologies and ICT tools open up a broad field of ways of how to innovate and make life better for all. We depend on creative and innovative people to sustain and develop our economy to fulfill the needs of our society. 
The Course 
Greenpeace veröffentlicht heute die bereits 16. Ausgabe des Ratgebers “Grüne Elektronik”.
KulturImPuls 