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John M. Eger
Van Deerlin Chair of Communication and Public Policy
Executive Director, International Center for Communications
College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive, PFSA 160
San Diego, CA 92182-4522
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-- His paper on Smart Communities in InterMedia.
Dear E-Colleagues:
(1) ATTACHMENT I below is a msg I received from John recently.
Dear John:
Many thanks.
It is an article about creativity by Thomas Friedman. He is the author of
the book ÒThe World Is Flat,Ó which is one of the best seller books <http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/worldisflat.htm>.
(2) Attached to this msg is a slide I often use;
Culture
of America (Unique crucible for innovation)
<Culture of America.pdf>
http://masl.to/?R25D3216E
This was taken from Tom FriedmanÕs previous article appeared in The New York
Times.
Spread of democracy should be made with collaborative
innovation, but not by weapons. Here comes the urgent need for the global
e-learning.
(3) Pls retrieve my following previous list distributions on the innovation vs
Confucianism;
(a) (08/04/06)
John Eger's two essays on creativity in China and America
http://tinyurl.com/kzc2v
(b) (06/19/06) (a) John Eger's new two essays, (b) Innovation vs
Confucianism and (c) New Book flyer for Tapio Varis' Birthday
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K4822138D
(4) Confucian countries (e.g., China, North Korea and Japan, etc.) would need
ÒCultural RevolutionÓ to become creative/innovative society.
ÒThe biggest barrier for new development of Human-Centric Knowledge Society is
our Industrial Age mindset!Ó
This is the last words of the following paper;
Kaisa
Kautto-Koivula and Marita Huhtaniemi, Nokia Ventures Organization
"Evolution Towards Human-Centric Knowledge Society. Can Societies Learn
from Global Corporations?"
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z17D56259
(5) Attached to this msg is also a slide <To lead is to serve.pdf> <http://masl.to/?F56D2116E>.
It is said;
ÒThere is nothing higher than creativeness, and there is no greater joy.
Therefore – create and rejoice! Be daring in creative flight. ÒCreate
courageously!Ó Let thought undistorted and unrestricted be impressed in your
being. Let it be free from the shadow of the censorÕs scalpel. Be true to
yourself because there is nothing higher than creativeness.Ó
Pls have a very pleasant holiday season with your creativity!!
Best, Tak
ATTACHMENT
I
From:
john eger
<jeger@mail.sdsu.edu>
Date: Wed, 13
Dec 2006 11:34:18 -0800
To: <Jeger@mail.sdsu.edu>
Subject: worth
reading re creativity
Learning
to Keep Learning
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: December 13, 2006
I recently attended an Asia Society education seminar in Beijing, during which
we heard Chinese educators talk about their "new national strategy."
It's to make China an "innovation country" - with enough indigenous
output to advance China "into the rank of innovation-oriented countries by
2020," as Shang Yong, China's vice minister of science and technology, put
it.
I listened to this with mixed emotions. Part of me said: "Gosh, wouldn't
it be nice to have a government that was so focused on innovation - instead of
one that is basically anti-science." My other emotion was skepticism. Oh,
you know the line: Great Britain dominated the 19th century, America dominated
the 20th and now China is going to dominate the 21st. It's game over.
Sorry, but I am not ready to cede the 21st century to China yet.
No question, China has been able to command an impressive effort to end
illiteracy, greatly increasing its number of high school grads and new
universities. But I still believe it is very hard to produce a culture of
innovation in a country that censors Google - which for me is a proxy for
curtailing people's ability to imagine and try anything they want. You can
command K-12 education. But you can't command innovation. Rigor and competence,
without freedom, will take China only so far. China will have to find a way to
loosen up, without losing control, if it wants to be a truly innovative nation.
But while China can't thrive without changing a lot more, neither can we. Ask
yourself this: If the Iraq war had not dominated our politics, what would our
last election have been about? It would have been about this question: Why
should any employer anywhere in the world pay Americans to do highly skilled
work - if other people, just as well educated, are available in less developed
countries for half our wages?
If we can't answer this question, in an age when more and more routine work can
be digitized, automated or offshored, including white-collar work, "it is
hard to see how, over time, we are going to be able to maintain our standard of
living," says Marc Tucker, who heads the National Center on Education and
the Economy.
There is only one right answer to that question: In a globally integrated
economy, our workers will get paid a premium only if they or their firms offer
a uniquely innovative product or service, which demands a skilled and creative
labor force to conceive, design, market and manufacture - and a labor force
that is constantly able to keep learning. We can't go on lagging other major
economies in every math/science/reading test and every ranking of Internet
penetration and think that we're going to field a work force able to command
premium wages. Freedom, without rigor and competence, will take us only so far.
Tomorrow, Mr. Tucker's organization is coming out with a report titled
"Tough Choices or Tough Times," which proposes a radical overhaul of
the U.S. education system, with one goal in mind: producing more workers - from
the U.P.S. driver to the software engineer - who can think creatively.
"One thing we know about creativity is that it typically occurs when
people who have mastered two or more quite different fields use the framework
in one to think afresh about the other," said Mr. Tucker. Thus, his report
focuses on "how to make that kind of thinking integral to every level of
education."
That means, he adds, revamping an education system designed in the 1900s for
people to do "routine work," and refocusing it on producing people
who can imagine things that have never been available before, who can create
ingenious marketing and sales campaigns, write books, build furniture, make
movies and design software "that will capture people's imaginations and
become indispensable for millions."
That can't be done without higher levels of reading, writing, speaking, math,
science, literature and the arts. We have no choice, argues Mr. Tucker, because
we have entered an era in which "comfort with ideas and abstractions is
the passport to a good job, in which creativity and innovation are the key to
the good life" and in which the constant ability to learn how to learn
will be the only security you have.
Economics is not like war. It can be win-win. We, China, India and Europe can
all flourish. But the ones who flourish most will be those who develop the best
broad-based education system, to have the most people doing and designing the
most things we can't even imagine today. China still has to make some very big
changes to get there - but so do we.
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John M. Eger
Van Deerlin Chair of Communication and Public Policy
Executive Director, International Center for Communications
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive
PFSA 160
San Diego, CA
92182-4522
telephone 6195946910
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