Teacherscribe’s
Teaching Tip #14
This generation is also great at thinking outside of the
box. Because of the digital tools they
have been raised with, they excel at what Thomas Friedman calls “creative
mixing.” They can take one idea and
apply it to a totally different area to create something that never existed
before.
Friedman gives an example of this from one of his talks at
MIT. To illustrate the concept of
“creative mixing,” Friedman, who writes for the New York Times, said to the MIT
students that the Times has given him permission to accept resumes from them
because the Times is looking for engineers.
However, Friedman warns that they shouldn’t think of applying if they
don’t read at least three old-school newspapers a day. Why?
The Times can easily outsource engineering talent from India at a
fraction of the cost of what American engineers cost. What the Times is really looking for – and
really needs – is someone who can take their engineering expertise and apply it
to the newspaper industry so that they create something that has never been
created before.
And that is what this generation excels at. Or at least according to Elmore.
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