Process of Innovation : PBS LearningMedia

Overview

Innovation 101 is a unique and dynamic digital educational module that uses oral history interviews of some of America's iconic innovators (past and present) from The Henry Ford's OnInnovation website for active teaching and learning. It is designed to be an introductory module that can be used by schoolteachers, youth service providers, instructors in colleges and universities as well as trainers in a corporate setting. The content actively engages participants in critical 21st-century skills development such as critical thinking, problem solving and creativity fueling self-directed learning and digital literacy. Supporting work sheets, glossaries of terms, inspiring quotes and project ideas offer an unduplicated learning opportunity for the teacher and the participant.
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Tinkerer: Steve Wozniak - Accidents Led to Innovation

Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak (born August 11, 1950 in San Jose, California) is an American computer engineer, and the co-founder of Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.), with Steve Jobs. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing greatly to the personal computer revolution of the 1970s. Wozniak created the Apple I and Apple II computers in the mid-1970s. The Apple II gained a sizable amount of popularity, eventually becoming one of the best selling personal computers of the 1970s and early 1980s. Wozniak has several nicknames, including "The Woz", "Wonderful Wizard of Woz" and "iWoz" (a reference to the ubiquitous naming scheme for Apple products). "WoZ" (short for "Wheels of Zeus") is also the name of a company Wozniak founded. He is known for his introverted character, and he finds his level of celebrity somewhat annoying. He is also known as the "Other Steve" of Apple Computer, the better known Steve being co-founder and past CEO, Steve Jobs.
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Methodical: Don Chadwick, Product Designer - What Is Design?

When Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf designed the Aeron Chair for the furniture manufacturer Herman Miller, they started from a purely personal standpoint. They set aside other styles and traditions and asked the simple question, "What would I most like to sit on?" A complete mastery of the furniture designer's tools and craft enabled them to arrive at the answer. Chadwick approaches furniture design as a serious, highly personal and involved endeavor. He also speaks of the need for a deep love of one's work. From the time he learned the tools of the trade from his cabinetmaker grandfather to his early professional days in Los Angeles inspired by designers Charles and Ray Eames, Chadwick has understood that furniture design offered not only rich new creative horizons but also a chance to make a real difference in people's lives.
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William McDonough: Definition of Innovation

A leader in the field of sustainable design, William McDonough creates strategies for "environmentally intelligent" buildings. His constructions incorporate nature into design and feature daylight, fresh air, diversity, life, and creativity. McDonough's designs have helped shape environmental and manufacturing policy. His work and his writings are influencing a new industrial revolution, one that relies on a mutual relationship with the biological world.
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Steve Wozniak: Hiring the Right People

Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak (born August 11, 1950 in San Jose, California) is an American computer engineer, and the co-founder of Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.), with Steve Jobs. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing greatly to the personal computer revolution of the 1970s. Wozniak created the Apple I and Apple II computers in the mid-1970s. The Apple II gained a sizable amount of popularity, eventually becoming one of the best selling personal computers of the 1970s and early 1980s. Wozniak has several nicknames, including "The Woz", "Wonderful Wizard of Woz" and "iWoz" (a reference to the ubiquitous naming scheme for Apple products.) "WoZ" (short for "Wheels of Zeus") is also the name of a company Wozniak founded. He is known for his introverted character, and he finds his level of celebrity somewhat annoying. He is also known as the "Other Steve" of Apple Computer, the better known Steve being co-founder and past CEO, Steve Jobs.
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Toshiko Mori: How Does Innovation Happen?

Throughout her career as a practicing architect and educator, Toshiko Mori has pursued a technical interest in the properties of materials, and especially synthetic materials, in addition to her concerns for purity of line, visual lightness and thermal performance. As an architect, Toshiko Mori has always taken a personal delight in discovering new properties and potentials in materials. Whether designing exhibitions, houses or institutional projects such as the Visitor Center for Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, New York, she enjoys a process that combines intuition with the rigor of research.

Process of Innovation

Overview

Tinkerer: Steve Wozniak - Accidents Led to Innovation

Methodical: Don Chadwick, Product Designer - What Is Design?

William McDonough: Definition of Innovation

Steve Wozniak: Hiring the Right People

Toshiko Mori: How Does Innovation Happen?

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