CREATIVE

CITIES Dr. Kevin Stolarick

Oct. 13, 2011

CREATIVE

CITIES

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Standard Timing

(revised)

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Time

3:10-3:15 3:15-3:20 3:20-3:30 3:30-3:35 3:35-4:00 4:00-4:10 4:10-5:00

Activity

Quiz Peer Grading Group Discussion Questions/Answers Announce Selected Question to Class Discuss Questions in Class Break Discuss Questions in Class

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Quiz Seating

Front of Room 1 2

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Quiz Questions

CREATIVE

CITIES 1. The skill clusters identified are

analytical

,

physical

, and what?

2. Name one of the city cluster types that is associated with higher productivity and income.

3. In

Ontario in the Creative Age,

Ontario must harness the

what

of all Ontarians?

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Grading Process

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CITIES • • • • Switch within group (#) – – NOT each other All pass left or right “Graded By” Quiz Answers – 2 points completely correct – – 1 point “mostly” correct 4 points for reasonable exam question Total Score Upper Left

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Quiz Answers

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CITIES 1. The skill clusters identified are analytical, physical, and what?



Social Intelligence

2. Name one of the city cluster types that is associated with higher productivity and income.



Engineering, Building, Enterprising, or Making

3. In

Ontario in the Creative Age,

Ontario must harness the

what

of all Ontarians?



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Pick Your Favourite Question

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Within your group CITIES Discuss each question Pick group’s favourite – Your selection makes it eligible for use – Mark with a big star Person never announced before – Announce selected question Turn in all cards before break

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Break

10 Minutes

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Selected Questions

And Answers

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Selected Questions

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CITIES • • • From “Ontario in the Creative Age”, explain the phrase “the rise of creativity is a double edged sword”.

Why has Ontario fallen behind its peers in terms of talent and technology?

What is the challenge for economies in the creative age and what are some of the policies that should be undertaken.

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Selected Questions

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CITIES • Give three examples of occupations which require both high analytical and social skill levels.

• What are the three broad skill types and how are they related to region size, wage, and productivity?

• Explain the concept of the mega-region and why this new type of “spatial fix” makes investment in infrastructure so important.

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Selected Questions

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CITIES • • What are the four sets of actions needed to drive economic growth in Ontario as described in “Ontario in the Creative Age”?

Why can’t you measure creativity through education? What are the implications?

• Explain why having analytical and social intelligence skills is preferable to physical skills and provide examples of occupations that require those first two skill types.

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Selected Questions

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CITIES • According to Gabe, Abel, et al., clustering in certain occupational sectors has a positive correlation to earnings while in other sectors clustering has a negative correlation with earnings. What reasons to they give for the phenomenon? What other factors might be involved?

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