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Show Creativity Like a 7 Year Old
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso
Darya Zabelina and Michael Robinson of North Dakota State University conducted research based on this principle and showed that with the responsibilities and constraints of adulthood, the playfulness and curiosity of childhood can sometimes get lost [...]
Educational Mashups Part four: creativity boosts from the wise
In this fourth part of Educational Mashups (see 1, 2 and part 3 here) we’re looking at a range of ideas from a cross-section of industries which can encourage us to become even more creative, or if the worst case scenario has already kicked in, break that dreaded writer’s or thinking bloc.
Take a Mini Retirement?
The [...]
Musings on Creativity in Teaching (Part 2: Lessons from Bananarama and Depeche Mode)
An argument in favour of teachers becoming more expert in the art of Learning and Teaching as a way of increasing creativity.
Read more »Ideas for Encouraging Collaboration and Creativity Part I: how to collaborate virtually
How to collaborate virtually
If you are working in different geographical areas and struggle to meet regularly then you need to find easy yet effective solutions to ensure that your collaboration does not suffer. Also, these ideas work well if you simply wish to kick-start the collaboration before meeting. Here follows a series if ideas that [...]
Master of Puppets
I had the pleasure of meeting the educational officer of a local puppet theater the other day and it got me thinking about the power of active and ‘hands-on’ learning as well as the opportunity for pupils to consider both the finer details and the bigger picture no matter the subject or topic. There are [...]
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