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Posts Tagged → creativity
Creative Thinking
Last Wednesday was World Creativity and Innovation Day, designated by the United Nations “to raise the awareness of the role of creativity and innovation in all aspects of human development”. Nice, but maybe something like that deserves more than one day.
Reversing The Creativity Crisis
Do We Really Want Students to be Creative?
A recent column in EdWeek asks a question that seems to come up rather frequently: Can Schools Teach Students to Innovate?. Which is basically the same as asking whether we can teach kids creativity, design thinking, entrepreneurship, or any number of other synonyms for open-ended thinking.
All these “skills” are in demand, right? Well, at least they’re popular in polls that ask about such things.
Listen To This
Three podcast episodes I heard this past weekend that you might like…
Related to my recent rant concerning creativity as a skill, a segment of Freakonomics asked Where Do Good Ideas Come From? (61:34) The host spoke with a scientist, a graphic designer, a museum curator, James Dyson (of vacuum cleaner fame), and others about their creative process.
This is the third part in their series titled How To Be Creative and part two is also good, asking Why Do Schools Kill It Off?
Another podcast segment was also part three of a series, this one from Planet Money and dealing with the issue of antitrust (23:56). Specifically this segment discusses whether the size and reach of huge companies like Amazon “is a threat to competition, and ultimately to consumers”.
As with every segment of Planet Money, they do an excellent job of making a complex issue both interesting and even entertaining.
Finally is the first episode of a new podcast from the news site Quartz called Should This Exist? (33:36). Each segment looks at the promise of a new technology, along with the possible negative impact on both the user and society.
The first invention certainly fits the criteria: Halo is a headset that is supposed to stimulate the brain and help the wearer learn “as fast as a kid”. As they say, what could possibly go wrong?
My only criticism of the segment is that I don’t think the host challenged the inventor enough, especially on the potential ethical issues. But the premise of the podcast sounds like it will be worth at least a few more listens.