Posts Tagged by creativity
Creativity comes from the spaces
| 29 May 2013 | Posted by Donn King under Communication, Education, Thoughts |
Earlier today, my computer was acting weird, so I decided to reboot it. Rather than simply restarting it, though, I shut it all the way down. This is probably the first time it has been completely shut down in a month. I’m one of those folks who tends to just shut the lid and let…
Fostering creativity
| 27 February 2011 | Posted by Donn King under Buccaneering, Miscellany, Thoughts |
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A little earlier I posted an article about the creativity crisis covered by Newsweek. They also posted a good practical article on fostering creativity called Forget Brainstorming. Here’s a summary of their points: Don’t tell someone to “be creative.” Get moving. Engage in aerobic activity regularly. Take a break. This isn’t about stopping so much…
Drop in creativity documented
| 26 February 2011 | Posted by Donn King under Buccaneering, Employment, Miscellany, Thoughts |
Read between the lines of Newsweek’s report The Creativity Crisis, and you are likely to pick up the idea that America’s declining educational effectiveness stems, at least in part, from misguided federally-imposed standards. The average person thinks “art” in its various forms when you say “creativity,” but as this article points out, creativity is much,…
You must be willing to create crap…
| 19 February 2011 | Posted by Donn King under Buccaneering, Communication, Education, Journalism |
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…in order to find the good stuff. That’s sort of what Anne Lamott advised in her book Bird by Bird. One of her chapters was titled pretty much that (using a stronger term than crap). Daniel Pink posits a similar idea in his piece entitled Why you should come up with at least 1 bad…
Author/speaker says schools kill creativity
| 4 November 2009 | Posted by Donn King under Education, Technology and learning, Thoughts |
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This isn’t a new video, but it’s new to me, and has been getting a lot of attention in recent years. Sir Ken Robinson, a very entertaining speaker, makes solid points about the nature of the public education system and what needs to change about it. Take a look at “Ken Robinson says schools kill…
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