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  • Steve Ransom on 13 Jun 14
     
    Stephen Downes expands on 8 Ideas That Will Permanently Break Education As We Know It... important shifts to recognize and reconcile.
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    Great post by Pam Moran to share with your administrators!
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  • “It says: ‘This person is not a drone. They can use this skill set and apply themselves in other parts of the job.’ ”
  • everyone is creative, and can learn to be more so.
  • clarifying, ideating, developing and implementing
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  • freshman seminar course at Penn State that he calls “Failure 101.”
  • “the frequency and intensity of failures is an implicit principle of the course. Getting into a creative mind-set involves a lot of trial and error.”
  • “As soon as someone in the class starts breaking the sticks,” he says, “it changes everything.”
  • “Examine what in the culture is preventing you from creating something new or different. And what is it like to look like a fool because a lot of things won’t work out and you will look foolish? So how do you handle that?”
  • be willing to fail but that failure is a critical avenue to a successful end.
  • Because academics run from failure, Mr. Keywell says, universities are “way too often shapers of formulaic minds,” and encourage students to repeat and internalize fail-safe ideas.
  • When ideas from different fields collide, Dr. Cramond says, fresh ones are generated.
  • rephrasing problems as questions, learning not to instinctively shoot down a new idea (first find three positives), and categorizing problems as needing a solution that requires either action, planning or invention. A key objective is to get students to look around with fresh eyes and be curious. The inventive process, she says, starts with “How might you…”
  • “A lot of people can’t deal with things they don’t know and they panic
  • make creativity happen instead of waiting for it to bubble up. A muse doesn’t have to hit you.”
  • Steve Ransom on 06 Feb 14
     
    Great article that has many applications to the classroom at all levels!
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