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People get so consumed with putting out fires and chasing short-term targets that most can’t even think about the future

hat’s why iconic brands like 3M and Google give their employees about 10% “free time” to experiment with new ideas.

Use a creativity model.  The Osborne-Parnes model is oldest, widely accepted model.  It is often used in education and business improvement. Each step involves a divergent thinking pattern to challenge ideas, and then convergent thinking to narrow down exploration. It has six steps: Mess-finding. Identify a goal or objective. Fact-finding. Gathering data. Problem-finding. Clarifying the problem Idea-finding. Generating ideas Solution-finding. Strengthening & evaluating ideas Acceptance-finding. Plan of action for Implementing ideas Consider how classroom assignments use divergent and convergent thinking.  Standardized tests do a great job of measuring convergent thinking that includes analytical thinking or logical answers with one correct response.  Divergent thinking considers how a learner can use different ways to approach a problem.  It requires using association and multiplicity of thought.  We should design assingments that consider both types of thinking models.