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Jason Finley

Correcting Creativity: The Struggle for Eminence - 2 views

blogs.scientificamerican.com/...vity-the-struggle-for-eminence

Creativity Howard_Gardner

shared by Jason Finley on 05 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Jason Finley on 05 Oct 12
     
    "Generating a good idea isn't reading a 'top-ten ways to boost your creativity' article…it is like delivering and nurturing a child.'We must constantly give birth to our thoughts out of our pain and maternally endow them with all we have of blood, heart, fire, pleasure, passion, agony, conscience, fate, and disaster.'"
  • Jason Finley on 05 Oct 12
     
    "...Gardner's foremost conclusion is uncontroversial: creative breakthroughs in any domain require strenuous work and a willingness to challenge the establishment."
Jason Finley

Unleashing Potential, Harnessing Possibilities - 2 views

www.ocdsb.ca/...alharnessingPossibilities.aspx

Innovation creativity schoolculture

shared by Jason Finley on 18 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Jason Finley on 18 Oct 12
     
    Action research paper that shares finding in how to "...understand creativity, innovation and critical thinking, and the conditions that allow these to flourish."
  • Jason Finley on 18 Oct 12
     
    Within the "Report at a Glance" is a section labeled "Our Guiding Principles of Creative Leadership" that really is how I see the future of professional development...with a focus towards bottom up innovation rather than top down initiatives. To foster Innovation and Creativity, to really encourage a healthy school Culture, Professional Development needs to be Supported rather than Provided.
Jesse McLean

Katherine von Jan: Pursue Passion: Demand Google 20% Time at School - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...tured-classroom_b_1024404.html

google 20% time passion

shared by Jesse McLean on 03 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Ever wonder why students struggle with picking a major in college? When was the last time students were asked what they'd like to study in school and given the time to pursue their own interests?
  • As a result 50% of all Google's products by 2009 originated from the 20% free time, including Gmail.
  • Real break-through happens when we are free from others' expectations and driven by individual passion.
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  • What we can take from these examples is that the work outside of the expected, commissioned work produces the most creative, awesome discoveries, and some silly ones that are just fun by-products of the passion-driven journey. Commissioned work just delivers expected, rote outcomes.
  • Rather than scripting our K-12 experience -- and expecting miracles when we get to college that we'll suddenly have clarity about our interests -- we have to start asking students what turns them on earlier, and enable them to pursue those interests. For example, if a child is inspired by bridges, why not start there and let the learning follow their curiosity? They may need to learn calculus to build a bridge, but then they have a reason to love and seek calculus, rather than calculus being a requirement. They may need to understand the history, policy and politics of getting a bridge approved. Or team-building to get all the right talent on board.
  • Jesse McLean on 03 Apr 13
     
    "Ever wonder why students struggle with picking a major in college? When was the last time students were asked what they'd like to study in school and given the time to pursue their own interests?"
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