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What impact does primary education have on how someone turns out?
‘They came really close to beating any creativity out of me’. says Steve Jobs of his primary education. Ahe had parents who listened, struggled, even moved house to get him a better start. what’s your...
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Working with dreams
This from B822 Creativity, Innovation and Change which ended in April. Several reasons why as a technique it is out of the reach if most of us and impractical as a management tool. a) What good is it...
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Creative Technique: Working with Dreams and/or Keeping a Dream Diary
This from B822 Creativity, Innovation and Change which ended in April. Several reasons why as a technique it is out of the reach if most of us and impractical as a management tool. a) What good is it...
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Over 1,000 posts on e-learning and creativity
This is what I write about so this is what readers will find: e-learning, learning, creativity, training, L&D and learning development. The Open University in the UK appears for a couple of...
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Reflections on memory creation and expressions of digital and analogue memory
Fig. 1. Shadows below the Fredikson-Stallard installation ‘Pandora’ with additional Neon EFX Fredrikson Stallard piece for the Digital Memory Gallery sponsored by Swarovski called ‘Pandora’ is a...
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Creativity is improvisation … Edmund de Waal on pots, netsuke, writing and...
Fig 1. Pots, Writing, Music and on being a Smarty Pants Listen to it for yourself. What intrigued me where his thoughts on the creative process. Edmund de Waal Desert Island Discs...
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When did you last stumble upon such words of encouragement?
Is Fig.1. Words of encouragement Isn’t this all that we need? Someone who believes? (On the inside of a folder of ’creative writing’ from my teens – short stories, a novel, a TV screenplay, poems and...
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What is learning design?
Learning design, indeed any design, is about problem solving. If there isn’t a problem there is nothing to do. No need to create learning, to advertise, to change, to brainstorm … recognise the...
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Working with dreams : e-learning and the unconscious
Fig. 1. A mash-up in Picasa of a 3D laser generated image generated at the Design Museum during their ‘Digital Crystal’ exhibition. The image exists and is transformed by the presence of the observer...
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The communismization of knowledge and Open Educational Resources
Fig.1. I like spirals. Thirty years ago this was just a photo. For me it is an expression of what learning looks like. (I think this is St.John’s College, Boat House – or is it Balliol?) At the base...
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Three reasons to revitalise, reinvent and revolutionise education
Ken Robinson: On education … and a fix for the huge drop-out rate in American Schools. An excellent TED lecture. Worth taking notes. These are mine. Offered by fellow student Marshall Anderson on the...
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Networks, Groups and Sets
Fig.1. My groups, sets, nets and collectives … based on an article (unpublished 2014) by Dron & Anderson. Groups: Any OU Tutor group – you are put in it, you don’t, in an informed way, form a...
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Three reasons to revitalise, reinvent and revolutionise education
Fig. 1, Ken Robinson: On education … and a fix for the huge drop-out rate in American Schools. An excellent TED lecture. Worth taking notes. These are mine. Offered by fellow student Marshall Anderson...
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How insight and creativity works – towards a theory of creativity
Why are we insightful? What is going on in the brain when we have a flash of insight? Horizon on the Brain looks at: Insight Divergent thinking Improvisation Unusual and unexpected experiences Schema...
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What will you look like twenty years from now? Try the App.
Fig.1 JV 2013-2033 – from one niece’s wedding. We’ll see. My father died young age 71 so I’m less sure I’ll make it to 73. Then again my grandfather made it to 96 … the other to 61 or something. I...
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