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Author Archives: knlistman
Teaching academics like athletics?
Sometimes students wish academic classes were more like performance based sports, but how would it work? How do they respond differently to coaching for physical skill versus teaching a cognitive skill? Warm ups In athletics students spend time warming up … Continue reading
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Tagged attentiveness, coaching, effort, instruction, performance, teaching
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Living in a “weed-out” world
The move to on-line degrees in higher education has been occurring since the beginning of the twenty first century and predictions abound that this will happen for almost all college courses, by the time the pandemic subsides. Currently e-learning is … Continue reading
Group IQ
One of the tricks in getting groups to be more creative is tohave a hand in determining who goes into the group. A number of gurus on increasing group creativity will mention the need for greater diversity in groups. How … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Education trends
Tagged diversity in teams, Group creativity, group IQ, negativity and creativity
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Stuck in a group
The concept of group synergy, the belief that combined abilities of people in groups produces better ideas than individuals is often praised. However, most research points in the opposite direction. Suppose your assignment is to work with a group to … Continue reading
Sweet solitude
Does group work encourage creativity? Not according to the art and writing instructors that I surveyed determine which classroom environments induced creativity. Encouraging students to work in groups is suppose to improve creativity, but most instructors observed the opposite result. … Continue reading
Mentors and money
In the epic poem the Iliad, Telemachus father Odysseus was absent twenty years; first at war and then wandering on his long route home. Meanwhile his Telemachus grew to an adulthood without a father. Having pity on the youth, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Iliad, masters in creative fields, mentor, science, selecting mentor, socialization, Writing
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Wanted mentors: Dead or Alive
In the city of Florence, Italy stands the cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore with a massive brick dome, a masterpiece in its day, built without the wooden framework required to hold up a dome while the mortar dried. Yet, it … Continue reading
What kind of childhood?
According to a review on the childhood of exceptionally creative individuals–“The growth of creativity in a young person suggests the effects of powerful nurturing and support” (Piers 2000). But what this research suggests does not occur most of the time. … Continue reading
Beyond Self-Confidence
Now that innovation is essential to business, the educational institutions are attempting to encourage rather than quash creativity. With the revival of creativity as a money-making traits comes the recurring discussion of the how difficult creative people are. So what … Continue reading
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