Tag Archives: Educational psychology

Why Innovation Needs Outsiders and Fresh Ideas

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When we’re stuck on a hard problem, we go seek out a superior. It seems like common sense. It’s something that is imbued into us from childhood and into adulthood. When you can’t solve that math...

How Creativity is Enhanced by Technology

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I recently wrote a post about how marketers will need to learn to rely less on judgment and intuition in the era of big data.  It’s a controversial subject, especially since many marketers pride...

Talk Outside the Box

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Our imaginations are limited by our experience; our routine; our habitual ways of working, thinking, and dreaming. This isn’t intended to be dispiriting news. But it is weighty news worth serious...
    






Sick Of Sports: Why Rock Bands Are A Better Metaphor For Work Teams

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Sports teams are the canonical metaphor for teamwork. We try to “pick winners” to score “slam dunks.” Team leaders “coach” team members and then “send in heavy hitters” who “step up to the plate”...
    






Multimillion-Pound Brain Fund Set Up To Stop Teachers Buying Into Neuroscience Myths

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Neuroscience is full of urban myths that have latched on to the collective consciousness and stuck there. It’s not just the obvious ones like the old saw that “humans only use ten per cent of their...
    






Little Changes Matter A Lot–And Other Innovation Lessons From LEGOs

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You can do far more with what you’ve got than you realize. And innovation is easier than you can imagine. Consider a LEGO brick. How many combinations do you think you can create from just six...
    






Lessons From the CEO Of The First Ever MOOC

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There has been much press for the massive open online courses or MOOCs, including in my series of interviews to date with Sebastian Thrun and Daphne Koller, CEOs of Udacity and Coursera respectively...
    






Drake Baer: How To Create A Sustainable Culture Of Innovation

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I spoke to Drake Baer, who is a contributing writer at Fast Company and co-author of the upcoming book “Everything Connects: How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation, and...
    






To Foster Your Creativity, Don’t Learn To Code; Learn To Paint

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Earlier this month, Samuel Arbesman argued in Wired that the world needs more generalists, dabblers and polymaths. He notes (and he’s certainly not the first to note) that the body of scientific and...