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A Hungarian psychology professor once wrote to famous creators asking them to be interviewed for a book he was writing. One of the most inte…
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There are some good lines in this brief article, including "There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes". Enjoy. Thanks Vicky Jo Varner for the link. Delete the scoop?
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... A popular choice for people who are on the go is online educational courses. Not only can you make your own schedule, but you don't have to get out of your pajamas to take your algebra class. But online education isn't for everyone. This infographic looks over the pros and cons ... http://www.scoop.it/t/easy-mooc Via Lucas Gruez Delete the scoop?
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Need a burst of inspiration? Wildly creative thinkers share ideas, strategies and warmhearted encouragement to let your genius out. Via Douglas Eby
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Likely there are many sources for inspiration, and, tellingly, all these presentations have something to offer when you open your mind to consider new ideas, aim for new decisions and take new actions. Enjoy! Delete the scoop?
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A history of xMOOCs and cMOOCs (or collectivist MOOCs) with a review of two of the xMOOC providers and advice on how to choose between them. Via Susan Bainbridge
Marci Segal, MS's insight:
A good intro to MOOC's. Next best thing in education? 
Sérgio Lagoa's curator insight,
May 4, 11:16 AM
http://www.openuped.eu/courses/details/1/10 
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May 4, 2:40 PM
perhaps not the "ultimate" but a good short introduction Delete the scoop?
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Editors’ note: The following is an adapted excerpt of InGenius (Harper One) by Tina Seelig.What is the sum of 5 plus 5?”“What two numbers add up to 10?
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Nice piece on shifting perspectives. Delete the scoop?
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Here's primer on the identification and description of the population cohorts in America as currently widely (but not universally) agreed upon by demographers and market researchers.
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Always good to review the uniqueness of generational cohorts
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There are many practical implications of these findings. The results suggest that people and objects in the real world may unconsciously affect our cognition by triggering a global or local processing style.
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Your creative output may be enhanced by first priming yourself with a mixture of sensory stimuli. Thanks to John Cabra for this link.
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Use color to your advantage across all of your marketing channels to improve brand awareness and drive purchasing.
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What a fun piece to broaden thinking. Do you believe the colour-emotion associations?
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An interesting 70 year old book is gaining popularity again in the creativity and innovation fields.
Marci Segal, MS's insight:
Great reminders, reviewing this post could give you an important insight ..:-) 
Phillip Newsome's comment,
April 23, 2:48 PM
An important reminder to let IDEAS lead, not the channels they ride on
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Design Thinking is a mindset. Design Thinking is the confidence that everyone can be part of creating a more desirable future, and a process to take action when faced with a difficult challenge. That kind of optimism is well needed in education. Delete the scoop?
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Offer of free articles for World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21. Delete the scoop?
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Do you remember how much you felt and thought as a child? Probably a lot, especially if you were gifted and creative. As an adult, we may have learned to cover up or set aside much of our inner life, in order to get along with others and do our jobs.
But if we want to be more fully alive and creative, it can really help to understand and stay in charge of our thinking and feelings. Via Douglas Eby
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What if, eh? Wouldn't it be nice to take people's emotions into account when leading them through creative process? Wouldn't it be great if people could deliberately springboard from their emotions to inform their creative process and manage their expectations/experience? Delete the scoop?
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Forget Myers-Briggs. A study out of BI Norwegian Business School has determined the signposts of a "creative" personality. Conducted by Professor Øyvind L. Martinsen, the study posed 200 questions to 481 people.
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Amazes me that people continue to beleive that some people are creative while others are not. What's the benefit of that, eh? In any case, an interesting article to peruse and consider. Your thoughts? Delete the scoop?
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The pedagogical foundations of massive open online courses
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Very helpful. Insights into the what,why and outcomes for MOOC's. Delete the scoop?
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Are MOOCs losing their original worthy goals? I think the current xMOOCs are doubled edged swords. Either way would cut into the flesh of Higher Education. http://www.scoop.it/t/easy-mooc Via Lucas Gruez Delete the scoop?
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The average completion rate for massive open online courses is less than 7 per cent, according to data compiled by an Open University doctoral student as part of her own Mooc studies... http://www.scoop.it/t/easy-mooc Via Lucas Gruez Delete the scoop?
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Fiona Milburn: "As a creative practitioner, you're probably familiar with twitter as a key social media platform for marketing your projects to today’s internet-savvy audiences.But did you know it’s also a great storytelling tool?" Via The Digital Rocking Chair
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Educators using twitter with students? Ya think? 
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May 5, 3:30 AM
This is an interesting concept. Hope it doesn't become a fad, though. Delete the scoop?
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Laura Ingalls Wilder was 65 years old when she started writing the Little House on the Prairie series.
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you betcha! 
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May 10, 10:58 PM
Related post: Does Creativity Have An Expiration Date? At 96 Martha Graham premiered her work The Maple Leaf Rag. Sidney Sheldon wrote his last novel at about age 87. Edward Albee won a Tony award for a new play in 2002, at age 75. http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2012/10/does-creativity-have-an-expiration-date/ Delete the scoop?
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Your brain is like a quilt: Experiences are threaded together and new ideas come from what you already know. Here's how to move the process...
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A good reminder about the importance of off-site locations for strategy planning and creative foresight sessions
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In partnership with the Motion Picture Association of America and Microsoft, TIME polled Americans about the role of creativity in the workplace, in schools and in government.
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Do these stats surprise you?
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Should we be teaching our to kids code? Hell yea! How do I know? I’m a teacher and I see much of the present curriculum just plain tedious, rote memorization. I also have witnessed the decline in creativity in the classroom, year after year it is whittled away. Not much left today, and even teachers who value it above all else, have had the wind blown out of their sails." Via John Evans
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Reading, writing, 'rithmetic, code Makes sense to me. 
M Labelle-Fisch's curator insight,
April 22, 7:04 AM
teachingYet aching students to code means teachers need to learn...or learn to get out of the way and facilitate.
Keetah Brough's comment,
April 26, 9:18 AM
no. if we've stopped teaching long division i definitely code is about as obsolete unless one wants to take it.
Ken Ronkowitz's comment,
April 26, 10:55 AM
coding teaches a lot about critical thinking, logic and the beautiful economy of clean code. but teaching it because you think you are creating coders is useless.
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A bit like an IQ test measures intelligence, the Torrance Test and others like it measure creative ability. Delete the scoop?
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Learning strategies can predict achievement above and beyond IQ test performance. Delete the scoop?
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TWEET THAT CLASS: We slipped into a talk at the Palo Alto
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Says Thrun "I believe that 50 years from now, education will be as short and sweet as Twitter is today. It will be like an evening talk. And that will be a fantastic moment." Delete the scoop?
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Stanford's Lytics Lab gathers data from massive open online courses to learn more about how we learn. The group studies student behavior to measure interaction and performance. Via Susan Bainbridge
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Good to have a peek inside what's going on, eh? Ready to take the plunge? 
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April 11, 7:54 PM
Without scanning the whole article, what do you think we can do to dive deeper into use patterns? That is, how can we go deeper than what is mentioned in this quote:
"They found that people take classes or stop for different reasons, and therefore referring globally to "dropouts" makes no sense in the online context. They identified four groups of participants: those who completed most assignments, those who audited, those who gradually disengaged and those who sporadically sampled. (Most students who sign up never actually show up, making their inclusion in the data problematic.) The point of all this is not simply to record who is doing what but to "provide educators, instructional designers and platform developers with insights for designing effective and potentially adaptive learning environments that best meet the needs of MOOC participants," the researchers wrote." Delete the scoop?
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Seeing things in different ways and making connections between separate things are two elements of creative thinking. How do you score in these two?
Tips on how to light your creative fire
Let the #creativity flow, baby!