By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Sir Ken Robinson: ‘Creative’ with the truth?
Donald Clark, Donald Clark Plan B, 2015/04/08
Ken Robinson's video on creativity is cited over and over again and was long overdue for this takedown by Donald Clark. It's the classic response: Robinson's observations and anecdotes are (a) not new, (b) not backed by data, (c) except data he has made up, and (d) are false. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Creativity and ingenuity know no bounds at UofTHack
Ashley Huffman, ITBusiness, 2015/02/09
It's not really online learning, but it is learning with technology, and the experience-oriented and project-based approach is one I enthusiastically support. More...
By Scott Jaschik. By some measures -- Nobel Prizes over time, graduate programs the best students globally aspire to be part of -- American science is the envy of the world. But Roberta A. Ness sees an erosion of excellence. In The Creativity Crisis: Reinventing Science to Unleash Possibility (Oxford University Press), Ness argues that American science has become too risk averse and that frugal federal agencies and university politics and policies combine in ways that discourage breakthrough discoveries. Read more...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?”
Isaac Asimov, MIT Technology review, 2014/10/24
Isaac Asimov was very influential on me ion my youth, and I read many of the dozens and dozens of books he authored. This essay is a previously unpublished article he wrote on creativity, and it is not surprising to see the affinity between my own thought and what he wrote. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. This poster explains Creative Commons for the rest of us
Sean Connor, Saylor Blog, Aug 06, 2014
This is interesting, not simply because it explains Creative Commons for non-technical people, but because it changes the thrust of the message from what you can't do to what you can do. More...
By John Calhoun. The latest fad in American higher education is the teaching of creativity. Recent articles applauding the study of creativity have appeared in The Economist, The New York Times, and many other news sources. Buffalo State College and Eastern Kentucky University have made names for themselves with courses like “Introduction to Creative Studies” and “Creativity, Innovation, and Change.”
The popularity of creativity studies stems in large part from anxieties about the long-term health of America’s economy. More...
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