Editor’s note: So this is what stifles creativity in school children (according to the children themselves). I thought this would look remarkably similar to a list created by adults.
Editor’s note: Great ideas for Steve Wheeler which could provoke some useful workplace learning ideas too.
Editor’s note: A look at the neural networks at play in the creative process. A must read if you are interested in creativity.
Editor’s note: Some great insights here into how to manage creativity from one of ad land’s legends.
Editor’s note: A good article on creativity. The title makes it sound like a rant against the UK education secretary, which it is not.
Editor’s note: A review of the book Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordon MacKenzie, which looks at how corporate America sucks out the creative juices we all had when we were kids.
Editor’s note: An interview with Alex Watson, a senior manager for Lloyds Register in London and lead singer of soul group Bastedo. Where does music and business cross over and what can they learn from each other?
Editor’s note: Researchers show that inhibiting the prefrontal cortex – the brain’s thought ‘filter’ can lead to more creativity.
Editor’s note: How connections between basic survival functions, social and emotional reactions to the world, and creative impulses impact learning.
Editor’s notes: Some great insights here from the inventor of the telephone.
Editor’s note: Dr Anne Marie McEwan takes an excerpt from here book Smart Working: Creating the Next Wave to look at the role of technology for creative pollination in the workplace.
Editor’s note: Professor Mike West on team creativity and his research into positivity in teams, especially teams in the UK’s National Health Service.
Editor’s note: 10 words beginning with C that should be at the heart of all L&D activity – compiled by Mike Collins.
Editor’s note: When neuroscience meets rapping we find out how the brain ‘behaves’ to enable rappers to create freestyle raps. An interesting look into the world of spontaneous creative behaviour. Thanks to Mike Collins for sharing this link.
Editor’s note: is workplace design the number one factor in sparking creative interactions? Probably not, says Scott Berkun. It is a factor but what of all the other places that have given us our greatest ideas?