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Imagine that!- Childhood Collecting: A Neglected Connection between Playing and LearningYou don’t hear much about collecting in school now-a-days. But a century ago psychologists and educators took the collecting habit in children seriously – and pondered how to use it to advantage in the classroom. read more […]
- Gifted and Talented People (and Programs) Need Help!Many people believe that talent will out, that gifted students are invariably mature, motivated and focused enough to develop on their own. No way!read more […]
- The Empathizing Dilemma, or Confessions of the Eagle-Cam AddictLike many thousands of people, this spring we found ourselves obsessively watching a pair of eagles raise their young. Responding emotionally to the trials and tribulations of eagle life, we found ourselves smack dab in the middle of the empathizing dilemma.read more […]
- The Collection Connection to CreativityDo you collect anything? Coins? Stamps? Butterflies? Art? Fine wines? Could your hobby potentially make you more creative? read more […]
- Teaching the Creative ProcessCreativity is not a “you have it” or “you don’t” kind of thing. It isn’t a personality trait. It’s not a “one size fits all” habit of mind. It’s not, simply, a set of skills to test for or a roster of art classes. So what’s a society to do? Especially one committed to constant innovation? read more […]
- Do Arts Teach Creativity?Massachusetts and California want to mandate teaching creativity and testing for its outcomes. Maybe your state does, too. In our last post we challenged whether creativity can be taught. In this one, we challenge the measures these states intend to use to test for it.read more […]
- Can Creativity Be Taught?Many states have begun calling for tests of student creativity. The only reason to test for creativity in schools is to teach it. But can creativity be taught? We don’t think so….read more […]
- What’s the Pattern?What do babies, birders and a set of fictional folks faced with a do-or-die puzzle have in common? Once again, we tease out an imaginative thinking tool fundamental to human cognition and creativity. read more […]
- Childhood Collecting: A Neglected Connection between Playing and Learning
Quotes
Quotes
Cheer the New Year here
“What can be said in New Year rhymes, That’s not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know we dream, we dream we know.” ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox Share this on:FacebookEmailStumbleUponDiggReddit
Notice the invisible
Seeing nothing, you don’t notice it at first. Share this on:FacebookEmailStumbleUponDiggReddit
Oscar Wilde on understanding art
Quote: “The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.” —Oscar Wilde So you think you understand it, do you? Well, that’s great. It is great to have an understanding of something. But do Read more
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Nietzsche on being cheerful
Quote: “There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.” —Friedrich Nietzsche Sometimes happiness doesn’t just come to us all the time. Read more
Do all that you can to do what you feel is right
Quote: “Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they can’t do.” —Zig Ziglar Try to remember this when you are on the path to your goal. Don’t Read more
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