Before Reading or Watching Videos, Students Should Experiment First. The researchers drew on data gathered from students using the BrainExplorer, a tabletop tool that simulates how the human brain processes visual images. By David Plotnikoff A new study from the Stanford Graduate School of Education flips upside down the notion that students learn best by first independently reading texts or watching online videos before coming to class to engage in hands-on projects. Studying a particular lesson, the Stanford researchers showed that when the order was reversed, students’ performances improved substantially. While the study has broad implications about how best to employ interactive learning technologies, it also focuses specifically on the teaching of neuroscience and underscores the effectiveness of a new interactive tabletop learning environment, called BrainExplorer, which was developed by Stanford GSE researchers to enhance neuroscience instruction.
The findings were featured in the April-June issue of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. Why Emotional Excess is Essential to Writing and Creativity. Funny-chart-synonyms-words-fear-anger.jpg (426×487) Lh3.googleusercontent.com. Innovative Schools. Ink Provoking - Creative Writing Prompts Updated Every Monday Through Friday. Lectures Aren't Just Boring, They're Ineffective, Too, Study Finds. Are your lectures droning on? Change it up every 10 minutes with more active teaching techniques and more students will succeed, researchers say.
A new study finds that undergraduate students in classes with traditional stand-and-deliver lectures are 1.5 times more likely to fail than students in classes that use more stimulating, so-called active learning methods. “Universities were founded in Western Europe in 1050 and lecturing has been the predominant form of teaching ever since,” says biologist Scott Freeman of the University of Washington, Seattle. But many scholars have challenged the “sage on a stage” approach to teaching science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) courses, arguing that engaging students with questions or group activities is more effective. To weigh the evidence, Freeman and a group of colleagues analyzed 225 studies of undergraduate STEM teaching methods.
Freeman says he’s started using such techniques even in large classes. Vintage data visualization: 35 examples from before the Digital Era. This is a guest post by Tiago Veloso, the founder of Visual Loop, a collaborative digital environment for everything related to information design and data visualization. He lives in Brazil, and you can connect with him online on Twitter and LinkedIn. If you follow us regularly on Visual Loop, you’ve probably noticed we like to featured not only modern interactive visualizations and infographics, but also examples from the past, from the time when there were no computer softwares to help analyzing and designing and no Internet to access and share data.
Graphics, charts, diagrams and visual data representations have been published on books, newspapers and magazines since they exist, not to mention old maps and scientific illustrations, and despite the lack of tools such as the ones we have at our disposal nowadays, they are as inspiring and important as the best contemporary visualizations. A Map of Physics (1939) (A 1939 Map of Physics) (Via Strange Maps) (image:John Snow,1854 ) (image:P. Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity.
How to Optimize Your Brain: Why Refining Emotional Recall is the Secret to Better Memory. By Maria Popova “You are what you remember — your very identity depends on all of the events, people and places you can recall.” We’ve seen the many ways in which our memory can be our merciless traitor: it is not a recording device but a practitioner of creative plagiarism, a terrible timekeeper, and the bent backbone in the anatomy of lying. How, then, can this essential human faculty become our ally? In The Art of Doing: How Superachievers Do What They Do and How They Do It So Well (public library) — a compendium of pragmatic advice on such modern fixations and timeless aspirations as how to create a great company culture (courtesy of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh) to how to be funny (courtesy of Alec Baldwin) to how to fight for justice (courtesy of Constance Rice) — neurologist, neuropsychiatrist, and prolific brain-book author Richard Restak offers some vital tips on how to optimize your brain, central to which is honing the capacity and performance of your memory: Donating = Loving.
Teaching and Assessing Creativity. How to Develop Student Creativity. Undefined Copyright © 1996 by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from ASCD. Introduction: Theory of Creativity "Alice is brilliant, but she doesn't have a drop of creative talent. " "Barbara is wonderfully creative, but she does poorly on standardized tests. " "Carlos always has interesting approaches to problems, but he just doesn't fit into the traditional school environment. " How many times have we, as teachers, administrators, researchers, or parents, heard remarks like these?
Buying Low and Selling High The investment theory of creativity (Sternberg and Lubart 1995) asserts that creative thinkers are like good investors: They buy low and sell high. Creative ideas are both novel and valuable. 1. Modeling Creativity 2. CT-TFC-Final-Ed_Studies. School of Education at Johns Hopkins University-The Relevance of Creativity in Education. Maryland State Department of Education Council for Gifted and Talented This paper provides an overview of the stages and processes involved in creativity, how creativity is processed in the brain, the temperament and character traits present in highly creative individuals and how certain childhood experiences have an impact on the development of the creative potential.
In addition, some tools and methods useful for the identification and the facilitation of the creative potential are described. Understanding, identifying, and nurturing creative potential is relevant in education and therefore should be taken into account when developing education programs, strategies, and policies to achieve quality education for all children. What is Creativity? Creativity means bringing into being; it involves the generation of new things or ideas or the transformation of those previously existing. How is Creativity Processed in the Brain? The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) created by E.P. Chengmy. Sources-of-Innovation-Creativity. Education%20and%20creativity. ITL53-Gaspar. Learning-creative-approaches-that-raise-standards-250. QAHECA_Report.sflb. Scientific process skills education and scientific creativity. The purpose of science education is to enable individuals to use scientific process skills; in other words, to be able to define the problems around them, to observe, to analyze, to hypothesize, to experiment, to conclude, to generalize, and to apply the information they have with the necessary skills.
Scientific process skills (SPS) include skills that every individual could use in each step of his/her daily life by being scientifically literate and increasing the quality and standard of life by comprehending the nature of science. Therefore, these skills affect the personal, social, and global lifes of individuals. The SPS are a necessary tool to produce and use scientific information, to perform scientific research, and to solve problems. These skills can be gained by students through certain science education activities (Harlen, 1999; Huppert, Lomask & Lazarorcitz, 2002). For example, the purpose of learning by using a research study is to help teach the scientific processes.
Creativity and Innovation in Organizational Teams. Improving Creativity. Measuring Creativity | Explore how creativity is measured. Learn how experts are measuring creativity ... Rarely do we ever see the terms “measuring” and “creativity” in the same sentence, let alone placed snuggly together causing the reader’s mind to do a double flip over the meaning. Some might even consider “measuring creativity” an oxymoron. When staring at a colorful abstract painting, dancing, watching a movie, or losing ourselves in a book, our minds do not travel to statistical indices or cold, complex calculations. We simply get lost in the aesthetics of the artwork. We might, however, question how composers, writers, directors, or painters think in such a way as to produce such original and novel pieces of work.
Novelty and originality are, after all, the foundation of almost every definition of creativity. Yet if examined more closely, we might ask how exactly, and by what standards, do experts and the public rate – or measure – novelty or originality? The start of creative measures During World War II, psychologist J.P. Psychologist E. Creativity and innovations. Ww2.valdosta. An Easy Way to Increase Creativity. Creativity is commonly thought of as a personality trait that resides within the individual. We count on creative people to produce the songs, movies, and books we love; to invent the new gadgets that can change our lives; and to discover the new scientific theories and philosophies that can change the way we view the world. Over the past several years, however, social psychologists have discovered that creativity is not only a characteristic of the individual, but may also change depending on the situation and context.
The question, of course, is what those situations are: what makes us more creative at times and less creative at others? One answer is psychological distance. According to the construal level theory (CLT) of psychological distance, anything that we do not experience as occurring now, here, and to ourselves falls into the “psychologically distant” category. Why does psychological distance increase creativity?
A prisoner was attempting to escape from a tower. Construal-Level Theory of Psychological Distance. Construal Levels and Psychological Distance: Effects on Representation, Prediction, Evaluation, and Behavior. Construal-Level Theory of Psychological Distance.