How to Use the Psychology of Space to Boost Your Creativity If you’re a creative professional or artist who works at home either full- or part-time, you enjoy at least one immediate advantage over your office-bound peers: People generate more ideas for novel and useful solutions to creative problems when they’re at home than in any other single environment. Want to make your home an even more effective idea incubator? Apply what scientists in the field of environmental psychology have learned about the effects of space on creative thinking to your home office. Environmental psychology is a branch of science that explores the influence of our physical surroundings on how we think, feel, and act. That influence has been felt most strongly so far in healthcare facility design. But research in environmental psychology hasn’t been limited to issues of healthcare. In fact, this compendium of knowledge contains so many tactics for facilitating creativity that it would be difficult to explore them all in depth here. Views and Vistas Ceiling Height
the toolkit » Alex Bruton's website and blog – The Innographer - Practical innovation education and speaking We’ll be launching in stages over the next few months! Some content has been posted already and other content is on its way. While you wait for the rest, check out this video and the other tabs above which describe the project. Or browse the toolkit at the bottom of this page. I can also keep you up to date as things roll out – including detailed teaching notes – just tell us how to reach you! The best way is to Follow us on Facebook. Keep up with our upcoming big releases (including teaching notes) by Following us on Facebook! You can browse the toolkit below. It started out as a book project, but the word book just doesn’t seem to do it justice any more. The toolkit’s intended to help anyone – but especially people just starting down the innovation and entrepreneurship path – as they turn new ideas into wealth-building innovations. It’s not just about commercializing a technology or making money (stereotypes often associated with innovation). Everyone can do it!
Creating Effective Teacher-Parent Collaborations, Education Up Close, Teaching Today, Glencoe Online Creating Effective Teacher-Parent Collaborations By forming effective partnerships with parents, teachers can get a boost in helping their students to succeed. This article provides three essential strategies for making these collaborations work. Parents Want Your Help Parents want their children to succeed in school. They want them to behave in class, to do their homework, and to benefit from the knowledge that a good education gives them. And for the most part, they trust that teachers can help them achieve this. For today's parents, however, their own role in their child's success is far from clear. Changing Roles Parental involvement in education used to mean organizing bake sales and attending PTA meetings. Today, involved parents want more say in what happens in the classroom. Teachers usually welcome parents who take an interest in their child's education. Improved channels of communication foster understanding, caring and collaboration between the classroom and home.
The (lack of) science behind happiness and creativity — Quartz Corporations intent on making employees more engaged and creative are focusing on happiness as the answer. Chief Happiness Officer is an actual job at many companies. But most scientists say that creativity calls on persistence and problem-solving skills, not positivity. Computational scientist Anna Jordanous at Kent University and linguist Bill Keller of Sussex University in England dug through through over half century of study on the creative process in various fields, and isolated 14 components of creativity. Happiness wasn’t one of them. Creativity is complex. Mark Davis, a psychologist at the University of North Texas Department of Management divides creativity into two phases; initial idea generation and subsequent problem-solving. But rigor is the key to overcoming obstacles and completing tasks—and good mood doesn’t improve problem-solving, which involves judgments that almost by necessity won’t feel good: critique and evaluation, experimentation and failure.
Idea » Blog Archive » Créativité : sommes-nous vraiment créatifs ? « Je suis un créatif hein ! ». Plus d’une fois, nous avons souvent entendu cette phrase dans la bouche d’un directeur artistique, de la création, d’un infographe ou tout simplement d’un graphiste lorsque nous ne sommes pas d’accord avec lui sur un concept. Alors, pendant deux semaines, je vous amènerai à la découverte de ce petit mot qui a tout son sens dans notre petit monde de publicitaire / Marketeur : la créativité. C’est quoi la créativité ? C’est quoi la créativité ? Pour comprendre ce qu’est la créativité, je me suis référé au dictionnaire Babylon - lisez en anglais - et voici ce qu’il en ressort : La créativité décrit — de façon générale — la capacité d’un individu ou d’un groupe à imaginer ou construire et mettre en œuvre un concept neuf, un objet nouveau ou à découvrir une solution originale à un problème. En d’autres termes, la créativité est un concept NOUVEAU, une SOLUTION ORIGINALE à un problème pratique donné. Alors, y a-t-il un processus qui amène à la créativité ? Eh oui !
The Value of a Creative Education - Ai Insite Creative people have long been challenged to prove that they can reach their creative career goals. For many, it begins during the college search process. An enthusiastic student finds the perfect program – in an area such as graphic design, photography, culinary, or fashion – and pitches the idea to a less-than-enthusiastic parent who wonders what prospects will be after graduation. Individuals determined to pursue a creative career may take heart in the findings of the Texas Cultural Trust’s study “The Role of the Innovation Workforce & Creative Sector in the Texas Economy.” The publication found that “at its core, the creative sector is about nurturing, retaining, and growing an innovation workforce.” The study also asserts that the economy benefits when employees bring creativity to the table. These impact of creative professionals on the economy is the subject of Richard Florida’s book,The Rise of the Creative Class. In short, creativity has big value.
Second-Level Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform “Experience is what you got when you didn’t get what you wanted.” Howard Marks Successful decision making requires thoughtful attention to many separate aspects. Decision making is as much art as science. The goal, if we have one, is not to make perfect decisions but rather to make better decisions than average. In most of life you can get a step ahead of others by going to the gym or the library, or even a better school. Would be thinkers and deciders can attend the best schools, take the best courses and, if they are lucky, attach themselves to the best mentors. But how do we get there in a world where everyone else is also smart and well-informed? In his exceptional book, The Most Important Thing, Howard Marks hits on the concept of second-level thinking. First-level thinking is simplistic and superficial, and just about everyone can do it (a bad sign for anything involving an attempt at superiority). “Second-level thinking is deep, complex and convoluted.” Marks writes:
Manager l'innovation par le service - Un levier pour sortir de la crise - (EAN13 : 9782706117466) Des boutiques Nespresso aux Apple Store, l’innovation par le service transforme les modèles économiques et remet en cause les frontières entre les secteurs d’activité. Elle est devenue incontournable : à l’heure de la désindustrialisation, les entreprises doivent impérativement faire évoluer leurs offres afin de résister à la concurrence en inventant de nouvelles prestations pour accompagner leurs produits. Bien plus, elles doivent entrer, culturellement, dans le paradigme de l’économie de service qui domine aujourd’hui le contenu des échanges. Cet ouvrage transdisciplinaire dresse un état des lieux des différents concepts clés du management de l’innovation par le service, et présente des pratiques empruntées à différents métiers : transports, santé, tourisme, etc. Il donne la parole à des enseignants-chercheurs ainsi qu’à des praticiens. Il ambitionne de combler un vide : celui d’un ouvrage collectif et francophone proposant une lecture récente de cette question majeure.
100 Classroom Organizing Tricks New Uses for Old Things 1. Empty Tissue Box You always need plastic bags for sending home art projects and wet clothes. Tame that unruly mess that seemingly multiplies under your desk with an empty tissue box to keep bags corralled and ready for use. 2. Post-it Notes Are the keyboards in your classroom frighteningly grimy? 3. 4. 5. Terrific Timesavers 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Ingenious Organizing Tools 12-22 You might be surprised at the "free" organizing tools you can find in your attic, basement, or at least at a neighbor's garage sale. Vases Baskets Tackle boxes Silverware trays Muffin tins Oatmeal canisters Photo boxes Cookie jars Old suitcases Metal lunchboxes Mason Jars and tin cans Rethink Your Room 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. Just for Fun 29. A More Peaceful Classroom 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. Free (or Almost Free) Supplies 36-38 Too many teachers spend their own hard-earned cash to outfit their rooms. Freecycle.org: A nonprofit site where you can give (and get) stuff free in your own town. 39.
Brainstorming Doesn't Work; Try This Technique Instead Evan Rosenbaum was 2 years old when his father brought home the Power Macintosh 7100. This was 1994, and the 7100, a new personal computer from Apple, was a hefty gray console, hardly anything to look at. (It would be three years before Steve Jobs fatefully met the designer Jony Ive.) Nevertheless, the computer was cutting edge at the time, and Rosenbaum’s father, Howard, an accountant with entrepreneurial aspirations, unboxed it with delight. He installed it in the wood-paneled den overlooking the backyard of his Long Island home. "I just remember how excited he was, setting it up, seeing what it could do," Rosenbaum says. But then, Howard passed away suddenly, stricken with a heart attack at 35. When Rosenbaum turned 3, then 4, he spent more and more time with the 7100. Rosenbaum didn’t realize the degree to which he associated his dad with the 7100 until the year he turned 6. One day in September, just as kindergarten was about to begin, the Sony Vaio came.
Healthy Eating: Easy Tips for Planning a Healthy Diet & Sticking to It Healthy eating tip 1: Set yourself up for success To set yourself up for success, think about planning a healthy diet as a number of small, manageable steps rather than one big drastic change. If you approach the changes gradually and with commitment, you will have a healthy diet sooner than you think. Simplify. Think of water and exercise as food groups in your diet. Water. Exercise. Healthy eating tip 2: Moderation is key People often think of healthy eating as an all or nothing proposition, but a key foundation for any healthy diet is moderation. For most of us, moderation or balance means eating less than we do now. Try not to think of certain foods as “off-limits.” Healthy eating tip 3: It's not just what you eat, it's how you eat Healthy eating is about more than the food on your plate—it is also about how you think about food. Eat with others whenever possible. Healthy eating tip 4: Fill up on colorful fruits and vegetables Fruits and vegetables are the foundation of a healthy diet.