[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU[/youtube][youtube]For a while now I have been digging into the literature to find resources related to creativity and innovation. There appears to be a somewhat old-fashioned belief or assumption that states there are people who are creative and there are people who are not creative and that creativity is a result of natural talent. However, Edward De Bono and his staff state that formal skills of lateral thinking can be taught, learned, and practiced in as deliberate a manner as we learn and use mathematics. Continue reading Where Good Ideas Come From — Shirley Hall
Month: August 2012
Remembering Versus Googling — Mark Morton
The story goes that a reporter asked Albert Einstein for his phone number (no, this didn’t take place in a bar), and Einstein had to look it up in a phone directory. When the reporter expressed surprise that the twentieth-century’s greatest physicist didn’t know his own phone number, Einstein replied, “Never memorize what you can look up in a book.”
If there was any validity to Einstein’s comment when he said it many decades ago, then it’s even more valid now: Google lets me look up information much more quickly and easily than even the most nimble-fingered research librarian can find it in a book.
But should we really follow Einstein’s advice about memorization? After all, the man couldn’t even comb his own hair, and he seems to have had trouble knowing what to do with his tongue. Continue reading Remembering Versus Googling — Mark Morton
Launching the new Instructor Resources Repository in the LOR of LEARN
The summer is a great time for catching up on projects that get lost in the flurry of the busy fall and winter terms. With the roll out of LEARN (replacing UW-ACE) and all the associated changes and transitions that we have been facing, one part of the old UW-ACE system that is in my prevue and that was getting short shrift is the Instructor Resources Repository (IRR). However, with LEARN more on course and the slower pace of the spring term, I’m glad to say that we have almost completed the migration of the IRR to the Learning Object Repository (LOR) in LEARN. Continue reading Launching the new Instructor Resources Repository in the LOR of LEARN