If you’ve seen on this TED video how education had clobbered creativity – you’ll likely be ready to rewire for another go at innovation.
25 words to reboot brainpower and zap your 2010 with innovative facts from brain sciences:
1. Invent and share a refreshing solution to a stubborn work problem – solve a difficulty that [...]
The human brain comes with unique equipment to build and sustain innovative cultures, where design leads to profitability. How so?
1. Kindle and design an idea. Just as the iPod started with an innovative idea, Steve Jobs and others continue to design Apple products that revolutionize communication. Fast Company celebrated the last decade’s 14 biggest such [...]
Written By Ellen Weber, PhD and Robyn McMaster, PhD
Higher Education and Brain Based Benefits
Challenges of Change
Renewal is to the university community today what Renaissance was to the Middle Ages. Both encompass a resurgence of learning. Both tap into more potential from the human brain. To reconfigure university teaching for a rebirth [...]
To renew with the brain in mind is to approach teens and teaching with new vision, diverse tools, and higher expectations for all:
Teens bring unique knowledge to technology and renewal both recognizes and uses their technical skills. (Braden Husdal in Teaching starts from Brain Down)
Repetition is less effective for teens than teaching math [...]
Broken systems all around us, offer unprecedented opportunities to learn and lead transformational innovations for a new era. Science shows how even a small band of like minded birds can create a revolution and sway the direction of an entire flock. Why then do some people cling to tiny places on sinking ships?
If you find [...]
Expert Jerome Kagan says to value arts as fuel for the brain in ways that maths and sciences alone cannot generate balanced solutions.
Former defense secretary, Robert McNamara says war is flawed by mere rationalism while the brain’s reflective powers, enable us to avoid errors of judgments.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, says that mere rational [...]
Leaders watch US education falling behind globally, and mistakenly call for far much more math and science. On first glance, hard science focus may make sense, expect for dangerous imbalance to human brains and achievement. How so?
Learners, equipped with a full range of multiple intelligences, use their unique mix of capabilities to create, process, [...]
