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Hi Michael,
I agree with your first comment and extend it to everyone including my own inner dialogue with myself !
I can relate to your dichotomy in the second para and my antidote is to remind myself - not how bad things are - but how worse they…
Comment by Kevin Byron 1 minute ago Delete Comment Hi Michael,
I guess you are familiar with the tale about the Scorpion and the Frog:
The story goes that a scorpion who couldn't swim asked a frog to help him across the river. The frog declines in…
Thanks for your reply Michael and interesting to see how this discussion has developed. One of Kants' quotations goes (paraphrased from memory) "Two things fill me with awe - the starry skies above me and the moral law within me". Science may be abl…
This goes back a long time and there's many websites (google Trolley moral dilemma) that have gathered data on the responses to it. For a general overview see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
A more current one that was asked goes: if…
Hi All those who volunteered to submit something for The Hubbuck. Apologies for the inactivity since the idea was first proposed mooted earlier this year. I had hoped for a larger % of contributors (~0.02%) given the number of folk who are signed up…
Welcome to Alberta, England !!
Interesting bit of creative deception ranking alongside the portable bike lane (see blogs)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/25/ottawa-northumberland-advert
The quotes attempting damage limitation are amazing…
Hi Garth,
I guess any space that inhibits talk and chatter: A Library, A meditation hall, A maze, A mime space, A long, very steep hill, A breathtaking view, A musical recital, An art gallery, hearing stories etc. If it's for brainstorming such spa…
In a university that Jilk designed in France he arranged all the walkways from the different departments to cross each other at various places. The idea was that students might meet people from different disciplines and combine thoughts, ideas etc.…
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- Leicester University, UK
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- Currently: Teacher of Research Skills to Postgrads in Science.
Previously: Research Physicist. Facilitator of Creativity in Education (Primary,Secondary & Higher Education), NESTA Fellow.
Published: 60 Patents, 80 Peer reviewed papers, Joint authorship of books on Science and Innovation (Alchemy of Inovation, NATO Summer School in Optoelectronics), Monographs on Inventing, Counter-intuition (see http://www.I-C-R.org.uk )
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Creative expression and a second language !
In a recent workshop with students who were from different cultures and who had English as a second language an interesting discussion developed on the effect on creativity of speaking in a foreign tongue. There was unanimous agreement that if you are speaking in a second language then it is much harder to be creative. The additional cognitive load of doing translation even unconsciously would seem to be an obvious reason for this. I wonder if anyone has made a study of this and can point me to… Continue
Posted on February 18, 2009 at 8:25am — 2 Comments
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- At 10:16am on December 17, 2009,
Tim Hurson said…
- Hey were is your puzzle? Franca and I just solved it and we want to crow.
- At 3:36pm on March 2, 2009,
Franca Leeson said… - Mmmmm nothing like a slime mold Christmas Tree to brighten up the holidays! Very fractal.
- At 6:31am on November 6, 2008,
Mark_Abrahams said… - Kevin,
If and when we meet up I'll be happy to explain my frustrations in the workplace. Better still I'm posting an item on Hub Forum.
Luckily, everything else in my life is great - so its all academic.
Yes, would love to meet up at a UK gig if it can be arranged. It would be great to meet Tim too.
M.
- At 8:23am on November 5, 2008,
Mark_Abrahams said…
- Hi Kevin,
Pleased to add an anglophile to my Hub-kinsmanship. You sure are an interesting and knowledgeable fellow.
You look like a steep hill to climb. Let's see if Barack Obama can climb the likes of you.
He was bang on when he described our future (beautifully offset against the historic context) and used the steep hill to climb analogy.
Now we need someone in UK politics to take us climbing, unless we can tag along as another US state. Are we Europeans or what? Can we cut our cake and eat it? We could do with just one cake - Great Britain. No need to respond to any of this!!!! I'm just in the moment.
Guess, on the Hub, I'll stay away from politics from now on. It's not the place but it is the time.
Mark
- At 8:16pm on September 2, 2008,
John Yeo said… - Hi Kevin... I chanced upon your comments in Hal's page. We share many similar concerns especially when I am teaching teachers on applying creativity in our Singapore curriculum. Please feel free to visit my blogs and I really hope we could share our views and concerns. Some of my blogs include- http://think-learn-grow.blogspot.com, http://create-teeth-buzz.blogspot.com, http://joanna3117.blogspot.com
- At 4:18pm on August 23, 2008,
Hal Portner said… - Hi Kevin. FYI, I just sent the following comment to my Hubbite friends.
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If you have not already done so, kindly read, in the "Creativity in Education" forum, the exchange in which Kevin Byron and I have been recently engaged. We would appreciate your reaction.
Cheers,
Hal
- At 9:36am on August 20, 2008,
- Kevin! You've changed your photo! The crumpled look suits you, but I miss your smile.
- At 2:35pm on August 11, 2008,
Garth said… - Kevin,
You may find E. Paul Torrance's work highly interesting. The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) is one of the most widely used and most researched creativity test. Here's a brief excerpt from an article included in the Source Book for Creative Problem Solving:
Although there have been several hundred validity studies of the TTCT, perhaps the most powerful evidence of predictive validity comes from two longitudinal studies: a study of high school students initiated in 1959 and one of elementary children initiated in 1958.
Twelve years later followup data were obtained for 230 of the high school students with a variety of criteria of creative achievement. An overall validity coefficient of .51 was obtained for the creativity measures and these criteria of creative accomplishments. For males, this validity coefficient was .59 and for females it was .46.
22 Years later, followup data were collected from 220 of the elementary school participants. For the total sample, the overall validity coefficient was .63. For males, it was .62 and for females, it was .57.
- At 8:17am on August 10, 2008,
- Me too sorry you won't be MC-ing this year. We'll miss you terribly. ACRE?
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