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6 Ways to Think Like a 5-year-old
If you want to see the type of behavior adults need more of, watch some 5-year-olds on a playground for a few minutes. Step back in time and forget about deadlines, committee meetings, and company...
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Innovation through the Eyes of a Child
I'm currently reading Creating Innovators and so I thought I would share the classic post from 2009 below. In the first video, Gever Tulley describes our child safety-obsessed culture and the impact...
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Educating Tomorrow’s Workforce
When I first saw this topic I wanted to write about education innovation, but I resisted when a couple of the contributing authors chose this topic. I wrote about the publishing industry instead, but...
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Reflecting On Independence
Independence for a country is about choice. A country wants to be able to make choices to better itself, to control its own destiny. A country wants to feel like it has freedom to do what it thinks is...
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Landfill Harmonic
Landfill Harmonic is an upcoming feature-length documentary about a remarkable musical orchestra in Paraguay, where young musicians play instruments made from trash. Continue reading →
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30 Ways To Promote Creativity in Your Classroom
In recent times, there has been a shift towards the increased acceptance of valuing creativity for all learners. A 2003 TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson discussing this subject reached over 5 million...
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15 Education Technologies To Check Out in 2013
What latest gadgets and gizmos are going to change your classroom in 2013? It’s hard to know exactly what will catch on and what won’t, but the following list showcases some of the emerging new...
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Raw Creativity: Think like a child again
Michael Michalko's book: Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques is so chock full of ideas on creativity, that once again, today's post on "raw creativity" is inspired by the book....
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Innovation in the Hands of Kids
"I am an inventor!" “...I can't hear you” [Shouts from the crowd] "I AM AN INVENTOR!!" This is how my day started last Saturday at the UConn campus as I watched hundreds of young inventors eagerly...
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Everything Is Ripe For Innovation
The titles of this post might seem a little simplistic, and to a certain degree it is because it isn’t that easy. But, let’s consider the following story: Continue reading →
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Innovation Questions of the Day
As a parent and someone who is focused and passionate about helping organizations create a sustainable innovation culture for their organization, I'm always thinking about inspirational questions to...
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Einsteins from Anywhere
An estimated 250 million children around the world cannot read, write, or demonstrate basic arithmetic skills. Many of these children are in developing countries without regular access to quality...
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How We Should Prepare Our Kids For The Future
Education has long played an important role in the success of the United States. From some of the world’s first public schools to the land grant universities which spurred innovation in agriculture,...
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Why Investors Hate Medtech Innovation for Kids
Barry Didato, chief investment officer and executive vice president for The Innovation Institute, an international healthcare innovation incubator, provides his research on why investors hesitate when...
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Using Boredom to Teach Creativity
What do you get when you take the technology away from a group of 10 and 11 year olds and ask them to be creative with a handful of household objects? Well, Thomas Fraser, a teacher at Crestwood...
View ArticleWhy are Children more Creative than Adults?
I came across an interesting article entitled 10 Great Inventions Dreamt up by Children. They range from earmuffs to crayon holders to an underwater talking device. The stories of their young...
View ArticleInnovation or Not – The Shoe That Grows
I love elegant design solutions for problems that are more important than some of the silly things that we think of as problems in the first world. Their mission is simple, make shoes that will last...
View ArticleThe Simple Cure for Overthinking
In front of me sit 40 six sigma “black belts,” appraising me warily, all squinty-eyed and knit-browed. I’ve been asked to give them an introduction to design thinking. I don’t have a six sigma belt of...
View ArticleInnovation Programs In Schools Can Help Kids Learn More Than Just Facts
Traditionally, we went to school to attain knowledge. The smart kids knew that Columbus discovered America in 1492 and that the square root of 64 is eight. They studied diligently at home so that when...
View ArticleAre you crazy enough to think you can change the world?
Back in 1997 some of you reading this were not even born, but Steve Jobs had just returned to Apple. It was 12 years since he had been fired from the company he had created with Steve Wozniak in 1976....
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