Teaching Creativity “Are we really serious when we say that schools should nurture creativity and other skills for innovation?” This OECD report on Asian educational initiatives, is a hopeful sign that creativity and innovation skills are becoming an integral part of education. I hope schools in North America are doing
Read more →Creativity Training: ROI Return on Investment Many organizations, such as 3M, Frito-Lay, and Texas Instruments, have introduced systematic creativity activities into their training and production processes with outstanding results. Frito-Lay, for instance, reports documented cost savings over a four-year period of almost $600 million due to their creativity training programs (Morrison, 1997 —
Read more →By Garreth Heidt Perkiomen Valley Middle School, Collegeville, PA (2001) My first act in class this year was to have the students create “Creativity Journals” in which we would practice different techniques and exercises designed to develop creative AND analytical minds. One of our first exercises came to me after
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