The Christmas holiday that we celebrate today was created through an emergent, collaborative, distributed process. The same process that generates almost all radical innovation. Christmas wasn’t widely celebrated in the United States until the late 19th century. The reason is that most U.S. Christians were Protestants and many of them associated Christmas with pagan rituals… Read More The Creation of Christmas
I’ve recently returned from my first trip to Asia. I was invited to give a keynote address at an annual conference, the International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE), about my research on creativity and learning. The conference was held outside Malaysia’s capital city of Kuala Lumpur, in the completely new and modern suburb of… Read More First Asia Trip
This week I am in Putrajaya, Malaysia, as an invited keynote speaker at the ICCE, the pre-eminent Asian conference on computers in education. I was invited to talk about my research on creativity and learning; creativity is recognized as an important educational issue in most Asian countries. In recent years, I have been impressed with… Read More International Conference on Computers in Education
The Creativity Guru 