“Zig Zag” Published in Japanese!
Sawyer’s book of creativity techniques is now available in Japanese, published by Yamaha Music.… Read More “Zig Zag” Published in Japanese!
Category: Enhancing creativity
Learning In and Through the Arts
Learning how to create looks a lot like effective learning in science and math.… Read More Learning In and Through the Arts
Tips for Sparking Inspiration
Tips for getting ideas from successful entrepreneurs… Read More Tips for Sparking Inspiration
“The Creativity Code” in TIME Magazine
My niece Sarah was in CVS and, for some reading material, she bought the TIME special issue The Power of Personality. While reading it, she discovered that I’m quoted at length in the article “The Creativity Code.” I didn’t even know about it! Thanks for texting me, Sarah! You made my day. The article quotes… Read More “The Creativity Code” in TIME Magazine
Fun! Off-Site Retreats Are Back
Corporate retreats: Remember them? Off-site meetings where the entire company flies or drives to a cool location for a few days of team-building, networking, and fostering corporate culture. There might be costumed characters, escape rooms, water balloon battles, yacht cruises around the harbor, open bars, famous musicians on stage. Sometimes, real work actually gets done–brainstorming… Read More Fun! Off-Site Retreats Are Back
Carolina’s Maker Class: Using Making To Help Children Learn
My UNC Spring 2018 class, “The maker movement and education,” is turning out to be a lot of fun! If you want to learn about how making stuff contributes to learning, you really have to make things yourself. So I’m guiding my students through a variety of making activities that have been influential in re-visioning… Read More Carolina’s Maker Class: Using Making To Help Children Learn
Creativity in the Classroom: Everyone Agrees that We Need More
A new study from Adobe, on the importance of teaching creative problem solving skills, found that educators and policymakers agree that we need to weave creativity throughout the school day, in all subjects. The study surveyed 2,000 teachers a policymakers from the U.K., Japan, Germany, and the U.S. They all say that creative problem solving… Read More Creativity in the Classroom: Everyone Agrees that We Need More
Where Entrepreneurs Have Ideas
Where do successful entrepreneurs get their best creative ideas? Molly Reynolds* interviewed some entrepreneurs to find out. Here are my favorites : John Goodman, John Goodman PR: Takes a three-hour walk and that’s “when I have my best creative ideas. My head de-clutters, and I start thinking clearly.” Kat Quinzel, Cash Cow: “I get my best… Read More Where Entrepreneurs Have Ideas
A Writer Is…
William Stafford, on “Writing,” has this to say: A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them. This quotation appears in a book… Read More A Writer Is…
Keep Creativity Alive in Children
I just stumbled on a fascinating essay about creativity in schools. It could have been written yesterday! Read to the end to find out who the famous author is, and what year it was written: How can we keep creativity alive in children? Creative children are likely to be unusual children. They get bored with the… Read More Keep Creativity Alive in Children
The Creativity Guru 