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
Category: Education
Learning with Robots at UNC
This week in “The Maker Movement and Education,” a UNC undergraduate class taught by Professor Keith Sawyer: This week the students are exploring how to use programmable robots to help children learn. I asked the students to find a lesson plan activity on line, one that uses one of three robots to help children learn… Read More Learning with Robots at UNC
What Will We Do After AI Takes Our Jobs?
Christopher Mims predicts that artificial intelligence will increasingly put white collar, professional workers out of work. That means people who blog. 🙂 Muriel Clauson, of Singularity University, says “Education is often touted as the answer to the skills gap, but it is generally a blunt instrument.” She recommends this system: First, break down every job… Read More What Will We Do After AI Takes Our Jobs?
Sawyer keynote at IDEAS conference in Calgary, Canada
I just delivered the keynote address “Educating for Innovation” at this big event in Calgary, with teachers, school leaders, education professors, and policy types: After the keynote, I did a breakout session where I shared my research on how art school professors teach. Then, I asked the audience to work in small groups to apply these practices… Read More Sawyer keynote at IDEAS conference in Calgary, Canada
Innovation in Korea
To prepare for my keynote talk on Thursday at the Global Leaders Forum in Seoul, I did some research on innovation in Korea. I was impressed to learn that Korea tops many international indices of innovation. In 2013, Korea was first in the European Union ranking: And again in 2014, South Korea topped the EU… Read More Innovation in Korea
Sawyer Keynote at Korea Global Leaders Forum
I’m in Seoul, Korea, giving the closing talk at the 3rd annual Global Leaders Forum. They know me here because two of my books have been translated into Korean (see the cover photos below). This year’s theme: Creative Code, 6 Revolutions Change Korea! My closing keynote is “Education Revolution, Creative People Change the World.” In 2014,… Read More Sawyer Keynote at Korea Global Leaders Forum
The Origin of “Creativity”
In a fascinating new book chapter*, Dr. Camilla Nelson documents the history of the concept of creativity. Prior to the mid-19th century and the Darwinian revolution, the words “creative” and “creativity” were not used at all (see her Google Ngram on page 173), and “creation” was associated with the divine. Darwin showed that nature could… Read More The Origin of “Creativity”
Computer Games and Learning
There’s been lots of research lately on how computer games can be used to inspire new educational software–software that’s aligned with what we know about how people learn. Most scholars who study this are learning scientists, and there’s a chapter summarizing this research in my 2014 book, The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences. Here’s… Read More Computer Games and Learning
How to Foster Creativity in the Primary Curriculum
For the fifth and final talk of my European lecture tour, I gave the keynote at a meeting of primary school educators, the Association for the Study of Primary Education (ASPE): Creativity in the Primary Curriculum. Planned in collaboration with the Open University, the University of Exeter, and the BERA Creativity SIG, the seminar seeks… Read More How to Foster Creativity in the Primary Curriculum
Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET)
On the fourth stop of my European tour 2015, I gave the annual CREET lecture at the Open University. The room was full of brilliant colleagues that I very much respect. So I used the opportunity to report on a very new analysis I’m now doing, using a new data set, on creativity and learning. I… Read More Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET)
The Creativity Guru 