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And now for something completely different - fascinating article on the serious decline of American creativity/innovation. Extending from childhood through to adults.

Absolutely agree with this article - see the same problems and opportunities every time we run an Innovation Workshop. Most adults have been taught specifically to give up on innovation - unless they are "designers" of some sort. That cedes far too much innovation energy to an incredibly small area of any given organization.

"Overwhelmed by curriculum standards, American teachers warn there’s no room in the day for a creativity class. Kids are fortunate if they get an art class once or twice a week. But to scientists, this is a non sequitur, borne out of what University of Georgia’s Mark Runco calls “art bias.” The age-old belief that the arts have a special claim to creativity is unfounded. When scholars gave creativity tasks to both engineering majors and music majors, their scores laid down on an identical spectrum, with the same high averages and standard deviations. Inside their brains, the same thing was happening—ideas were being generated and evaluated on the fly.

Researchers say creativity should be taken out of the art room and put into homeroom. The argument that we can’t teach creativity because kids already have too much to learn is a false trade-off. Creativity isn’t about freedom from concrete facts. Rather, fact-finding and deep research are vital stages in the creative process. Scholars argue that current curriculum standards can still be met, if taught in a different way."

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Ran across a Forrester "call to arms" looking at the innovation market space. Many people in my network should hop on to the blog post and make sure you have mentioned your company and solutions to Chris. I added a few, and of course dropped a line for our new company, Information Archiected. Is your Information Architected for Innovation? I certainly hope so! And if not, well, I have some ideas that should help.

So, innovators - get thee to Forrester to help them scope the space, and please, comment to my blog post/bookmark to let me know you've done so. Want to set up briefings as we head into 2009 so I'm fully aware of what you're all bringing to market!

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The short summary of this paper is that multi-tasking will kill you. Or at least your productivity. "Multi-tasking is bad"

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Intriguing blog by Brenda Brathwaite, a gaming legend I'm interviewing, stay tuned for the interview (currently in progress).

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Interesting AP article, found via WIRED syndication. MIT's OpenCourseWare has been around since 2001, and separating learning/teaching from the credentials of "going to MIT" seems to have done the trick. Driving up the "brand" while leaving revenue alone,

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Video: Google Docs in Plain English - more from the CommonCraft Crew

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Video: Blogs in Plain English - these guys are great. Brief, fun, understandable explanations.

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Sir Ken Robinson is author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, and a leading expert on innovation and human resources. In this talk, he makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity,

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Read the (eventually to be complete) works of Charles Darwin online... a bit easier to search than 50,000+ pages of text in books!

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darn handy collection

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Project oriented workshop on information architecture and taxonomy (and related issues of search, content management, workflow/business process

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Project oriented workshop on information architecture and taxonomy (and related issues of search, content management, workflow/business process

delphigroup informationarchitecture ia taxonomy taxonomies event education workshop search contentmanagement

Project oriented workshop on information architecture and taxonomy (and related issues of search, content management, workflow/business process

delphigroup informationarchitecture ia taxonomy taxonomies event education workshop search contentmanagement

Project oriented workshop on information architecture and taxonomy (and related issues of search, content management, workflow/business process

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Project oriented workshop on information architecture and taxonomy (and related issues of search, content management, workflow/business process

workshop taxonomy taxonomies search informationarchitecture ia event education delphigroup contentmanagement dan_keldsen carl_frappaolo hadley_reynolds

Project oriented workshop on information architecture and taxonomy (and related issues of search, content management, workflow/business process

workshop taxonomy taxonomies search informationarchitecture ia event education delphigroup contentmanagement dan_keldsen carl_frappaolo hadley_reynolds

Project oriented workshop on information architecture and taxonomy (and related issues of search, content management, workflow/business process

workshop taxonomy taxonomies search informationarchitecture ia event education delphigroup contentmanagement dan_keldsen carl_frappaolo hadley_reynolds

Project oriented workshop on information architecture and taxonomy (and related issues of search, content management, workflow/business process

workshop taxonomy taxonomies search informationarchitecture ia event education delphigroup contentmanagement

Project oriented workshop on information architecture and taxonomy (and related issues of search, content management, workflow/business process

workshop taxonomy taxonomies search informationarchitecture ia event education delphigroup contentmanagement

Project oriented workshop on information architecture and taxonomy (and related issues of search, content management, workflow/business process

workshop taxonomy taxonomies search informationarchitecture ia event education delphigroup contentmanagement