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A list of resources relating to creativity and innovation as descriptors of the machinery of progress in all fields.
Updated on May 10, 15
Created on Aug 23, 09
Category: Schools & Education
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Inventor Dean Kamen discusses the need to fail in order to succeed when you are trying something new. Innovators never give up.
One man's creativity is associated with PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX. He began as a 12-yr old software entrepreneur.
robot invasion movie turns $300 into $30 million contact for Uruguay producer
Guitar Hero created the demand for music-based social games!! No need to shoot, attractive to young and female, too
Kim Swift, star game designer, talks about innovation, youth, school, and work. (32 min).
bilingual site for kid authors to support their creativity and improvement and publishing
New Models of Research & Innovation (BigThink)
Using video game design as their example, the discussion suggests more action and prototyping and less delaying talk. In play, it suggests that talk sometimes gets in the way of the flow experience that may involve more of the brain.
It took 50 years before the ideas used to produce the amplified, cohererent light we call LASER to do the reverse, to absorb light of a specific frequency. How was this discovered ... even though the princples were established 50 yrs ago.
good example of creative solution
games with no controller!
"Natural History of Innovation" -- idea that ideas are seldom new or individual -- they generally come from a culture that is "ready" for the idea. Examples of simultaneous discoveries.
summary of Johnson book Where Good Ideas Come From
comments on difference between analytical and creative thinking and a bit of an explanation of serendipity
Play is the missing ingredient in happiness that we kill in adulthood by our emphasis on productivity and efficiency
The Comics Code Authority waged a war of censorship on comic books for decades, prohibiting anything that might remotely corrupt the morals of minor (like mention of drugs or a policeman or elected official committing a crime).
29 items | 1 visits
A list of resources relating to creativity and innovation as descriptors of the machinery of progress in all fields.
Updated on May 10, 15
Created on Aug 23, 09
Category: Schools & Education
URL: