Wednesday, September 8, 2021 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers examined the differences in prefrontal cortex (PFC) activation between two distinct drawing tasks in virtual reality. Results of the study indicated significant differences between a rote tracing task and a creative...Friday, September 3, 2021 from creativiteach
What a beginning to a school year! All around me, my teacher friends and parent friends are struggling over what young people need most. How can we protect them from illness while maximizing their learning? How do we balance the social...Friday, August 27, 2021 from Creativity – The Next Web
Just like DeFi’s money legos are about to revolutionize finance, media legos will deeply alter the social layers of the web. They will change how creators issue, distribute, and monetize their work while defining new rules for content...Tuesday, August 17, 2021 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
If you're putting together a team for a project, you might be inclined to pick people with cheerful, optimistic dispositions and flexible thinking. But a new management study indicates your team might also benefit from people who are...Tuesday, August 10, 2021 from creativiteach
This is Katherine Johnson. I know it looks like a monarch butterfly egg, and it is, but its name is Katherine Johnson. It is not every butterfly egg that is fortunate enough to be named after an early NASA mathematician, but this one is....Tuesday, August 10, 2021 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
Music artists can find inspiration and new creative directions for their song writing with technology.Thursday, July 29, 2021 from creativiteach
I have a friend who, together with her quadriplegic husband, raised four wonderful children. Those “children” are now adults with not-so-young children of their own, and I continue to be impressed with their intelligence, integrity, and...Tuesday, July 27, 2021 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
Can you think of three words that are completely unrelated to one another? What about four, five, or even ten? According to researchers, this simple exercise of naming unrelated words and then measuring the semantic distance between them...Tuesday, July 13, 2021 from creativiteach
I’m having trouble watching the news these days. Truth is, that’s been true for years now. I have to moderate my news consumption to keep from being swamped by the flow of negativity and anger. I know people have always disagreed, but it...Tuesday, July 6, 2021 from creativiteach
When I was a child, I loved the story of archeologist Howard Carter uncovering King Tut’s tomb. I could easily envision his face as he first peered within and glimpsed the treasures inside, exclaiming that he saw “Things, wonderful...Tuesday, June 29, 2021 from creativiteach
It is summer, apparently with a vengeance. Here in Michigan, we are in the midst of a week of humidity, storms, and flooded highways, while my brother in usually-balmy Oregon has temperatures over 100 degrees. He took this photo of one...Wednesday, June 23, 2021 from creativiteach
I finished writing a sonnet today. In French. I make no claim that it was a good sonnet. In fact, when explaining it, I labeled it ”A sonnet that wasn’t a real sonnet,” since the patterns of rhymes and syllables were correct but I...Friday, June 18, 2021 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
To boost employees' creativity, managers should consider offering a set of rewards for them to choose from, according to a new study.Monday, June 14, 2021 from creativiteach » Creativity in the News
What makes sound? What makes music? If you’d like to explore these questions, and perhaps set your students on a summer quest, consider Frank Pahl. Frank Pahl is a Michigan musician and composer who works with automatic music, or music...Monday, June 7, 2021 from creativiteach
I was a young adolescent when the Beatles first appeared on Ed Sullivan. Their music sounded from every treasured 45 rpm record (yes, actual records) and boys in school were suddenly send home from school for combing their inch-long hair...Monday, May 31, 2021 from creativiteach
I was going to post a normal blog today—something about creative activities suited to the end-of-school-year days—but when the time came, it didn’t feel right. Today, in the U.S., it is Memorial Day, a day set aside to remember the men...Monday, May 10, 2021 from creativiteach » Creativity in the News
I know that people research almost anything. Years ago, when I was on a university committee to evaluate applications for sabbaticals and internal research grants, I was surprised and delighted at the variety of things our faculty were...Monday, May 3, 2021 from creativiteach » Creativity in the News
Has the pandemic time allowed you the chance to be creative? For some folks, I know, the pressures of children at home, school at home, work at home, every minute at home have left no time for anything but survival. For others of us, at...Monday, April 26, 2021 from Creativity – The Next Web
Is there anything Elon Musk can’t do? The modern-day Renaissance man has already set his sights on colonizing Mars, saving the world from environmental catastrophe, developing a “revolutionary” subway system, and putting chips in all our...Monday, April 26, 2021 from creativiteach » Creativity in the News
I’m back! I know there is a small-but-loyal following for this blog, and perhaps some of you noticed my being AWOL the last few months. Truth is, I’ve been so busy writing that managing a blog, too, was more than I could do. I just...Wednesday, February 3, 2021 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
Teaching children in a way that encourages them to empathize with others measurably improves their creativity, and could potentially lead to several other beneficial learning outcomes, new research suggests.Thursday, January 7, 2021 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
In a money-saving revelation for organizations inclined to invest in specialized information technology to support the process of idea generation, new research suggests that even non-specialized, everyday organizational IT can encourage...Thursday, November 12, 2020 from Creativity – The Next Web
It’s official: Netflix has signed revered filmmaker and director David Fincher in an exclusive four-year deal. The artist, which has directed cult classics like Fight Club, Se7en, The Social Network, Zodiac, and Gone Girl, revealed the...Tuesday, October 13, 2020 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
An expert in creativity and innovation is calling for schools and universities to increase their emphasis on teaching creativity, as new research shows it is a core competency across all disciplines and critical for ensuring future job...Monday, September 28, 2020 from Creativity – The Next Web
In today’s digital landscape, it’s critical to understand why design matters beyond the realm of the creative department. After all, marketing, branding, sales, business collaborations, and partnerships all hinge on the strength of a...Monday, September 28, 2020 from creativiteach » Creativity in the News
I’m not a regular watcher of America’s Got Talent, but the pandemic changes many things. So, recently, I ended up watching the last few episodes of the talent competition. There were singers, lightening-speed dancers, magicians,...Wednesday, September 9, 2020 from Creativity – The Next Web
TikTok may be on the verge of a US ban, but the app‘s content creators are still bravely pursuing their dreams of dancing mediocrely to vacuous music. They all need a hit song to make their videos go viral. But it’s hard to work out...Tuesday, September 8, 2020 from Creativity – The Next Web
The Guardian today published an article purportedly written “entirely” by GPT-3, OpenAI‘s vaunted language generator. But the small print reveals the claims aren’t all that they seem. Under the alarmist headline, “A robot wrote this...Wednesday, September 2, 2020 from Creativity – The Next Web
RX8, the latest release from the audio experts at iZotope, today launched with a bevvy of new features and an an updated interface. As you can guess from the sub-heading, I’m most excited about the all-new guitar de-noiser. As a...Tuesday, August 25, 2020 from Creativity – The Next Web
Facebook‘s AI boffins have developed a new system that creates original dance routines for any music that you feed it. The system doesn’t merely imitate the Moonwalk, the Renegade, or whatever other moves the kidz are busting on TikTok...Wednesday, August 19, 2020 from Creativity – The Next Web
Have you ever wondered what the Weeknd thinks about your taste in music? Me neither. But I can now officially inform you that he loves my choice of tunes, thanks to a new Spotify microsite. According to the streaming giant, Alone With Me...Wednesday, August 12, 2020 from Creativity – The Next Web
Genius has lost a lawsuit against Google that claimed the Big G stole lyrics from its site. The music company claimed to have proof Google was scraping its lyrics and displaying them in search results, thanks to a clever mix of digital...Tuesday, August 11, 2020 from 99U
In the second installment of our advice roundup with the co-founders of Of a Kind: doing the job no one teaches you.Tuesday, August 4, 2020 from 99U
The creative business duo behind Of a Kind answer reader questions—starting with a topic near and dear to them.Wednesday, July 29, 2020 from 99U
Red Antler co-founder Emily Heyward’s new book draws from her years of experience in the marketing industry and dives deep into making a brand that people love and trust.Monday, July 27, 2020 from creativiteach » Creativity in the News
As we consider the social emotional strengths that will serve students well in building creativity—and in learning—one good place to start is with The Henry Ford Museum’s Model i, a model of design thinking for innovation. The Henry Ford...Wednesday, July 22, 2020 from 99U
Strategies from creatives on how to get unstuck and move forward in your work.Wednesday, July 15, 2020 from 99U
With the right approach, your downtime can reap benefits for your career and optimize your work life.Monday, July 13, 2020 from creativiteach » Creativity in the News
In recent weeks, social media has exploded with a debate about schools reopening. And—like pretty much everything else related to schools—everyone seems to have an opinion, regardless of whether they’ve been near a public school in...Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from 99U
Rob Walker invites us to look at the world around us with fresh eyes in his book of exercises, challenges, and observations.Wednesday, June 24, 2020 from 99U
Noah Kalina, the photographer behind cult-loved books, a deeply respected art photography practice, and a viral video project that has amassed over 44 million views, opens up on his early days as an artist and his unlikely new medium.Wednesday, June 17, 2020 from 99U
Our speakers at the 2020 99U Conference explored the theme of The Creative Self with insight, wit, and compassion. Here's a look at the keynotes, master classes, and workshops from our first virtual 99U Conference, filmed at a production...Wednesday, June 17, 2020 from 99U
Exploring the ways we can show and receive love in our relationships with clients, employees, and colleagues, and build lasting, reciprocal links rooted in acts of care.Wednesday, June 17, 2020 from 99U
An exercise that shows us how to build time into our schedule for those secret aspirations, and how to create with soul to capture genuine energy in our work.Thursday, April 9, 2020 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
A new neuroimaging study points to an answer of what may have driven the evolutionary development of creativity.Tuesday, March 31, 2020 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
A new brain-imaging study has studied the brain activity of jazz guitarists during improvisation to show that creativity is, in fact, driven primarily by the right hemisphere in musicians who are comparatively inexperienced at...Thursday, March 5, 2020 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
Want to boost creativity? Caffeine may not be the way to go according to a news study.Monday, February 24, 2020 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
Technology has shifted the way that professors teach students in higher education. For example, by uploading recorded lectures online, students can reference a digital copy of the topics discussed in class. However, lecture-based...Wednesday, February 12, 2020 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
Economists and business leaders agree that innovation is a major force behind economic growth, but many disagree on what is the best way to encourage workers to produce the 'think-outside-of-the-box' ideas that create newer and better...Wednesday, December 11, 2019 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
Country music songwriters must perform a careful dance when they work with famous singers who may be less talented at writing songs but bring the needed star power to attract fans -- and, importantly, to get the song recorded in the...