• For the right employees, even standard information technology can spur creativity
    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...
  • The Power of Curiosity
    Monday, December 14, 2020 from creativiteach
    I love it when I find a website that really makes me think. I did that this week, with the site for the Global Oneness Project. The Global Oneness Project says its goal is to “to plant seeds of empathy, resilience, and a sacred...
  • Seeing the Germs and More
    Monday, December 7, 2020 from creativiteach
    If you haven’t yet seen Mark Rober’s wildly viral How to See Germs Spread video, you should. In fact, stop reading and go watch it right now. The clear demonstration of how germs spread from surface to surface is disconcerting, to say...
  • 6-Word Memoirs
    Monday, November 30, 2020 from creativiteach
    In a New York Times opinion column this  fall, Larry Smith, founder and editor of Smith Magazine,  suggested that his six-word memoir format is a good one for recording our pandemic times. I agree. Six-word memoirs are exactly...
  • The Great Thanksgiving Listen
    Monday, November 23, 2020 from creativiteach
    Thanksgiving is going to be different this year. In the midst of a spreading pandemic, many of us will be missing holiday traditions and large family gatherings to stay safely at home. As we do, we’ll be trying to figure out how we can...
  • Be the Squirrel
    Sunday, November 15, 2020 from creativiteach
    We have a squirrel-proof bird feeder in our yard. We’ve had it for years and it really is quite effective at keeping squirrels out of the bird seed. The seed is protected by a weighted bar. A bird can sit on the bar and eat happily, but...
  • Netflix signs David Fincher in a 4-year exclusive deal
    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...
  • Lotus Blossoms for Brainstorming
    Monday, November 9, 2020 from creativiteach
    I’ve used a lot of brainstorming techniques, but here’s a new one I’m anxious to try. It is called the Locus Blossom Creative Technique and was developed by Yasuo Matsumura. The technique uses a grid design to help problem solvers...
  • Revising Our Thinking About Revising
    Monday, November 2, 2020 from creativiteach
    Recently, I’ve been thinking about writing. I’ve been reading research about writers and thinking about how it relates to the writing students do in schools—virtual or otherwise. Of course, there are many kinds of writing students need...
  • Creative Mortification
    Sunday, October 25, 2020 from creativiteach
    I left elementary school absolutely convinced I could not draw and, in fact, that I was no good at art. Any art. I’m not sure exactly when that happened. As a young child I enjoyed drawing, painting, clay, and creating all manner of...
  • Acorn Elves, Just for Fun
    Tuesday, October 20, 2020 from creativiteach
    It is autumn in Michigan, that beautiful season that fills me with equal amounts of awe and dread. Crisp fall days with glorious leaves and (pre-COVID) cider mill trips are some of the most beautiful of the year. But we all know what’s...
  • Which is more creative, the arts or the sciences?
    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...
  • Learn a Language for Creativity
    Monday, October 12, 2020 from creativiteach
    Learn a Language Yes, (in case you wondered after my “learn from failure” post) I’m still taking French. For fun. This semester I’m taking a conversation class in which we do a variety of activities to attempt to communicate in “spontaneous French.”...
  • Graphic design apps are now as fundamental as Excel — here’s how non-designers get up to speed
    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...
  • Brandon Leake: America’s Got Creative Talent
    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,...
  • This AI crunched the numbers to make the perfect TikTok song — but is it though?
    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...
  • The Guardian’s GPT-3-generated article is everything wrong with AI media hype
    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...
  • iZotope’s new RX8 repair tool cleans up your noisy audio with AI
    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...
  • Two left feet? Facebook’s new AI dance choreographer can teach you some brand new moves
    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...
  • The AI version of the Weeknd and I are now BFFs — deal with it
    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...
  • Genius loses lyric-scraping lawsuit against Google, despite watermark trick catching the Big G ‘red-handed’
    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...
  • Asking for a Friend: How Do You Learn to Manage People?
    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.
  • ‘World’s first’ AI-generated arts festival program opens this Friday
    Wednesday, August 5, 2020 from Creativity – The Next Web
    The Edinburgh Fringe is the world’s largest performing arts festival, but this year’s event has sadly been canceled due to COVID-19. Fortunately, art junkies can still get their fix of the Fringe at a virtual alternative curated by an AI...
  • Asking for a Friend: What Does It Take to Build a Successful Partnership?
    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.
  • Obsessed: Building a Brand People Love from Day One
    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.
  • This AI turns your home videos into cute cartoons
    Tuesday, July 28, 2020 from Creativity – The Next Web
    If you’ve ever wondered what you’d look like in animated form, you can now find out. Developers Tejas Mahajan and Niraj Pandkar have created an AI tool that can turn your photos and videos into cartoons. Cartoonizer is based on a...
  • Habits for Creativity: Empathy
    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...
  • Stumbling Blocks and Obstacles: How to Overcome Creative Ruts
    Wednesday, July 22, 2020 from 99U
    Strategies from creatives on how to get unstuck and move forward in your work.
  • How to Think Smart About Your Downtime
    Wednesday, July 15, 2020 from 99U
    With the right approach, your downtime can reap benefits for your career and optimize your work life.
  • A Roadmap for Reopening
    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...
  • Pay Attention: The Art of Noticing
    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.
  • How to Channel a Daily Vision into a 20-Year Photography Career
    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.
  • Highlights from the 12th Annual 99U Conference: The Creative Self
    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...
  • Emily Cohen: Building the Love Into Creative Business
    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.
  • John S. Couch: Designing a New Day
    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.
  • Innovate with the Innovators!
    Monday, May 25, 2020 from creativiteach » Creativity in the News
    The year 2020 will be known for many things, but one of them certainly will be innovation. All of us have had to flex in ways we never expected. Individuals, businesses, and organizations of all sorts have had to find new ways of...
  • Creativity and Hope
    Tuesday, May 12, 2020 from creativiteach » Creativity in the News
       I thought I was finished with blogging. Creativiteach had a good run–seven years at the point I paused—and as I looked toward phased retirement, it seemed a good time to wind things down. Last spring, I thought I’d take the...
  • Aha! + Aaaah: Creative insight triggers a neural reward signal
    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.
  • Where in the brain does creativity come from? Evidence from jazz musicians
    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...
  • Caffeine boosts problem-solving ability but not creativity, study indicates
    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.
  • Technology in higher education: learning with it instead of from it
    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...
  • What is the best way to encourage innovation? Competitive pay may be the answer
    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...
  • The songwriter is creative -- the singer, not so much
    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...
  • Is virtual reality the next big thing in art therapy?
    Tuesday, November 12, 2019 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
    Researchers have conducted a study to see if virtual reality can be used as an expressive tool in art therapy.
  • As an act of self-disclosure, workplace creativity can be risky business
    Wednesday, September 4, 2019 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
    It's increasingly common for managers to instruct employees to 'be creative' during brainstorming sessions. But according to a new article, being creative in the workplace is potentially fraught with peril because creativity itself is...
  • Want to boost creativity? Try playing Minecraft
    Monday, July 8, 2019 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
    Video games that foster creative freedom can increase creativity under certain conditions, according to new research. The experimental study compared the effect of playing Minecraft, with or without instruction, to watching a TV show or...
  • Sister, neighbor, friend: Thinking about multiple roles boosts kids' performance
    Tuesday, July 2, 2019 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
    A typical child plays many roles, such as friend, neighbor, son or daughter. Simply reminding children of that fact can lead to better problem-solving and more flexible thinking, finds new research. Better problem-solving was just one...
  • The power of empathy in product development
    Tuesday, May 28, 2019 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
    What kind of potato chip would you create, and what would you name it, if you wanted to sell the product exclusively to pregnant women?
  • Creativity: A question of impulsiveness
    Thursday, May 23, 2019 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
    How can employees' working time be organized so as to enable them to perform in the best possible way when completing both creative and routine tasks? Economists investigated this question and made a surprising discovery. Which working...
  • Why creative experts may be better at imagining the future
    Wednesday, May 8, 2019 from Creativity News -- ScienceDaily
    Humans use imagination a lot, whether it be thinking about what's for dinner later tonight or trying to imagine what someone else on the other side of the world may be experiencing after reading the news. As situations become farther...
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