Innovation, ay?
Greetings:I ranted and raved about the information in Freidman’s text so much that I was afraid I’d left little excitement for Kelley’s The Art of Innovation. But, alas, I’ve found the energy to go on and have some ranting available for this text too!
Beautifully easy to read with much applicable information (I like learning and teaching things that can actually be done—it’s a magnificent kindergarten-like epiphany feeling that more learners need to have on a regular basis). So, I’m looking forward to our IDEO assignments. The concepts on innovative/critical thinking in this text can be seen somewhat in the work done at the Willem Koning College in the Netherlands (no surprise I’ve brought this school up again is there?).
After my reading of The Art of Innovation, I went back and browsed the Koning website and found their teaching and professional development approach to innovative/critical thinking is worth a more in depth lookie-see. They use the term Creative Thinking and their website is:
http://www.svdt.com/contact/P_routebeschrijving.htm
