SYMPOSIUM - Tuesday, October 2, 2007 - UNM Student Union Building (SUB) Ballrooms A & B
ABSTRACTS
Dr. R. Keith Sawyer presented “Creativity, Innovation and the New Sciences of Learning”
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~ksawyer/
In today's technologically complex and economically competitive world, creativity and innovation are critical to success. The key task for educators is to prepare learners to participate creatively in today's knowledge economy. The new interdisciplinary science of learning has come to a consensus about how to structure learning environments to result in the kinds of knowledge that support creative work. In my talk I will give an introduction to the fascinating new curriculum, educational software, and classroom designs that are being used to foster creative learning.
To educate for creativity, we first need to understand the nature of innovation today. I begin my talk by explaining how creativity and innovation happen in today's knowledge economy. The core message is that innovation today is always collaborative: deeply embedded in organizations and social networks. I then outline what kind of education is most likely to result in the kinds of knowledge that underlie creative collaborative work. Graduates need a deep conceptual understanding of complex concepts, and the ability to work with them creatively to generate new ideas, new theories, new products, and new knowledge; the ability to critically evaluate what they read, to be able to express themselves clearly both verbally and in writing, and to be able to understand scientific and mathematical thinking; to acquire integrated and usable knowledge, rather than the sets of compartmentalized and decontextualized facts that all too often result from traditional instructional methods.
Dr. R. Keith Sawyer, a professor of psychology, education, and business at Washington University in St. Louis, is one of the country's leading scientific experts on creativity and the learning sciences. His new book GROUP GENIUS (Basic Books) shows us how to be more creative in collaborative group settings, how to change our organizations for the better, and how to tap into our own reserves of creativity. He is also the editor of THE CAMBRIDGE HANDBOOK OF THE LEARNING SCIENCES (Cambridge, 2006), the first overview of the new sciences of learning. His research has been featured on CNN, Fox News, TIME Magazine, and other media. A popular speaker, he lectures to corporations, associations, and universities around the world on creativity and innovation.
AFTERNOON SESSION – 1:45 pm – 4:15 pm
Robert W. Galvin presented "Three Major Innovative Strategies to Create Wealth and Solve World Problems"
http://www.galvinpower.org/
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