2. “The Future of Teaching And the Myths That Hold It Back” by Guy Claxton | MLE / CCE Talk
3.Complimentary webinar The future of teaching by Guy Claxton 3rd May 2021
Claxton quoting Hattie in this interview “Unless we pay specific explicit attention to the cultivation of learning dispositions they don’t happen by themselves”
The concept of “constraints” is built into the construct of creativity itself
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Constraints in a general sense may be taken as restrictive. But in a complexity perspective constraints have a different understanding. Here, it is important to understand constraints are enabling too. They create opportunities for action, thoughts, and creation. Order in human life is primarily created through constraints. “It is not something which merely limits possibilities, constraints are also enabling. By eliminating certain possibilities, others are introduced” (Paul Cilliers, 1998). For example, take the case of road traffic. Without conventions that shape how we drive(left or right), as well as our expectations of other drivers, smooth road transport will not be possible. Take the example of HTML, a constrained protocol that allows us to use the web. A cricket game works as a game because of various constraints like cricket ground, various constrained roles like a bowler, batsman, fielder, keeper, etc, and various associated rules that govern the game. Without this, we wouldn’t have cricket as a game. Therefore, constraints not only remove or limit options but also create or enable order and new possibilities.
The concept of "constraints" is built into the construct of creativity itself (Sternberg and Kaufman, 2010).
Also scholars have argued that without constraints, there can be no creativity(Dyer, Gregersen, and Christensen, 2009; Johnson-Laird, 1988). https://t.co/CPxYcf2dn6
The mentioning of constraints as enabling can also be found in mainstream entrepreneurship research, for e.g. The idea of entrepreneurial Bricolage (Baker and Nelson, 2005) shows how entrepreneurs exploit opportunities despite resource constraints. Further, constraints have found an important place in the research on creativity, in that the concept of “constraints” is built into the construct of creativity itself (Sternberg and Kaufman, 2010). Research also has consistently found that without constraints, there can be no creativity (Dyer, Gregersen, and Christensen, 2009; Johnson-Laird, 1988). Both theoretical and empirical contributions investigating the entwinement of creativity and constraints exemplify the dual role of constraints, as constraints can be both limiting and enabling in creative processes.
According to Innovation Historian Anton Howes, “Absent any exposure to inventors, people simply don’t become inventors. Knowing about invention as an activity is a necessary precondition to becoming an inventor yourself”
This compelling newsletter by Anton explores deep into the nature of innovation by using historical perspective.
"Absent any exposure to inventors, people simply don’t become inventors. Knowing about invention as an activity is a necessary precondition to becoming an inventor yourself" @antonhoweshttps://t.co/BBIyrLRBtI
Balearic Islands cave goat had no predators for many generations of their evolution that their eyes moved from the side of their heads to forward-facing. The species had gone extinct when new stressors showed up (predators, humans, and others).
I was thinking recently about the social and business versions of this goat.
Companies like Kodak, My-Space, Blockbuster, Blackberry, etc., all fit the Goat category in my view.
(Related Note: According to a forecast by Innosight, the average company will only last just 12 years on the S&P 500 by 202)
“Creativity must, in the last analysis, be seen not as something happening within a person but in the relationships within a system”
“An idea or product that deserves the label creative arises from the synergy of many sources and not only from the mind of a single person. It is easier to enhance creativity by changing conditions in the environment than by trying to make people think more creatively…And a genuinely creative accomplishment is almost never the result of a sudden insight, a lightbulb flashing on in the dark, but comes after years of hard work.”
2 great quotes by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on creativity and its embeddedness with environment.⬇️ 1# "Creativity must, in the last analysis, be seen not as something happening within a person but in the relationships within a system"
2# "An idea or product that deserves the label creative arises from the synergy of many sources and not only from the mind of a single person. It is easier to enhance creativity by changing conditions in the environment than by trying to make people think more creatively…..
….And a genuinely creative accomplishment is almost never the result of a sudden insight, a lightbulb flashing on in the dark, but comes after years of hard work."
In entrepreneurship creative (resource) constraints manifest into Entrepreneurial Bricolage. ( Levi Strauss,Ted Baker and Reed Nelson).
Some aspects of Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation also points to constraints lead choice leading to industry disruption.
In entrepreneurship creative (resource) constraints manifest into Entrepreneurial Bricolage. ( Levi Strauss,Ted Baker and Reed Nelson)
Some aspects of Clayton Christensen's disruptive innovation also points to constraints lead choice leading to industry disruption. https://t.co/tVYAPgxb7N
