Dojo - Safe Place to Practice - and Maximize Learning

Dojo – a safe place to Practice. Maximize creativity and learning outcomes.  The term Dojo can refer to a formal training gathering place for students of any Japanese martial arts style such as karate, judo, or samurai, to conduct training, examinations and other related encounters.  It is used today for any type of learning. It is a place where we enjoy learning, using new teaching methodologies that maximize creativity, active learning, share ideas, make mistakes, solve problems, promote an environment of respect and learning and have fun.

Daydreaming Employees- Great Cognitive and Productivity Booster

When do you get your best ideas? When you're sitting at your desk striving for an answer, or when you're doing something off-task like driving, walking, or puttering around the house? Humans are a daydreaming species. A daydream is that fountain spurting, spilling strange new thoughts into the stream of consciousness. And these spurts turn out to be surprisingly useful. Those who are more prone to mind-wandering tend to be better at generating new ideas. 

If this all sounds like scientific justification for afternoon naps, long showers, and Russian literature, you’re right.

The Agile Dream Club

Agilists and dreams "if we are as good at dreaming as, say, Steve Jobs, we will imagine the yet-more-perfect solution to the problem."

Agile/Lean - Fail Early, Fail Fast, Fail Often

"That day, the Wright brothers finally arrived at an ultimate success, but the path was filled with disappointing detours and a daunting string of failures. Innovation and failure go hand in hand. With technology and business cycles moving so quickly, companies no longer have the luxury of waiting a year or more to release a product into the marketplace. As a result, companies are embracing new techniques and approaches in an effort to compress their internal product development cycles to match the external cycles of the market.

Flipped Classroom

Flipped Classroom is currently the hottest topic in higher education teaching and learning. Universities are consumed with finding the best ways to turn traditional education upside down by using the shared time in the classroom in ways that are as active, dynamic, and engaging as possible, while leaving the reading and lecture watching for students to cover at home. So what is the best, most efficient way to introduce the flipped classroom?

Creativity is not only right - Left Brain vs. Right Brain

There is a long held belief supported by neurological data that personality traits and how a person analyzes information depends highly on whether they are right- or left-brained thinkers. is it? When it comes to left Brain versus right, do you mean left front, left middle, left rear? We now understand that when it comes to creativity it's not just left-right, it's also up-down - it's the whole brain.

Not Just Online Education - Hands On Online Education

Online lectures by video are fine for conveying facts, formulas and concepts, and they are a true revolution. But by themselves they cannot help anyone learn how to put those ideas into practice. “We're in a place that we can begin to think about education in a whole new way.”