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I ran a printing company in NYC for 30 years. Then I taught at Parsons School of Design for 7 years. Now, I'm a grandpa, a blogger, and take on interesting projects from time to time.

The most interesting project is finding ways to mash up writing and Print (yes dead tree publishing) and printers and newspapers and place based communities. Newspapers are reogranizing. Writers are becoming freelancers on steroids. Books are being redefined.

Meanwhile, everyone has to get much smarter, much faster. Our future depends on it. The good news is that I have no doubt it will happen. Obama gets it. We get it. Eventually everyone will get it. The only question is how fast.

I would like to be part of making it happen faster.

Education > Educational Philosophy Ways to define creativity in education

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An operational definition of creativity is the ability to make new connections between ideas or stuff. The evidence of creativity is observable behavior. It could be a poem, a solution to a math problem, dancing a new dance. In education. creativity without observable behavior doesn't matter. Nor does it matter to see observable behavior without knowing the process. Giving back what has been given is not creativity. American schools have a problem. For the first time, they are being asked to graduate creatives. Our economy desparately needs young people who can think and know how to learn....

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