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For my blog post today, I have been assigned the following prompt: Reflect on the readings for this week and discuss different ways that you could incorporate creativity into the instructional activities for the learners you work with within your organization. Now, as I am not an instructor, this one is going to be a little tricky. Still, I have decided to pretend to be an instructor in the field of Cybersecurity as it closely aligns with my background and…
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creativity / cyber-security / Cybersecurity / EDTC / EDTC 683 / EDTC*683 / education / EducationalTechnology / security / Technology¶¶¶¶¶
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Using the chapter titled Connessione from the “How to think like Leonardo da Vinci” book by Michael J. Gelb, I have set off to write a blog post about an exercise from that chapter. The exercise is named Family Dynamics and reads as such: “Contemporary psychology emphasizes the importance of understanding the “system dynamics” of your family to better understand yourself. In your search for wholeness and self-knowledge, you can gain valuable insight by contemplating the following questions about your…
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creativity / da Vinci / EDTC / EDTC 683 / EDTC*683 / family / family dynamics / lifestyle / mental-health / relationships / stress¶¶¶¶¶
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Blogging Prompt:“How are you seeing creativity in the students/learners that you work with on a regular basis? What is at least one issue/problem that you are seeing in your school/organization that needs improvement? How could you use methods such as personal analogy method or the fantasy method to address?” As a Director of Information Technology in higher education, my interactions with students may not be as frequent as those of educators, but the impact of my decisions of students learning…
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For the purpose of this blog post, I have gone through the creative prompts given by the author Michael J. Gelb in his book “How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci,” pages 154-155. In this reading, the author writes about the concept of “Creative Confusion Endurance” which in my review talks about embracing dualities in life to help foster creativity. It is suggested that one can develop greater creative insight by acknowledging and wrestling with life’s paradoxes. I believe that…
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A blogging task for me this week is to pick two examples from the Sensazione chapter of the book “How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci.” I have decided to pick Listening for Silence and What Do You Smell Right Now exercises from the book. Let’s start with Listening for Silence. Tonight was a typical evening for me at home. My wife had made dinner for all of us, and I joined my family at the table. As my wife…


