Thursday, March 8, 2012

How to Educate More Creative Problem-Solvers - Mirian Graddick-Weir - Harvard Business Review


Subject: How to Educate More Creative Problem-Solvers - Mirian Graddick-Weir - Harvard Business Review

To continue my recent comments on 21st century skills, this Harvard Business Review blog addresses the problem that seems to afflict "education for innovation." We see that calls for better STEM education, but in the past that education has focused on memorizing existing knowledge rather than gaining experience questioning and designing methods of answering those questions (which is at the heart of STEM practices).

I have become convinced there is a bottle neck in every community- some one (yes it is always a person) who is limited by his or her past experiences or his or her misunderstanding of innovation and the nature of STEM who prevents all efforts to design innovative (and innovation-encouraging pedagogy). Until those people are removed from the mix, we seem doomed in these efforts.



- Dr. Gary Ackerman

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