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Category Archives: Innovation
Education as a Gift Economy
Ideas, like viruses, come to infect our thinking. Of some, we are never cured. This post describes one I will suffer gloriously until I die….
The Most Amazing Day(s): Teaching as Experience Design
For the past few days, ever since inNOVAtion Lab’s phenomenal trip to Corbett Inc.’s Fluxspace, I’ve been trying to figure out what has been happening in class. The trip to Flux was a highlight of a very young year, and it comes on the heels of another highlight, our trip to the B.Phl Innovation Festival Continue reading “The Most Amazing Day(s): Teaching as Experience Design”
Learning in Flux: The Joy of Purpose-Based Education
At the beginning of the year, I discovered that a local design firm in my neighborhood was opening an incubator/maker/presentation/learning space in a turn of the 20th-century woollen mill. Dubbed Flux, the space was exactly what I have been trying to create in my own school, only about 7 times bigger! So I had toContinue reading “Learning in Flux: The Joy of Purpose-Based Education”
Brains, Cheetos, and a Theory of Creativity
(The final installment of my blog posts about the B.Phl Innovation Festival. Here’s the first post. Here’s the second.) On Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, 31 of the 54 students enrolled in NOVA Lab attended the third day of the first annual B.Phl Innovation Festival. While our trip was somewhat shortened (traffic on the abominable SchukyllContinue reading “Brains, Cheetos, and a Theory of Creativity”
