Tag Archives: lifelong learning

If you build it, they will come: the importance of infrastructure for creativity and innovation

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Katherine Wikoff

Here’s a little factoid I’d forgotten about until my husband and I were discussing the recent Presidential debates between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney: The famous series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas were not held during the … Continue reading →

Posted in WPLongform (posts of 1000 words or longer), Writing, blogging | Tagged Aristotle, business, creativity, curiosity, education, enthymeme versus syllogism, enthymemes, five paragraph theme, form and content, industry, innovation, Jonah Lehrer, lifelong learning, Lincoln-Douglas debates, marshall mcluhan, Nixon-Kennedy debate, politics, rhetoric, rhetoric of the open hand, the medium is the message, WPLongform, writing | 1 Comment

Learning without teachers: “The Doubting Game” versus “The Believing Game”

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Katherine Wikoff

Back in the early 1970s, the college writing classroom was a touchy-feely environment, occasionally subject to instruction through experiential events called “happenings,” which were basically instances of hippie-era performance art. In a “happening,” students engaged in random, unorganized activities like flicking the classroom … Continue reading →

Posted in Books and reading | Tagged Ernest Hemingway, innovation, leadership, learning, lifelong learning, negative capability, Peter Elbow, Steve Jobs, The Doubting Game and The Believing Game, Writing Without Teachers | 5 Comments

Success through failure

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Katherine Wikoff

The “Review” section of yesterday’s Wall Street Journal contained an interesting short article by Ken Bain, titled “Flummoxed by Failure – or Focused,” which was primarily about the un-fixed nature of intelligence. Most people are just about as smart as … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Apple University, creativity, failure, Henry Petroski, innovation, intelligence, Ken Bain, lifelong learning, Pixar University, Randy Nelson, resilience | 3 Comments

Tag Archives: lifelong learning

If you build it, they will come: the importance of infrastructure for creativity and innovation

Learning without teachers: “The Doubting Game” versus “The Believing Game”

Success through failure

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