Creativity & Futuring Tools

What’s Your School’s Sentence

Posted by Blake on May 20, 2010 at 12:57 am

At the release of Daniel Pink’s new book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us , he also released this short video that introduces a major concept from the book.  In the video, Pink encourages the viewer/reader to ask 2 questions.  The first being: “What’s your sentence?”; and the second being “Was I better [...]

Learning Event Generator

Posted by Blake on April 14, 2010 at 6:51 am

The Learning Event Generator developed by John Davitt is truly a 21st Century Learning Tool.  Not only is it perfectly relevant to this generation of learners but it’s perfect way for anyone to understand the power of the convergence of project-based-learning with that of digital technologies.  This tool in particular is truly difficult to editorialize, [...]

Evaluating an Idea

Posted by Blake on April 14, 2010 at 6:30 am

There are a number of evaluation tools that can be used to evaluate an entire organization, a new process, or even a single idea.  While many have heard of a SWOT Assessment, which stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats.  A similar but less known affirmative evaluation tool is called PPCo.  The first P stands [...]