It never ceases to amaze me how much useful information is shared on Twitter. Hashtag Highlights is a weekly feature that pulls out some of the great content shared on Twitter over the last seven days.
#creativity
Feeling vs thinking: the secret to creative genius. To what extent are many of the big decisions in your life informed by your thinking, or your feeling? In this post Chris Barez-Brown considers the problem of applying our thinking to a problem too soon in preference to our gut feeling and intuition, and suggests that great creatives have developed the ability to trust their instincts.
Creativity is still underrated in business. The business world still doesn't fully appreciate the value of creativity, says leading advertising executive Phil Lader, arguing that many businesses still see creativity as "little more than a cosmetic". He also highlights the growing problem of some tech companies moving in on the work that has traditionally been undertaken by creative agencies.
#edtech (educational technology)
Is going paperless good for the classroom? When Kerry Gallagher took the plunge and moved to a fully paperless classroom she wanted to find out whether she'd made the right choice. Asking her students to share their thoughts revealed that, for many, increased use of technology had enhanced their learning.
63 things every student should know in a digital world. Sixty-three? When I first saw this I thought it would be information overload. But Terry Hick provides a series of short statements that challenge us to think about the skills and aptitudes that students will need in order to survive and thrive in an increasingly digital world. It is interesting to consider how many of these skills we expect our students to develop implicitly, and which ones it may be useful to make more explicit in programmes of learning.
