Imagination Lab
Imagination Lab

Author: Sandhya Nankani

Publisher: Literary Safari

Published: 2021-01-25

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 0578847302

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Imagination Lab: Experiments in Creativity is the perfect, interactive companion to The Story Seeds Podcast (The Week Junior Magazine's 2020 Podcast of the Year) where diverse and award-winning children's authors create stories dreamed up by kids! With over 80 pages, this interactive activity book has: -QR codes to launch listening for each episode of the podcast and bonus content -Graphic organizers -Flash fiction, poetry, and non-fiction writing prompts -Makerspace projects & DIY STEAM experiments -Exclusive writing tips from the 10 best-selling and diverse children's authors featured on Season One, including Chris Grabenstein, Veera Hiranandani, Tracey Baptiste, Carlos Hernandez, Aram Kim, and Jason Reynolds -PLUS! Curriculum connections and learning standards! Ideal for at home fun, distance learning, or classroom use, this activity book brings the best of a magazine, workbook, and journal together. It also provides a techie yet screenfree experience for kids to keep them growing their imaginations while building listening skills (which research shows is crucial to improving reading). Just scan a QR code to launch an adventure in listening, reading, writing, and creativity! About the podcast: The Story Seeds Podcast™ matches kids 6-12 with diverse and best-selling children's authors to grow their story ideas into original stories. It has been featured on Spotify's Family-Friendly Fun playlist and Apple Podcast's Shows for Kids curations! It has also received praise from The New York Times, Book Riot (10 best Bookish Podcasts), Wired (Best Kids Podcasts for Sheltering in Place), CBC (7 Kids Podcasts that are Perfect for Family Listening), Fatherly (The Best Podcasts for Kids that Adults will Like Too), and Common Sense Media (19 Great Learning Podcasts for Classrooms) and the educational platform Listenwise, which creates curriculum to support listening comprehension.

Inspiration
Inspiration

Author: N. Ind

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-06-14

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 0230510884

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This book is about how organizations can best develop and manage a creative environment and creative potential. The authors argue that organizations consist of people who have creative potential to think in new ways and yet are often denied the opportunity to do so. The goal of the organization should be to create a structure and culture that encourages the conditions in which creativity can flourish. This will generate significant competitive advantages for the organization by offering clear differentiation, by communicating postive brand attributes to stakeholders that will strengthen the organization's intangible assets and by providing a creative and challenging environment that will attract and retain the best staff.

Creative Space
Creative Space

Author: Andrzej P. Wierzbicki

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-12-02

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9783540284581

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Creative Space summarizes and integrates the various up-to-date approaches of computational intelligence to knowledge and technology creation including the specific novel feature of utilizing the creative abilities of the human mind, such as tacit knowledge, emotions and instincts, and intuition. It analyzes several important approaches of this new paradigm such as the Shinayakana Systems Approach, the organizational knowledge creation theory, in particular SECI Spiral, and the Rational Theory of Intuition – resulting in the concept of Creative Space. This monograph presents and analyzes in detail this new concept together with its ontology – the list and meanings of the analyzed nodes of this space and of the character of transitions linking these nodes.

The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination
The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination

Author: Anna Abraham

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-06-18

Total Pages: 865

ISBN-13: 1108429246

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The human imagination manifests in countless different forms. We imagine the possible and the impossible. How do we do this so effortlessly? Why did the capacity for imagination evolve and manifest with undeniably manifold complexity uniquely in human beings? This handbook reflects on such questions by collecting perspectives on imagination from leading experts. It showcases a rich and detailed analysis on how the imagination is understood across several disciplines of study, including anthropology, archaeology, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and the arts. An integrated theoretical-empirical-applied picture of the field is presented, which stands to inform researchers, students, and practitioners about the issues of relevance across the board when considering the imagination. With each chapter, the nature of human imagination is examined - what it entails, how it evolved, and why it singularly defines us as a species.

Innovating Strategy Processes
Innovating Strategy Processes

Author: Steven W. Floyd

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-02-09

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1405142561

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Innovating Strategy Process presents a series of reflective essays by established and emerging scholars on the subject of innovation, considering it both as an outcome of strategy and as a process in itself. Contains new ideas and rich case descriptions that will trigger creative thinking about how to design a more innovative strategy process. Offers new conceptual frameworks for analyzing and designing strategy process. Addresses cutting-edge topics, such as play as the means and art as the impetus for strategy-making; the role of emotion in new venture decision-making; and science and entrepreneurship as a source of innovative strategies. Signals the future direction of the field.

The Playful University
The Playful University

Author: Rikke Toft Nørgård

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-12-12

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1040147356

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This book provides philosophical, political and practical insights that open ways for the university in going beyond its tightly controlled state and into more playful and imaginative futures. In the context of a marketised and regulated environment that stifles creativity and curiosity in higher education, this collection provides an antidote that lies in the potential of play. It identifies tactics and tools for playful practices to conjure real utopias and pathways for the present and possible futures. Pulling together global perspectives from a wide array of different disciplines including higher education, sociology, philosophy, media studies, design, literature, play studies, game studies and political science, it concludes with a collaborative chapter that offers philosophically and theoretically grounded principles for the playful university. The book shows that it is possible to reimagine a higher education in which students and staff approach their studies with a sense of purpose, care, and openness to explore, imagine and build a better future. Looking beyond pedagogy to imagination, and wonder as important perspectives within the university, this is an essential read for those interested in play and subversion in higher education.

Raising a Self-Reliant Child
Raising a Self-Reliant Child

Author: Alanna Levine

Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.

Published: 2013-05-07

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1607743507

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A national spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics arms parents with the tools they need to teach and model independence for their children as part of their everyday routine so that their children develop both the confidence and skills they need to try things on their own . Original.

The New Strategic Landscape
The New Strategic Landscape

Author: Julie Verity

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-10-18

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 113728336X

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The business challenges of organizations are increasingly complex; strategists need a rich choice of approaches in order to respond. Too few strategy models challenge the dominate paradigm of rational analysis, choice maximisation and planned implementation. This rich collection from an eclectic group of strategists provides alternatives.