Month: July 2009

Artistry and right brain thinking is important

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The skills we learnt at school won’t equip our children going forward. Logic and left brain thinking are no longer as critical but we need to be inventive and shine at ‘artistry’, ’empathy’, ‘big picture thinking’. Today’s pace and nature of change call for a shift in the way we think about education, argued Daniel … Continued

TED – Ideas worth talking about

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We like this organisation – it has many fabulous speakers. They are holding their conference in Oxford this week. TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along … Continued