The Value of Small Wins and the Progress Principle (Double Expresso)
Season 10, Episode 13 The Value of Small Wins and the Progress Principle (Part Two) “Well, kids are going to make mistakes, and what you need is the equivalent of what we saw in some of these teams. And that is celebrating failure value, celebrating what you can...
Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation in the Classroom (Double Expresso)
Season 10, Episode 13 Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation in the Classroom (Part One) “I think if you can allow your children to explore and experiment with things, even if they’re making monstrosities, they’re learning. They’re learning and...
Scratch and MIT’s Five Ps of Technology and Learning
Season 10, Episode 12 The Five Ps of Technology and Learning “Focus more on technology fluency. You know, our goal is not necessarily to have professional programmers, for instance, or professional web developers, but empower people so that they master enough of...
Nature Knows Best: Teaching Creativity Through Biomimicry
Season 10, Episode 11 Nature Knows Best: Teaching Creativity Through Biomimicry “And it’s really this ancestral practice that we as humans have been performing since time immemorial, that the indigenous people have perfected this since the dawn of time...
DEBRIEF 10(3): Opportunities, Metacognition, and the Important of Sleep
Season 10 | Debrief Episode 3 Opportunities, Metacognition, and the Important of Sleep “And maybe that really is speaking a little bit toward the blend of creativity and skills, the capacity to apply your skill set in, in the, in a creative way and know how to do...
Why Relationships Matter Most: Creativity and Student Readiness
Season 10, Episode 10 Why Relationships Matter Most: Creativity and Student Readiness “People talk about the three Rs of education, and typically that’s reading, writing, arithmetic. Three Rs of education are relationships. Relationships. Relationships like...
Thinking Critically and Creatively in Math
Season 10, Episode 9 Thinking Critically and Creatively in Math “I think something like 60% of kids going into STEM drop out in the first year. And a lot of the times that’s because of maths courses. And does that reduce the diversity of the people taking stem?...
Bringing Real World Innovation and Design to the Classroom
Season 10, Episode 7 Innovation in the Classroom “I think it goes back to looking at what is needed and when and what is the value and what is the impact. And so just because things are at our fingertips doesn’t mean that they should be the first choice of use...
The Interplay Between Creativity and Innovation
Season 10, Episode 8 The Interplay Between Creativity and Innovation “You cannot have creativity without skills because then you end up with an empty shell. Everybody can come up with an idea, but if you cannot realize it. So if you don’t have the skills to make...
Matthew Worwood
Co-Host
TMatthew Worwood is an education consultant and full-time faculty member at the University of Connecticut's Digital Media and Design Department. His research interests focus on Teacher Creativity, Co-Creativity with Generative AI, and Design Thinking.
Cyndi Burnett
Co-Host
Dr. Cyndi Burnett is the Vice-President at Curiosity 2 Create. She taught deliberate creativity at the Center for Applied Imagination at SUNY Buffalo State University for 20 years. She is the author of four books on creativity in education and co-founder of the creative thinking network.