ASKING QUESTIONS, EXPLORING OPTIONS, CHANGING THE IMPACT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.

Peter Han

Peter Han has twenty years of experience consulting in the areas of Innovation, Organizational Development, Talent Development with large global industrial firms. He works with K-12 schools to inspire and enable youth to develop creative capability and character as they solve local community problems through venture projects.

Innovation

The Best Learning Experience.

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Last week this time I was saying goodbye to dozens of new found friends in Doha, Qatar. I was one of over 600 participants at the first ever TEDxSummit, a conference for organizers of local TEDx events from around the globe. (TEDx events are independently and locally produced conferences patterned after the well-known TED conferences.) During the informal socializing time between the many conference workshops, I asked just about everyone I met the same two questions: “what was your best learning experience”, “what was your worst learning experience.”

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Innovation

The Spirit Of Innovation.

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I just returned from an extraordinary convocation in San Francisco last week. The event was the 2012 Innovation Summit for the Spirit of Innovation Challenge hosted by the Conrad Foundation.

What made it extraordinary was the high caliber of innovative talent on display at the Summit. Creative problem-solving teams from some of the best high schools in the USA (and one from the Isle of Man) convened to present their innovative solutions to problems in the areas of aerospace exploration, clean energy, and health & nutrition. Each team presented on stage to a panel of industry experts which then engaged each team in questions and answers.

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Innovation

Six Common Objects, Six Billion Possibilities.

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Consider these six common objects:

1) a pencil

2) a plastic water bottle

3) a plastic shopping bag

4) a piece of rubber band

5) a paper clip.

6) a sheet of white paper, 8.5 inches Ă— 11 inches in size

What can you make out of these objects that is whimsical, artistic or practical?

Two weeks ago I launched the “Six Common Objects, Six Billion Possibilities” project for middle and high school classes within iEARN and already have as participants teachers and their students from Oman, Belarus, Lithuania, Canada, USA, Japan and Romania.

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Innovation

Oholene.

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This week I would like to share with you the following:

“ oholene “

It’s a brainteaser that caught my attention yesterday.  (Spoiler alert: I reveal at least one solution in the last paragraph of this article).

As you try to solve it, pay attention to what your mind is doing as it tries to make sense of this puzzle. What comes first to you mind? A word, a picture, a sound, or a feeling? What does your mind do next? Try following you mind’s meanderings as you try to solve this brainteaser.  I encourage you to spend a few focused minutes doing this.

Why did this brainteaser catch my attention? Two reasons. I struggled to solve it and I paid attention to my mind’s meanderings as I struggled. What I discovered delighted me.

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School House

Practicing Humility, One Wallet at a Time.

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How does being humble help one become more creative?

Being humble entails putting aside our assumptions, preconceptions and convictions about what the world ought to be and what our rightful place in that world ought to be. Being humble requires us to quiet our egos for the moment to listen, observe and learn from the viewpoints of others. When we do so, we discover a myriad of ideas and revelations that would have otherwise remained hidden to us.

During the first week of SPICE Class at Carl Wunsche Sr. High School, teachers Dana Tabor and Stefanie Perritt-Corso challenged their students to invent a wallet for their classmates.  Using nothing more than duct tape, electrician’s tape, cardboard, fuzzy sticks and scissors, the students created functional and attractive wallets for each other.

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