Advice for Creative Writers
It is better to write a bad short story than to have a good idea for a short story that you never write. Most of our posts tell a story, give a quote, or start ...
Author: Charlie Sweet
Speculating on Gender and Collaboration in Academia
Gender Studies has become a popular field in academia, but we’d like to use the term in a different way—i.e., studying the gender composition of groups. Why? Wh...
The Single Best Teaching Tip
If you wanted to reduce Walden to its most fundamental and powerful concept, you would probably cite Thoreau’s famous advice—“Simplify, simplify, simplify!” If ...
Thinking About The “Be Creative!” Effect
Has anyone, particularly a teacher, ever said to you, “Be creative!”? Probably not. Most of the instructions we receive in our P-20 years ask for recall of spe...
One Activity To Develop 9 Creative Thinking Strategies
Is there one exercise that acts as a super-food for the applied creative thinking regimen? (Tweet this quote.) Perhaps the power of blueberries and such dietar...
How Creative Are Today’s Students?
The current The Chronicle of Higher Education (22 August 2014), the so-called annual almanac issue, contains in interesting item under “A Profile of Freshmen at...
5 Tips On How To Mentor As An Academic Facilitator
Perhaps in the most pedestrian of roles, the mentor functions as facilitator both inside and outside the classroom. Inside, the mentor is responsible for runnin...