lateral thinking -

problem solving

study success

fail, fail again. fail better.

Samuel Beckett

lateral thinking

see old things in new ways

“vu ja de”

when you feel or act as if an experience is brand new

looking at the same thing as everybody else and thinking something different

war

bullet holes and airplanes

get something out of your bag

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what could the object in the bag be used for?

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consider how this could relate to your own work - have a “vu de” moment daily

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thinking in different ways

increase variance in available knowledge

Skyline

“you can’t get good ideas without having a lot of dumb, lousy and crazy ones - nobody is good at guessing what is a waste of time” MD

think of an issue – activity –

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as a group write down new ideas around the issue

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later look at your days work and write down as many ideas around what you are working on - to use for another day

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innovation

finding new uses for old ideas

silkscreen sandwiches

consider some examples of things you have been involved in today that were innovative

consider the last time you innovated something

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list some examples of things you have been involved in today that are innovative

consider the last time you innovated something

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break from the past

rethinking

t bags

groups – choose either

scissorschairscarfshoes

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re think……..

practicegroups - re think…….. later write down examples of rethinking or seeing something new in what you do even if you can’t follow it through just yet.

bringing old ideas to people who have never seen them before

gather knowledge from diverse sources and then finding out how it might be put

to new uses

as a group what knowledge have you gathered from your research that could be rethought or recontextualised?

consider how this thinking might inform your practice.

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as a group what knowledge have you gathered from your research that could be rethought or recontextualised?

consider how this thinking might inform your practice.

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inventing new combinations of existing ideas hybrid

steam engine + boat = steam boat

as a group make up hybrids.

consider in your own work how you might bring things together to make new

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as a group make up hybrids.

consider in your own work how you might bring things together to make new

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finally

threshold concept

the question is not what you look at, but what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

I realised that my competition was paper, not computers.

Jeff Hawkins, describing the key insight that led his team

to design the PalmPilot

write down an example of a breakthrough moment.

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this is something that you could consider in your reflective journal - daily, weekly, unit, semester, year

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