by Alex Terego | Jun 15, 2022 | Terego Ideation Bulletins
5500 years ago, writing helped us improve communications exponentially. Communicating an idea verbally and then relying on memory for its dissemination was one thing. Chiseling ideas in stone, marking them on wet clay tablets, or inscribing them on papyrus was...
by Alex Terego | Jun 10, 2022 | Terego Ideation Bulletins
“An organization’s ability to learn, and rapidly translate that learning into action, is the ultimate competitive advantage.” Jack Welch. Former CEO. GE. Instructional designers and teachers are on the frontlines of this movement. And adopting a learning-centric...
by Alex Terego | Jun 3, 2022 | Terego Ideation Bulletins
Teachers, Parents, and Instructional Designers; refining facts into an opinion is a high value skill in any human, but especially in children. What’s more, we all begin life knowing how to Ideate. How can any child, student, or adult learn to refine facts into...
by Alex Terego | Feb 25, 2022 | Terego Ideation Bulletins
Infoliteracy means encouraging children to be skeptical and active not gullible and passive. How? Remember that thinking is questioning, and questioning is thinking; inquiry begins the search for clarity; only interrogation can ensure that knowledge will be acquired;...
by Alex Terego | Feb 25, 2022 | Terego Ideation Bulletins
In 2018, Gallup reported, “Almost half of students who responded to the survey are engaged with school (47%), with approximately one-fourth ‘not engaged’ (29%) and the remainder ‘actively disengaged’ (24%).” Gallup also finds that 57 percent of teachers say that they...
by Alex Terego | Feb 25, 2022 | Terego Ideation Bulletins
Our children are intellectuals waiting to happen. How can you help them move from potential to actuality? Show them, persuade them, or nag them, even bribery helps, until they understand that all they have to do is simply engage with a topic using their intellect. And...
by Alex Terego | Feb 25, 2022 | Terego Ideation Bulletins
The benefits of questioning are there for all to see. We evolved into modern human beings, or Homo sapiens, ≈ 200,000 years ago because around about then our ancestors began to deploy new and improved cognitive skills; asking and answering more and better questions....
by Alex Terego | Feb 10, 2022 | Terego Ideation Bulletins
Eric Hanushek a senior fellow of education policy at Stanford University and the Hoover Foundation reports that his research reveals, “If all fifty states had improved their educational outcomes to match eighth place Minnesota, the American economy would be four...
by Alex Terego | Feb 10, 2022 | Terego Ideation Bulletins
The first thing I think about when thinking about the fact that we think is this: I am 99.99999% sure that the three-pound human Brain/Mind is where we think. And the second thought is that this thinking system must be the pinnacle of evolution so far. The Brain/Mind...
by Alex Terego | Feb 10, 2022 | Terego Ideation Bulletins
As our cerebral cortex evolved and increased in size, so did our ability to do a better job of recognizing patterns. According to Dr. Mark Mattson of Johns Hopkins University, we did this by not just expanding the raw, cognitive power available for pattern recognition...