{"id":1325,"date":"2017-10-10T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edvance360.com\/lms\/educations-killer-app-is-creativity\/"},"modified":"2017-10-10T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T08:42:00","slug":"educations-killer-app-is-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edvance360.com\/lms\/educations-killer-app-is-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Education’s Killer App: Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a recent Chief Learning Officer<\/em> Editor’s Letter<\/a><\/em><\/span>, Mike Prokopeak lays out the key to the future economy and how technology can enable it, not stifle it.<\/p>\n

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First he lays out the current rut: teach, test, accredit, repeat. A cycle he explains happens to<\/em> the learner, not with<\/em> them. And it’s been happening to them since first grade.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe result is an education system that resembles a massive, smokestack-topped factory churning out the newest model for the showroom floor.”<\/p>\n

While testing will always be necessary – we must ensure the right things are being taught the right way, based on evidence, questioning the outcome<\/em> of education is fair game. For companies, this means education\/training should lead to a better bottom line, a boost in sales, engaged workers and fewer, less costly mistakes. In schools, this would mean increased employment rates and GDP growth. These “bottom-line” results and the assessments we create to ensure the outcome (well-trained employees and productive participants in our economy) but end up just becoming factories of learning producing a productive product.<\/p>\n

Prokopeak believes in the future economy, driven by innovation rather than industrial production, it will be the people who use the information and resources available to make smart and unexpected decisions that make meaning. Meaning = innovation. And creativity is the killer app.<\/p>\n

He explains that technology is a powerful enabler of education by making it easier for learners to acquire knowledge but must make sure to stay out of the way of creativitiy. At Edvance360, we believe technology can enable creativity. A host of engaging, user-friendly, and inexpensive tools can be implemented to boost creativity by providing a safe environment for exploration.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are two things a CLO using Edvance360 LMS can implement immediately:<\/p>\n