Increasing Learning Effectiveness Through Togetherness

We Are Better Together

Doug ShawWhat Goes Around

Learning Live 2013

about.me/doug.shaw

These Things I Believe

Fear – Just enough is good enoughConnection gives us meaningFlow beats work-life balanceConversations are the bond

Vulnerability is courageProductive beats busyArtistry is underrated

The Future World of Work

Connections & RelationshipsThe Oil in the Creative, Collaborative Machine

ExperimentAdapt

©ollaboration©ommunication©reativity

Original?

Dining AloneAll my own work?

Not really:

• Colours from surroundings• Mood from feelings• Paint from Paintbox• Vibe from other people

Our ideas are informed by many things

I Am Not An Artist

I ask people:

Can you draw/paint/sketch?

They say:

I Am Not An Artist.

We are all artists, never be ashamed to admit it.

Vulnerability

Vulnerability is the path to belonging, to innovation, trust

and creativity. 85% of interviewees for Brene

Brown’s research can recall a time in school that was so

shaming it forever changed how they thought of themselves as

learners – 50% of those recollections related to art and

creativity.

Divergent Thinking

1,500The number of people tested for ability to think divergently –

researchers looking for ability at genius level

Divergent Thinking

98%The percentage of people who tested at genius level for divergent

thinking – among an audience of kindergarten aged children

Divergent Thinking

32%By age 8 – 10, the percentage showing genius level divergent

thinking had fallen to 32

Divergent Thinking

10%By age 13 - 15, the percentage showing genius level divergent

thinking had fallen to 10

Divergent Thinking

2%A similar study of people aged over 25 revealed that only 2% were

able to think divergently at genius level.

We are routinely teaching creativity and collaboration out of people.

Collaboration is human, not mechanised, not standardised.It operates in the field of mixed

feelings. Get used to it!

Further Reading

Further Reading

Buy a book. Read a book. Share a book. Repeat.

Without People – You’re Nothing

Photo Credits• Photos © Doug Shaw – except:• Cogs http://www.flickr.com/photos/pwhiddon/2435588387/ • Sunflowers http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/vincent-van-gogh-

sunflowers • Vulnerable http://www.flickr.com/photos/home_of_dreams/3581920427/ • Man Reading Book http://www.flickr.com/photos/alancleaver/4297809244/• Joe Strummer - Unknown