In today s multimedia and reduced attention-span generation, teachers and material developers need to liven up their lessons with innovative new ideas. By unlocking the key to creative thinking these professionals can turn on their light to creating new tricks to turn on their students lights, too. Creativity is many things to many people. To cut through a library of material, what we are trying to do is find new and improved ways of teaching our subject. People get in a rut.
People make too many assumptions.
That I can t help. But as to getting out of ruts and combating assumptions, we need to try new things, look at our subject in new ways. Most importantly, not be afraid to make mistakes. Each of these gentlemen made many or big mistakes. Yet, they stumbled across America, made a working light bulb, discovered penicillin, and invented no-knock gasoline.