Innovation is the creation of better or more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas. Innovation refers to the use of a new idea or method, and not to the origination of the idea or method it self.
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Interdiciplinary
Interdiciplinary is the combining of two academic fields into one single discipline. In the new merge of fields and professions, the traditional boundaries between academic and non academic disciplines are often mixed.
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Johari Window
Johari Window is a model developed in the 1950’s at the University of California. It clearly shows the advantages of open communication and feedback in all forms of cooperation. By receiving feedback and being perceptive it’s possible to discover how others perceive you, your character and social acting. It’s a table of four fields; the Arena (what you know about yourself, and what other knows about you) the Facade (what I know about myself, but others don’t), the Blind Spot (what others know about me that I don’t know) and the Unknown field (what I and others don’t know about myself.)
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Kinesthetic learning
Kinesthetic learning is a learning style also referred to as tactile learning. Its learning by actually doing and practicing.
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Lateral thinking
Lateral thinking is solving problems through thinking sideways and in unexpected ways. The opposite of vertical thinking which uses a more logic, step to step based way of thinking.
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Learning styles
Learning styles are various approaches to learn and different ways absorb information. Everyone learn in different ways. Learning styles refer to that individuals learn with different effectiveness using visual, auditory and kinesthetic ways.
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Metacognition
Metacognition is the discipline of how to understand and reflect reflect about how we think, do and create. How to gain the knowledge, and how to improve it. Stephen Heppell, Professor of New Media and Education, talks about the advantages to be had, if this would be used in elementary schools. “They will do 20% better, you’ll get an extra friday every week in terms of performance. It’s absolutely a secret weapon.”
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Neuropsychology
Neuropsychology is the dicipline that explores the functions and the structure of the brain, also how the brain reacts to specific behaviours and processes.
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