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Increasing Learning Effectiveness
Through Togetherness
We Are Better Together
Doug Shaw
What Goes Around
Learning Live 2013

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about.me/doug.shaw

3.
These Things I Believe
Fear – Just enough is good enough
Connection gives us meaning
Flow beats work-life balance
Conversations are the bond
Vulnerability is courage
Productive beats busy
Artistry is underrated

4.
The Future World of Work
Connections & Relationships
The Oil in the Creative,
Collaborative Machine
Experiment
Adapt

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©ollaboration
©ommunication
©reativity

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Original?
Dining Alone
All 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

7.
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.

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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.

9.
Divergent Thinking
1,500
The number of people tested for ability to think divergently –
researchers looking for ability at genius level

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Divergent Thinking
98%
The percentage of people who tested at genius level for divergent
thinking – among an audience of kindergarten aged children

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Divergent Thinking
32%
By age 8 – 10, the percentage showing genius level divergent
thinking had fallen to 32

12.
Divergent Thinking
10%
By age 13 - 15, the percentage showing genius level divergent
thinking had fallen to 10

13.
Divergent Thinking
2%
A similar study of people aged over 25 revealed that only 2% were
able to think divergently at genius level.

14.
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!

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Further Reading

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Further Reading

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

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Without People – You’re Nothing

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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