by Dan Hunter | Jun 8, 2022 | You Can Only Imagine
Are you ever tangled up in a tough problem, sleep on it, and then wake up with a solution? Do ideas come to you in the shower, on a walk, or doing the dishes? These ideas come to you through incubation—a time of mental rest (or distraction) with no conscious...
by Dan Hunter | Aug 13, 2020 | You Can Only Imagine
“What I expect now is something as dramatic is going to happen, not so much in medicine but in economy and culture.” — Gianna Pomata, Institute of the History of Medicine, at Johns Hopkins University. Pandemics force people to change how...
by Dan Hunter | Jul 23, 2020 | You Can Only Imagine
“This is about lack of imagination.” Ali S. Khan, of the National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases, New Yorker, May 4, 2020 The Coronavirus pandemic caught the world by surprise and found us unprepared. Dr. Khan is not alone in his assessment:...
by Dan Hunter | Jul 6, 2020 | You Can Only Imagine
This fall, schools face a dilemma: should teachers address time lost to Covid-19 by returning to the goals of spring 2020. Or should schools push students to master the 2020 test standards and push to prepare for 2021 tests? But the standards are fundamentally...
by Dan Hunter | Jun 5, 2020 | You Can Only Imagine
Like the U.S., Canada has been thrust into a national educational experiment in distance learning. However, long before the arrival of Covid-19, the Ontario Ministry of Education was pushing to increase online learning in the name of “digital literacy.” In January...
by Dan Hunter | May 14, 2020 | You Can Only Imagine
The coronavirus has turned American education into a vast uncharted experiment, in which we are all both the experimenters and the guinea pigs. As one teacher commented in Education Week about the move to remote, on-line learning, we are “operating in the wild,...
by Dan Hunter | Jul 31, 2019 | You Can Only Imagine
By Stanley Rosenberg and Dan Hunter Originally published in Commonwealth: Nonprofit Journal of Politics, Ideas, and Civic Life on June 1, 2019 TODAY WE MUST educate children for jobs that don’t yet exist, using technologies that haven’t been invented. The...
by Dan Hunter | Apr 10, 2019 | You Can Only Imagine
Now! After centuries of mystery! Get the low-down on the throw-down showdown! Artificial intelligence to the rescue! The ancient Japanese game of janken, known as rock-paper-scissors in English, has been mastered by a robot powered by artificial intelligence. Don’t...
by Dan Hunter | Apr 9, 2019 | You Can Only Imagine
You’ve just enjoyed a standup comedy routine or watched a comedy in the theater. Maybe, you even laughed until you cried. You feel good. (wriggly) Why do humans laugh? What causes the laughter? What is the state of laughing science? (puffball) E.B. and Katherine...
by Dan Hunter | Nov 1, 2018 | You Can Only Imagine
“Can you teach people to be creative?” is the wrong question. “Can you teach people to use their imagination more productively?” That’s a better question. But, if your goal is educate imaginative people to generate ideas that lead to creativity, then it’s still not...
