Step Away Chatcast: Recent Episodes
Kevin Thorn
Step Away Chatcast is a series where Kevin Thorn, Deborah Thomas and Karl Kapp discuss topics around design, creativity, innovation as it applies solving learning problems, and the benefits of attending the most creative and immersive event – Step Away.
We thought it would be great to chat with all the Step Away 2019 inaugural attendees to see how they're doing one year later. We asked what were their expectations leading up to the event, any ah-ha moments they encountered, and how their current work was influenced by attending. We couldn't be more thrilled with catching up with everyone and hearing their stories!
We thought it would be great to chat with all the Step Away 2019 inaugural attendees to see how they're doing one year later. We asked what were their expectations leading up to the event, any ah-ha moments they encountered, and how their current work was influenced by attending. We couldn't be more thrilled with catching up with everyone and hearing their stories!
We thought it would be great to chat with all the Step Away 2019 inaugural attendees to see how they're doing one year later. We asked what were their expectations leading up to the event, any ah-ha moments they encountered, and how their current work was influenced by attending. We couldn't be more thrilled with catching up with everyone and hearing their stories!
We thought it would be great to chat with all the Step Away 2019 inaugural attendees to see how they're doing one year later. We asked what were their expectations leading up to the event, any ah-ha moments they encountered, and how their current work was influenced by attending. We couldn't be more thrilled with catching up with everyone and hearing their stories!
We thought it would be great to chat with all the Step Away 2019 inaugural attendees to see how they're doing one year later. We asked what were their expectations leading up to the event, any ah-ha moments they encountered, and how their current work was influenced by attending. We couldn't be more thrilled with catching up with everyone and hearing their stories!
FLOW, a concept described by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi arethose moments when you are completely absorbed in a challenging but doable task. In this episode, we try to answer this question as it applies to the Learning & Development industry.
The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile” (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990).
LEGO Serious Play is a thinking, building, and reflective set of methodologies to help visualize complex problems through 3D metaphorical storytelling.
We know a lot about how to design effective learning. And we know there is a lot of research and evidence that games can be effective in learning. Why then is it often difficult to implement a learning game? Caring about learning and caring about the effectiveness of games is the mash up question we attempt to answer in this episode.
We often get asked, "where do you get your creative ideas?" We pondered this question and dissected it down into two parts: being creative and can someone be actually taught creativity.