Another InventSchool Training Center at KorPhil IT Center in Novaliches opens soon
March 2, 2009 – 3:13 pmLikhaan Newsletter No. 53 February 2009
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Likhaan Newsletter No. 53 February 2009
Year 24 ▪ Number 53 eMail Edition
QUEZON CITY, METRO-MANILA, PHILIPPINES February 2009
The InventSchool@KorPhil
Another InventSchool™ Training Center at KorPhil IT Center in Novaliches opens soon
Another InventSchool™ Training Center will soon open at Korea-Philippines Information Technology Center (KorPhil) in Novaliches, Quezon City. A memorandum of agreement between KorPhil and The InventSchool International, Inc. (TISI) is now being worked out for the operation of the training center. The training center will be known as The InventSchool@KorPhil.
In a recent meeting between KorPhil and TISI, it was agreed that the new training center will offer Scientific and Technological Creativity (SciTeC™), an education program of The InventSchool™, with special focus on information technology (IT). The SciTeC™ regular program consists of four (4) core courses. These are the following:
SciTec 1 (Basic) - Introduction to Creativity and Thinking (ICT), SciTec 2 (Primary) - Idea Generation and Creative Development (IGCD), SciTec 3 (Intermediate) - Creative Research and Invention Development (CRID) and SciTec 4 (Advanced) - Inventerprise Development & Venture Management (IDVM).
Two supplementary/complementary courses are attached to the core SciTeC™ program. These are: 1) Continuing SciTeC™, subject matters dealing with continuing developments in human creativity and thinking skills, and technological invention development; and 2) Special SciTeC™ courses deals with special topics relevant to scientific and technological creativity and industrial innovations.
The setting up of The InventSchool™ Training Centers in technological institutions and educational centers in Metro Manila and other major cities and municipalities of the Philippines is part of the extension program of The InventSchool™ International, Inc. (TISI).
TISI is also establishing The InventSchool™ Learning Centers in schools, colleges and universities that are willing to offer the InventSchool™ training program. TISI trains the faculty members assigned by the school administration for the operation of the learning centers and the implementation of its training courses.
The InventSchool™ Training Center @ KorPhil is located inside the campus of Quezon City Polytechnic University (QCPU), Quirino Highway, Barangay San Bartolome in Novaliches.
[For more information on the setting up of InventSchool™ training/learning centers, contact The Likhaan Group, Inc. See Likhaan Newsletter No. 51, December 2008, for the complete list of InventSchool™ training courses. Contact us regarding the training/learning centers that currently offer said courses.]
Q&A:
The InventSchool™ Training & Learning Centers
Where and how can The InventSchool™ Training and Learning Centers be established?
The InventSchool™ Learning Center (TILC) is a local InventSchool™ set up in any school, college or university in the Philippines. It can be established by volunteer teachers and student assistants in any duly recognized school. The teachers shall arrange an agreement between The InventSchool™ International and the administration of their school. The agreement should cover the following: Regular conduct of The InventSchool™ training programs/courses, organization of InventClub™ and InventSchool™ Faculty Organization, free use of classrooms for creative education/courses and research laboratories, if any, for inventive research work by students and faculty members, and other support and assistance necessary for the successful implementation of the InventSchool™ and the promotion of inventive activities.
On the other hand, The InventSchool™ Training Center (TITC) is a local InventSchool™ set up in any technological institution, business organization, industrial firm, or private/government educational centers. The requirements for setting up the training center are similar to the establishment of learning centers.
How does The InventSchool™ Training and Learning Centers operate?
The InventSchool™ Training and Learning Centers operate like a quasi department or unit of a cooperating school, college or university, and technological institution, business/industrial companies and non-government organization. It offers regularly the course programs without academic credit. Successful students and faculty members, employees and other participants, receive certificate of attendance or completion for every course taken. Those who are able to complete the Basic, Primary, Intermediate and Advanced courses in the SciTeC™ Course Program shall be awarded a “Diploma in Scientific and Technological Creativity” or “Diploma in Inventerprise Development” by The InventSchool™ Philippines. While those who are able to complete the Basic, Primary, Intermediate and Advanced courses in the SinCom™ Course Program shall be awarded a “Diploma in Social Invention and Community Innovation” or “Diploma in Social Entrepreneurship and Community Development.”
Professors/instructors and officers/employees of the cooperating/sponsoring schools and business-industrial organizations are trained continuously by The InventSchool™ to handle InventSchool™ courses on a regular basis. Summer institutes for teachers and individuals involved in the InventSchool course programs are held every year at the national or regional centers. A roving team of lecturers-trainers handles the teacher/instructor training courses.
The InventSchool™ Training and Learning Centers normally operate with at least three (3) to five (5) trainers and two (2) student/employee assistants.
JOIN THE
Summer Institute
ON EDUCATION FOR SCIENTIFIC-
TECHNOLOGICAL CREATIVITY
AND SOCIAL INVENTION
FOR TEACHERS & STUDENTS
May 23-24, 2009, Baguio City
Contact: The InventSchool™
Quezon City Academy Campus, 144 EDSA, QC
Telephone No. 437-2045
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Summer Institute for Teachers and Students
Likhaan holds the Third Summer Institute
on Education for Scientific-Technological Creativity and Social Invention
The Likhaan Group, Inc. through The InventSchool™ will be conducting the 3rd Summer Institute on Education for Scientific-Technological Creativity and Social Invention (SumIns) on May 23-24 in Baguio City.
The Summer Institute presents a detailed study of three major topics: Thinking, Creativity, and Creative Teaching for Teachers and Creative Learning for Students. The general intention of SumIns is to assist teachers-educators and students in becoming more aware of their own creativity and the creative process, in nurturing their individual/group creativeness, and in better understanding how they may help to nurture creativity in others. The Institute explains the uses of creativity by providing information on its nature; analysis of the qualities and characteristics of the creative personality; description of the operational mechanisms behind the creative process; and presentation of ideational tools and techniques for generating ideas and developing creative products and social innovations. It also spells out the purpose and usefulness of perceptive thinking and the deliberate method of creative thinking. It also illustrates the principles of creative teaching and the importance of educational innovations.
The first SumIns was held in May 1989 at the Mapua Institute of Technology in Manila, while the second SumIns was conducted in May 2000 at the Quezon City Academy.
The course outline of the 3rd SumIns are as follows:
Opening Session: Promoting Inventiveness and Creative Learning Through The InventSchool™
0.1 The Need to Promote Inventiveness and Creative Learning
0.2 Introduction to The InventSchool™
Topic 1: The Need for Creativity and Thinking Skills
1.1 The Need for Teaching Creativity and Learning to Think
1.2 The Crucial Task of Training the Intelligently Proactive Mind
1.3 ‘Teachability’ of Creativity and ‘Learnability’ of Thinking
Topic 2: The Nature of Thinking
2.1 Concept of Thinking
2.2 Patterning System of the Human Mind
2.3 Thinking Behavior, Structures and Process
2.4 Styles, Types and Modes of Thinking
2.5 Elements of Thinking
2.6 Thinking and Creativity
Topic 3: Developing Perceptive Thinking Skills
3.1 Perception and Thinking – What is Perceptive Thinking?
3.2 Inadequacies in Perception and Errors in Thinking
3.3 Developing Skills in Perceptive Thinking
3.4 Perceptive Thinking Tools and Techniques
3.5 Formula for Improving Your Thinking Ability
Topic 4: The Nature of Human Creativity
4.1 Concepts of Creativity
4.2 Sources of Creativity
4.3 Principal Aspects of Human Creativity
4.4 Creativity and Intelligence
4.5 Psychological Structure of the Creative Behavior
Topic 5: Developing Creative Thinking Skills
5.1 What is Creative Thinking?
5.2 Barriers to Creative Thinking
5.3 Developing Creative Thinking
5.4 Stages of Creative Transformation
5.5 Developing Skills in Creative Thinking Using Ideation Tools and Techniques
Workshop: General Application of Perceptive and Creative Thinking Tools & Techniques
Special Session: Definition of Technological or Technical Invention and Social Invention
1) What is a Technical Invention or Technological Innovation?
2) What is a Social Invention?
Topic 6: Introduction to Creative Teaching [Learning] and Educational Innovations
6.1 Creativity and Teaching [Learning]
6.2 Introduction to the Principles of Creative Teaching [Learning]
6.3 The Importance of Educational Innovations
Focused Workshop: Application of Perceptive and Creative Thinking Tools & Techniques in Teaching-Learning and Educational Innovation
Special Topic: The Teachers, Students and The InventSchool™ Program
1) The InventSchool™ Program – The Teachers and the Students
2) Establishing and Operating the Local InventSchool™
3) The Local InventSchool™ Program of Activities
4) The InventSchool™ Program Implementation Scheme
Concluding Topic: Opening Doorways to Creative Teaching, Innovative Learning and Inventive Creativity
1) The InventSchool™ Opens Doorways to Creative Teaching, Innovative Learning and Inventive Activity
2) Setting Up the Local InventSchool™
Closing Session: Summary and Feedback
1) Summary of the Training Program
2) Feedback
The Summer Institute ends with a fellowship.