Likhaan Group

The InventSchool@KorPhil offers free lecture on creativity and inventiveness for educators, teachers and college students

March 29, 2009 – 12:20 am

Likhaan Newsletter No. 54 March 2009

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Likhaan offers free lecture-workshop

on “Creativity and Thinking”

The Likhaan Group offers free lecture-workshop entitled “Understanding the Nature of Creativity and the Structure of Thinking” or ‘Creativity and Thinking’ for short.

The lecture is given free, on a first come first served arrangement, to any school, college or university, business companies, civic/social clubs, religious organizations, professional associations, non-government organizations, and similar groups in Metro Manila and nearby cities and towns.

All requests for free lectures must be submitted by email to: likhaangroup@likhaan.com, likhaangroup@yahoo.com or likhaangroup@gmail.com or call/text Mobile: +0639272957076 or Mobile +0639184956535.

The Likhaan Group needs you!

Join our team; help us set-up Likhaan organizational units such as The InventSchool, Likhaan Institute, and Social Inventions & Community Innovations, among others, in your country/locality or in your respective schools, colleges and universities, organizations or communities.

Join one of the most exciting events in the field of technological innovations and social inventions since the first school was invented in Sumer (an ancient country in western Asia in southern Mesopotamia in the present day Iraq) in 2500 B.C.

Are you interested in joining our team as volunteers? Contact us now!

Contact us via email: likhaangroup@likhaan.com, likhaangroup@yahoo.com, likhaangroup@gmail.com or call/text Mobile: +0639272957076 or Mobile +0639184956535.

Likhaan Newsletter No. 54 March 2009

Year 24 ▪ Number 54 eMail Edition

QUEZON CITY, METRO-MANILA, PHILIPPINES March 2009

The InventSchool™@ KorPhil offers free lecture on creativity and inventiveness for educators, teachers and students

The InventSchool™@ KorPhil is offering “free lecture-workshop” on creativity and inventiveness on Monday, May 11, 2009 at the Korea-Philippines Information Technology Training Center (KorPhil) located at 673 Quirino Hi-Way, Quezon City Polytechnic University (QCPU) Compound, Barangay San Bartolome, Novaliches, Quezon City.

The half-day lecture-workshop (1:00-5:00 p.m.) is open to educators and school administrators, college and high school teachers, and selected college and senior high school students. The lecture is divided into two major topics: 1) understanding the nature of creativity and the structure of thinking, and 2) improving thinking abilities and developing creative thinking skills. The lecture will also feature a short discussion on promoting creativity and inventive activities in schools, colleges and universities.

The KorPhil IT Center is a premier ICT training center in the Asia-Pacific region, powered by state-of-the-art Korean technology, complemented by Filipino ingenuity. It was facilitated by a $4.3 million grant to the Republic of the Philippines from the Korean Government thru the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), respectively.

KorPhil is operated and managed by the Quezon City Government; it is the only local government facility for advanced ICT training that offers distance-training modules for other local governments and organizations in other parts of the country.

The InventSchool™, on the other hand, is an education and training center for creativity and inventiveness, and invention research & development hub of The Likhaan Group, Inc. Likhaan is an alliance of non-profit, development-oriented non-government organizations (NGO) and sectoral associations in the Philippines. It is dedicated to the promotion of activities that cultivate human creativity and improve social productivity for sustainable-equitable development and community transformation.

Registration is free but limited to 30 participants only on a first come, first serve basis. Participants may register through email at likhaangroup@yahoo.com, likhaangroup@gmail.com, likhaangroup@ likhaan.com, or via “snail” mail to KorPhil at the address cited above. Deadline for registration is on April 30, 2009.

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 International, Inc.

Quezon City Academy Campus, 144 EDSA, QC

Telephone No. 437-2045

Call/Text Mobile phones: +0639272957076 or +0639184956535

The Likhaan Group, Inc., through The InventSchool™, invites educators, college & high school teachers, and selected college students to the Third Summer Institute on Education for Scientific-Technological Creativity and Social Invention (SumIns) on May 23-24, 2009 in Baguio City.

The Summer Institute (SumIns) 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 SumIns 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 major topics of the 3rd SumIns are as follows:

Opening Session: Promoting Inventiveness and Creative Learning through The InventSchool™

Topic 1: The Need for Creativity and Thinking Skills

Topic 2: The Nature of Thinking

Topic 3: Developing Perceptive Thinking Skills

Topic 4: The Nature of Human Creativity

Topic 5: Developing Creative Thinking Skills

Special Session: Definition of Technological or Technical Invention and Social Invention

Topic 6: Introduction to Creative Teaching [Learning] and Educational Innovations

Special Topic: The Teachers, Students and The Inventschoolä Program

Concluding Topic: Opening Doorways to Creative Teaching, Innovative Learning and Inventive Creativity

Closing Session: Summary & Feedback and Fellowship

[Please see Likhaan Newsletter No. 53, February 2009 for details of the course outline and sub-topics.]

WANTED VOLUNTEERS FOR …

The Creativity Network

and Likhaan Alliance Network

Individual membership to The Creativity Network (TCN), one of Likhaan’s organizing units, is now being accepted in Metro Manila, Metro Cebu and Metro Davao, as well as in Baguio City, Naga City, Legaspi City and other major cities in the Philippines. The Network consists of volunteer teachers, college students and young professionals interested in cultivating their creative abilities and thinking skills.

TLG provides creativity training to all members of The Creativity Network before they are assigned to their respective volunteer service of the Likhaan Volunteer Corps (LVC).

TCN members will get involve in The InventSchool program, the InventClubs, and inventive activities, social inventions and community innovations, geographic studies, information analysis, and creatological research. They will help organize, reactivate and strengthen the TLG working organizations such as:

1. InventClub™ Federation of the Philippines (ICF)

2. The InventSchool™ Faculty Organization (ISFO)

3. Informatics Federation of the Philippines (IFP)

4. GeographiClub Federation of the Philippines (GFP)

5. EkisticSociety of the Philippines (ESP)

Likhaan is also looking for volunteers for its branches and alliance network in five (5) regional clusters. These are the following:

1. Likhaan National Capital & Northern-Southern Tagalog Alliance (Metro-Manila, Northern-Southern Tagalog & nearby areas) – Quezon City

2. Likhaan North Luzon Alliance (Northern and Central Luzon) – Baguio City

3. Likhaan Bicol Alliance (Bicol Region) – Legazpi City

4. Likhaan Visayan Alliance (Visayan Region) – Cebu City

5. Likhaan Mindanao Alliance (Mindanao and Sulu Archipelago) – Davao City

Philippine Trade Fairs & Expositions

Philippine National Trade Fair

Local Flair, Global Appeal

A Tour of Filipino Creativity

12-15 March, SMX Convention Center

Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay City

Eco-Products International Fair 09

19-22 March, SMX Convention Center

Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay City

DTI Exporters’ Expo

The Grandest Sale of top export products from the country’s top exporters

(Featuring popularly-priced quality items not available locally)

25-29 March, Philippine Trade & Training Center (PTTC)

Pasay City

Manila F.A.M.E. 2009

Asia’s Best Design Destination

15-18 April, SMX Convention Center

Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay City

International Food Exhibition (IFEX) 2009

Celebrate the Flavors

15-17 May, SMX Convention Center

Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay City