Here are some quotes and a bibliography of sources that Leeann Hunter and I came up with for our Computers and Writing 2012 presentation on “Invention Mobs: Recreating Creativity and Collaboration in the Writing Classroom.”
The most creative among us see relationships the rest of us never notice. Such ability is at a premium in a world where specialized knowledge work can quickly become routinized work-and therefore be automated or outsourced away.
-Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind (2005)
Smart mobs consist of people who are able to act in concert even if they don’t know each other. The people who make up smart mobs cooperate in ways never before possible because they carry devices that possess both communication and computing capabilities.
-Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (2002)
[I]nnovative extensions often emerge when artists are exposed to other conventions besides the ones that they have been gifted in applying, inspiring or forcing creativity.
-Brian Uzzi and Jarrett Spiro, “Collaboration and Creativity: The Small World Problem” (2005)
The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as a thing but as a process, not as a noun but as a verb, not as a grade-point average or a test score but as a continuum. It requires refreshing your mental browser. And it means, always, relying on others to help in a process that is impossible to accomplish on your own.
-Cathy Davidson, Now You See It (2011)
[C]reativity generally involves crossing the boundaries of domains, so that, for instance, a chemist who adopts quantum mechanics from physics and applies it to molecular bonds can make a more substantive contribution to chemistry than one who stays exclusively within the bounds of chemistry.
-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (1996)
Bonawitz, Elizabeth, and Patrick Shafto, et. al. “The Double-Edged Sword of Pedagogy: Instruction Limits Spontaneous Exploration and Discovery.” Cognition. 120 (2011) 322–330. Print.
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. New York: Harper Collins, 1996. Kindle Edition.
Davidson, Cathy N. Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn. New York: Viking, 2011. Kindle Edition.
Fitzpatrick, Katherine. Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Teaching, and the Future of the Academy. New York: New York University Press, 2011. Print.
Klein, J.T. Creating Interdisciplinary Campus Cultures: A Model for Strength and Sustainability. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010. Print.
Liu, Alan. “The State of the Digital Humanities: A Report and a Critique.” Video blog post. Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. Center of the University of the Idea. 16 May 2012. Web.
McAndrew, P., Scanlon, E. and Clow, D. “An Open Future for Higher Education.” Educause Quarterly 33.1.18 Nov. 2011. Web.
McWilliam, E, and Shane Dawson. “Teaching for Creativity: Towards Sustainable and Replicable Pedagogical Practice.” Higher Education. 56.6 (2008): 633-643. Print.
Pearce, N., Weller, M., Scanlon, E. and Kinsey, S. “Digital Scholarship Considered: How New Technologies Could Transform Academic Work.” Education. 16.1. 16 May 2012. Web.
Pink, Daniel. A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. New York: Riverhead Press, 2005. Print.
Rheingold, Howard. Net Smart: How to Thrive Online. Boston: MIT Press, 2012. Print.
—. Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books, 2002.
Uzzi, Brian, and Jarrett Spiro. “Collaboration and Creativity: The Small World Problem.” American Journal of Sociology. (2005): 447-504.
Weinberger, David. Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room. New York: Basic Books, 2012.
