by Joanne Jacobs | Apr 27, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence
We live in an era of information abundance, but this does not mean people are thinking more critically. Indeed AI-generated content has arguably flattened originality and made mediocrity easier to produce. Critical thinking is often described as an essential skill,...
by Joanne Jacobs | Mar 3, 2025 | 21st Century Skills, Facilitation
Facilitation is generally misunderstood. Too many people approach it as a performance, imagining the facilitator as the focal point of a workshop, commanding the room with energy and expertise. In reality, effective facilitation is closer to coaching than performing....
by Joanne Jacobs | Feb 17, 2025 | Design Thinking, Innovation
So in January 2025, an article called What comes after Design Thinking? piqued my interest. As a long-term practitioner of (and educator about) Design Thinking, I was initially concerned the piece would be full of some kind of pseudo-fashionable tedium with...
by Joanne Jacobs | Feb 15, 2025 | 21st Century Skills, Best Practices, Collaborative Learning
For decades, businesses have relied on the VUCA model (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) to describe our fast-changing world. Today, all that uncertainty has only deepened. Futurist Jamais Cascio argues that a different framework, known as BANI (Brittle,...
by Joanne Jacobs | Feb 13, 2025 | Creativity, Innovation, Strategy
AI is getting really good at creative problem-solving – so good, in fact, that it’s starting to take over many jobs. Need a new product idea? AI can generate thousands of concepts in seconds. Struggling with a design? AI will draft ten options before you’ve...
