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The Marshmallow Challenge, Connie I. Reimers-Hild
The Marshmallow Challenge, Connie I. Reimers-Hild
Kimmel Education and Research Center: Faculty and Staff Publications
I discovered the Marshmallow Challenge when taking an online course through Stanford called, “A Crash Course in Creativity” with Dr. Tina Seelig (http://venture-lab.org/creativity).
The exercise has been used with groups of all ages from around the world by Tom Wujec, who Seelig calls an, “award-winning designer and innovator” (p. 144).
How do you use the Marshmallow Challenge? I use it in a number of different ways:
- As an icebreaker
- As a teambuilding exercise
- To stimulate creativity and innovation
- As an experiential exercise that adds FUN to learning!
Seelig and I have the same thoughts on the importance of …