Defined by Ken Robinson as the process of generating ideas that have value, creativity still remains a mystery to many educators. Whether it can be taught or not, how it can be fostered in the 21st century, or why it is relevant to teachers are all aspects of the same issue that should be addressed from an in-depth perspective. Is there anything 100% new? Where does ‘newness’ come from? Do digital technologies promote or stifle creativity? The presenter will deal with all these challenging questions focusing the analysis on what happens with creativity in the language classroom. Is there only one way to be creative? Can creativity become a habit? Teachers and educators in general are all invited to debate and share experiences.

1. Creativity Revisited:
Hacker Ethic & Remix Practices in the
21st Century Classroom
Prof. Lic. Mariana Ferrarelli
April – 2015 - #CreativityPPD
mariana.ferrarelli@gmail.com
slideshare.net/marianaferrarelli
@FerrarelliM

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4. • Developed
• Trained
• Honed

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6. • David Ogilvy
• The father of advertising
• 8 habits

7. Courage
• The ability to do something that you know
is difficult or dangerous; mental or moral
strength to venture, persevere, and
withstand danger, fear, or difficulty
• "Fear leads to self-doubt, which is the
worst enemy of creativity"

8. Intuition
• Natural ability or power that makes it
possible to know something without any
proof or evidence; a feeling that guides a
person to act a certain way without fully
understanding why
• "We are wiser than we think and intuition
is the art of listening to the guru within us"

9. Curiosity
• The desire to learn or know more about
something or someone; desire to know;
interest leading to inquiry
• "When we've lost our capacity to see the
world and everything in it as new:
unreasonable, bewildering and something
that gives rise to astonishment, we have
become dim-sighted and stooped with age"

10. Playfulness
• Happy and full of energy; eager to play;
showing that you are having fun and not
being serious
• "We are all born children. The trick is to
remain one" Pablo Picasso
If we are here…. today…

12. Participatory Culture
“Participatory culture is emerging as the
culture absorbs and responds to the
explosion of new media technologies that
make it possible for average consumers to
archive, annotate, appropriate, and
recirculate media content in powerful new
ways”
(Jenkins, 2006:8)

13. Participatory Culture
“Participatory culture is emerging as the
culture absorbs and responds to the
explosion of new media technologies that
make it possible for average consumers
to archive, annotate, appropriate, and
recirculate media content in powerful new
ways”
(Jenkins, 2006:8)

14. Participatory Culture
Users producing content
Students producing knowledge

16. • The Creative Mindset
• “An attitude to the world characterised by
curiosity, questions and a desire to play,
make and share which children possess in
their early years but which is tragically lost
in the cultures of schools and workplaces”.

18. • Change the order of activities
• Play with TIME

20. • Change our view on learning
• Let stds CHOOSE
• Learning Styles = One-size-fits-all

24. • Adapt a story
• http://writecomics.com/
• http://piktochart.com/

26. • Book Screen
• Screen Book
• Paper-based journal project
• Written language fluency

27. • Privacy Agreement
• Welcome questionnaire
• ‘Grammarless’ Oath

30. • Visible Thinking: Project Zero – Harvard
When thinking becomes visible in the
classroom students develop thinking
dispositions which in turn allow for
thoughtful and deep learning.
http://pzweb.harvard.edu/vt/VisibleThinking

31. When thinking is visible it can be recorded in
different ways:
- Mind maps
- Charts
- Lists
- Videos of classroom work
- Diagrams
- Students’ reflections in a journal or logbook

32. Routines: Cognitive Behaviours
∞ Think critically
∞ Provide evidence
∞ Justify with explanations
∞ Compare & connect
∞ Summarise
∞ Explore multiple perspectives
∞ Identify parts in a whole
∞ Draw conclusions
∞ Hypothesize
∞ Reflect on their own learning process

33. “If you were to write a headline for this
topic or issue right now that captured the
most important aspect that should be
remembered, what would that headline
be?”
Headlines

34. Mark Church introducing the HEADLINES routine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMginVgsYPs
This routine helps students think of a
summary or synopsis of the topic
discussed. It works especially well at the
end of a class discussion or session in
which students have explored a topic and
gathered a fair amount of new information
or opinions about it.

36. • Choose a classic tale:
• Introduce 3 extra objects:

38. • How would Lizzie Bennet react if she were
the female character in “A Streetcar
Named Desire”?
• Imagine Wilfried Owen’s Facebook profile.
• Victoria Volonté - Literature

42. • Talk to stds.
• ProduSers: Don’t ask them to answer the
Qs. Ask them to produce the Qs
themselves
• Flipped Classroom: Don’t research a topic
and deliver a presentation. Ask them to do
the research to deliver the class
themselves

43. • Share the Assessment Criteria
• Invite stds to agree on the assessment
objectives with you.
• Democratic Pedagogy
• Critical Literacy

44. Rubric for Visual Presentations

48. • Recycle
• Reuse
• Rewrite
• Reread
• Reappropriate
• Transform

49. Hamlet
• “Amleth”
• “The Spanish Tragedy”
• Ur-Hamlet
• Senecan drama

50. Remix & Mashup Practices
• Remix: “the reworking or adaptation of an
existing work (…) alternate version of the
original”. (Lamb, 2007:14)
• Mashup: “Involves the combination of two
or more works that may be different from
one another” (Lamb, 2007:14)

51. Both practices involve:
the mixing of any number of digital
media sources
Remix & Mashup Practices

54. Hacker: sb who has fun thinking or
reasoning in clever or unusual ways; sb
who loves what he/she does and uses
his/her wit to improve it.
• Pushes boundaries and moves off limits
• Feels uncomfortable with the status quo
• Believes in change through improvement
HACKER MINDSET

55. • Hacking is NOT about devices &
technology; it’s NOT about WHAT but
HOW we approach problems.
• It’s about understanding how a system
works to change the process so that it
suits our needs.
• Creativity + Passion + Freedom

56. • Hacking is about CREATING better ways
to do the things we love.
• We can hack anything
#Hackschooling
#Hackeducation

57. Let’s become hackers ourselves.
Let’s become subversive protagonist of
disruptive initiatives
Let’s hack our everyday classroom
practices.

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