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Creative Outlets Tennessee 2016
This document discusses creativity and how it can be fostered in education. It provides various definitions of creativity which emphasize making new combinations of old elements and seeing relationships between disparate ideas. The document advocates teaching students to think creatively rather than just memorizing facts. Various techniques are presented for stimulating creativity, such as differentiated curriculum, brainstorming words and questions, and constructing metaphors. The importance of incubation periods for ideas to develop is also highlighted.
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- 6. Rather than runningthe risk of having our students become W A L K I N G ENCYCLOPEDIAS we need to TEACH them how to THINK CREATIVELY. (Sternberg, 2006)
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- 11. ?Differentiated Curriculum. Adaptationof content, process, and concepts to meet a higher level of expectation appropriate for advanced learners. Curriculum can be differentiated through acceleration, complexity, depth, challenge, and CREATIVITY (VanTassel-Baska & Wood, 2008).
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- 16. Creativity is just connectingthings. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and SYNTHESIZE new things. - Steve Jobs, 1995
- 17. An idea isnothing more or less than a new combination of old elements. new combination old elements James Webb Young, 1940 A Technique for Producing Ideas
- 18. The capacity tobring old elements into new combinations depends largely on the ability to see relationships. new combination old elements James Webb Young, 1940 A Technique for Producing Ideas
- 19. They must knowhow to link apparently unconnected elements to create something new. People who hope to thrive in the Conceptual Age must understand the connection between diverse, and seemingly separate disciplines. -- Daniel Pink in AWhole New Mind
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- 23. TYPE III INDEPENDENT ORSMALL GROUP INVESTIGATIONS PRODUCTS AND/OR PERFORMANCES TYPE I GENERAL EXPLORATORY ACTIVITIES TYPE II METHODOLOGICAL TRAINING / HOW-TO ACTIVITIES (Renzulli, 1977)
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- 30. “Combinatory play seems tobe the essential feature in productive thought.”
- 31. Games are themost elevated form of investigation.
- 33. Jackson, L. A.,Witt, E. A., Games, A. I., Fitzgerald, H. E., von Eye, A., & Zhao, Y. (2012). Information technology use and creativity: Findings from the Children and technology Project. Computers in Human Behavior, 28(2), 370-376. CREATIVITY COMPUTER USE INTERNET USE CELL PHONE USE VIDEO GAME PLAY
- 34. Jackson, L. A.,Witt, E. A., Games, A. I., Fitzgerald, H. E., von Eye, A., & Zhao, Y. (2012). Information technology use and creativity: Findings from the Children and technology Project. Computers in Human Behavior, 28(2), 370-376. CREATIVITY VIDEO GAME PLAY
- 37. Video games teach childrenwhat computers are beginning to teach adults--that some forms of learning are fast-paced, immensely compelling, and rewarding. - Seymour Papert
- 38. The fact thatthey are enormously demanding of one's time and require new ways of thinking remains a small price to pay (and is perhaps even an advantage) to be vaulted into the future. - Seymour Papert
- 39. Not surprisingly, by comparisonschool strikes many young people as slow, boring, and frankly out of touch. - Seymour Papert
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- 42. “There is nothing that isNOT possible.”
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- 44. UNLIMITED You can makeit into whatever you want it to be.
- 45. FOR aLL INTENTSaND PURPOSES, IT IS A SPACE WHERE YOU ARE GOD
- 46. If you are impatient thenthis may not be the gAme for you
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- 68. flickr five frames 1.Establish characters and location 2. Create a situation with possibilities 3. Involve the characters in the situation 4. Build to probable outcomes 5. Have a logical BUT surprising end
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- 78. THE FUTUREIS NOTA DESTINATION IT IS A DIRECTION.
- 79. “We may notbe able to prepare the future for our children, but at least we can prepare our children for the future.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 80. Krissy Venosdale How aboutinstead of of just preparing kids for the future we EMPOWER them to CREATE it?
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