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Creativity and innovation in the Classroom
The document discusses how schools may discourage creativity in students. It notes that first graders will say they are creative but tenth graders may not. Various ideas are presented on fostering creativity through play, curiosity, offering choices, and combining ideas. Restrictions tend to limit creativity while challenging tasks and giving students time and tools can encourage more creative responses.
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- 3. Ask a classof first graders “Are you creative?” Ask a class of tenth graders “Are you creative?” What have we done to these children? Image: 'ijc' http://www.flickr.com/photos/23474554@N00/3561179958
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- 6. http://www.flickr.com/photos/fwp/148695815/ Quantity? Quality?
- 8. Creativity is... In small groups, finish this sentence. Write down as many variations as you wish. We will share them with the group later.
- 10. We have neverneeded creativity as much as we do right now Image: 'My Brain on MRI' http://www.flickr.com/photos/48600090482@N01/22584430
- 11. We need toproduce people who know how to act when they’re faced with situations for which they were not specifically prepared. Seymour Papert
- 12. The Value ofPlay Curiosity Idea Starters Offering Choice Combining Ideas
- 13. The Value ofPlay Curiosity Idea Starters Offering Choice Combining Ideas http://www.flickr.com/photos/92981392@N00/12944421/
- 14. Evan Kidd -Psychologist Recorded at TEDx Sydney 2012 Watch the whole talk at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzCfUvWD0Q4
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- 16. 50% 20% Time inschool - Kevin Brookhouser http://www.iteachithink.com/2012/07/give-your-students-20-time-to-do.html http://www.iteachithink.com/2012/08/a-letter-to-my-students-and-parents.html http://www.iteachithink.com/2012/08/20-project-bad-idea-factory.html
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- 19. http://www.flickr.com/photos/theredproject/2830516037/ Createa fashionable outfit using only newspaper. Do a fashion photo shoot Document it with photos and video Produce a “Creativity is...” slide
- 20. “It’s not an‘either/or,’ it’s an ‘and.’ You can be serious and play.” Tim Brown, founder of IDEO http://www.flickr.com/photos/lst1984/2283409535/
- 21. The Value ofPlay Curiosity Idea Starters Offering Choice Combining Ideas http://www.flickr.com/photos/80901381@N04/7530054972
- 24. Based on anidea from Mike Anderson, NZ.
- 25. No piece ofpaper can be folded in half more than 7 times. How could you find out?
- 26. The average person’sleft hand does 93% of the typing. How could you find out?
- 27. The short termmemory capacity for most people is between 5 and 9 digits. How could you find out?
- 29. The Value ofPlay Curiosity Idea Starters Offering Choice Combining Ideas http://www.flickr.com/photos/12836528@N00/2394279602/
- 36. A tap dripsat a rate of 10 drops per minute into a large cylindrical container. Each drop contains 5 ml of water. The cylindrical container is 1.5m tall and 1.1m in diameter, with a wall thickness of 50mm. 1.1m How long would it take for the water to fill the container? 1.5m Problem idea by Dan Meyer, Image by Chris Betcher
- 37. Find an interestingphoto (try Flickr’s Last 7 Days Interestingness) Come up with a question, task or problem that uses this image as a prompt for an activity Combine the image and the prompt on a Keynote or PowerPoint slide Send your single slide to xxxxxx (Keynote or PowerPoint) • Writing prompts for creative writing - http://writingprompts.tumblr.com/ • More writing prompts - http://photoprompts.tumblr.com/ • And even more - http://visualwritingprompts.wordpress.com/
- 38. The Value ofPlay Curiosity Idea Starters Offering Choice Combining Ideas http://www.flickr.com/photos/14838182@N00/6518707833/
- 39. How Schools seethings How Life sees things
- 43. Verbs Nouns Write Blogs Communicate Wikis Persuade Keynote Calculate Voicethread ...using... Present iMovie Design Comic Life Inform Photoshop Create Sketchup etc... Teacher’s job Student’s job
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- 45. The Value ofPlay Curiosity Idea Starters Offering Choices Combining Ideas http://www.flickr.com/photos/detune/215354076/
- 49. “Creativity is justconnecting things. When you ask a creative person how they did something, they may 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
- 50. http://www.flickr.com/photos/heartlover1717/7239093684/ Substitute - components,materials, people Combine - mix, combine with other assemblies or services, integrate Adapt - alter, change function, use part of another element Modify - increase or reduce in scale, change shape, modify attributes (e.g. colour) Put to another use Eliminate - remove elements, simplify, reduce to core functionality Reverse - turn inside out or upside down http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newCT_02.htm
- 51. borrowing is notstealing
- 52. Everything is aRemix http://www.everythingisaremix.info/
- 53. “Overprotecting intellectual propertyis as as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it is supposed to nurture... ... Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new: Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion, each new creator building on the works of those who came before” Judge Alex Kozinski US Court of Appeals
- 54. all rights some rights public reserved reserved domain
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- 56. Images •Flickr (CC Search) •FlickrCC •TheCommons •The Open Photo Project •Wikimedia Commons •Google (CC Search) •OpenClipArt •PhotoEverywhere •CompFight •PhotoPin
- 57. Audio •CC Mixter •Jamendo •SpinXpress •Wikimedia Commons •MusOpen •OpSound •OLPCSound Archive •SoundClick •The FreeSound Project
- 58. Text Information •Wikipedia •Wikipedia forSchools •Project Gutenburg •Wikibooks •Wikijunior •Free-Reading •OER Commons •Curriki •Freebase
- 59. The Value ofPlay Curiosity Idea Starters Offering Choice Combining Ideas
- 60. How do weget creativity from our students? Give then something interesting to work on Give them the time, tools and skills they need Get out of their way! Image: 'newt' http://www.flickr.com/photos/24471966@N04/3102653703
- 61. The less restrictionsyou place on a task, the more creative the response The more restrictions you place on a task, the less creative the response Image: 'Vintage block print illustration' http://www.flickr.com/photos/10278395@N08/2310455009
- 62. Make it “hardfun” Be ambitious for them Image: 'Bravo' http://www.flickr.com/photos/92953327@N00/234931709