Unleashing Creativity
with iOS
Nicholas Yates
Instructional Designer
Apple Distinguished Educator
@digitalemerge
How creative are
you?
“Creative skills aren’t just
about good ideas, they are
about having the skills to
make good things happen.”
Paul Collard
http://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/30-things-you-can-do-to-promote-creativity-in-your-
classroom/
The Challenge
How can students
creatively demonstrate
their knowledge and
skills?
Outline
My Challenge
(but only with your
help)
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Why take the time to
be creative?
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The Creative Process
The Challenge
How can students
creatively demonstrate
their knowledge and
skills?
The Creative Process
• Teaching and Learning
• Inquiry
• Process and Product
• Other…
http://www.organizingcreativity.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/OC-Poster-English-
reduced.pdf
Generating
• Setting time for ideas
• Knowledge to create
• Divergent thinking
• Critical thinking
Generating
Capturing
• Documenting the idea
• Divergent thinking
Capturing
Collecting
• Deeper inquiry into select ideas
• Critical thinking
• Diverge then converge
Collecting
Realisation
• Convergent thinking
• Pursue one idea
• Make it real
Realisation
Discussions +
Forums
Process vs. Product
Process + Product
WorkflowInquir
y
Process + Product
WorkflowInquir
y
Inquiry Process:
Working out a problem
Experimenting
Process + Product
WorkflowInquir
y
Inquiry Process:
Working out a problem
Experimenting
Inquiry Product:
Solution
Answer
Results
Process + Product
WorkflowInquir
y
Inquiry Process:
Working out a problem
Experimenting
Inquiry Product:
Solution
Answer
Results
Creativit
y
Process:
How are students working out a
problem?
• iPad
• Paper
• Head
• Laptop
• Comics
• Videos
• Music - raps
• Podcasts
• 3D modelling
• Teach others
• e-Books
Product:
How are students demonstrating
an answer to a problem?
Multiple Intelligences
http://www.connectionsacademy.com/Libraries/blog/multiple-intelligences-learning-
styles.jpg
• Peer teaching
• Collaboration
• Discussions
Interpersonal
• Read / tell
stories
• Reading aloud
• Creative writing
Verbal-Linguistic
• Problem solving
• Experiments
• Critical thinking
Logical-Mathematical
• Working outside
• Identifying and
classifying
• Researching
Naturalistic
• Reflective
• Keep journals
• Scrapbooks
Intrapersonal
• Drawing
• Visual mapping
• Photos and 3D
modelling
Visual-Spatial
• Writing songs
• Singing songs
• Concepts in
songs
Musical
• Performing
• Scavenger
hunts
• Building
Bodily-Kinesthetic
http://www.connectionsacademy.com/Libraries/blog/multiple-intelligences-learning-
styles.jpg
Process + Product
WorkflowInquir
y
Inquiry Process:
Working out a problem
Experimenting
Inquiry Product:
Solution
Answer
Results
Creativit
y
Inquir
y
Inquiry Process:
Working out a problem
Experimenting
Inquiry Product:
Solution
Answer
Results
Creativit
yMultiple
Intelligenc
Your Turn!
How creative are
you?
How creative are
you?
How creative you are.
The Challenge
How can students
creatively demonstrate
their knowledge and
skills?
The Creative
Process
How can the creative process
support student creativity in
your classroom?
How would you implement it?
Multiple
Intelligences
How can multiple intelligences
support student creativity in
your classroom?
How would you implement it?
Multiple
Intelligences
How can multiple intelligences
support student creativity in
your classroom?
How would you implement
them?
The Creative
Process
How can the creative process
support student creativity in
your classroom?
How would you implement it?
Nicholas Yates
Apple Distinguished Educator
Apple Professional Developer
nicholas.yates@zu.ac.ae
@digitalemerge

Creativity on i os