Curiosity | Cat Killer or Mother of Invention?
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Brian Housand, Ph.D. brianhousand.com @brianhousand Curiosity is an essential skill for creative success and a trait that gifted students possess in abundance, but a typical classroom often leaves little space for students' questions. While inquisitive children have long been warned that “curiosity killed the cat”, it is precisely that level of incessant wonderment and investigation that fuels creativity and innovation. Together we will explore practical ways for easily integrating student curiosity into daily lessons. You will be provided with a Pandora’s box of intriguing puzzlements to ignite students’ interests and strategies to help propel them towards creative productivity.
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- 1. CURIOSITY: CAT KILLER OR MOTHER OF INVENTION? Brian Housand, Ph.D.
- 3. SLIDES AVAILABLE AFTER THE PRESENTATION
- 4. 36O ifted
- 5. Brian H E L L O My name is
- 8. Around here we don’t look backwards for very long… We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things because we’re curious, and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. !
- 9. Curiosity is the root of creativity. Alex Wright Imagineer
- 10. 2005
- 19. IQ = Curiosity + Effort (von Stumm, Hell, and Camorro-Premuzic, 2011)
- 20. “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
- 26. List as many different things that the Droodle could represent in 60 seconds.
- 28. Why are kids so much better at this than adults?
- 30. A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn’t play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly. Pablo Neruda
- 31. REMEMBER When did it become unacceptable to play?
- 32. REMEMBER A time when you played so hard that you lost track of time.
- 35. Fluency Originality Elaboration Abstractness of Titles Resistance to Premature Closure TTCTTORRANCE TEST OF CREATIVE THINKING
- 38. WHAT DO YOU NOTICE? WHAT DO YOU WONDER?
- 39. WHAT DO YOU NOTICE? WHAT DO YOU WONDER?
- 40. WHAT DO YOU NOTICE? WHAT DO YOU WONDER?
- 43. Know it All
- 44. Know it AllLEARN
- 45. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Henry Ford
- 46. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. Henry Ford
- 49. It’s not just for kids, It’s for ADULTS too!
- 50. curiosity.com
- 51. curious.com
- 52. The real voyage of consists not in seeking new landscapes,but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust consists not in seeking new landscapes,but in having new eyes.
- 53. #carpetdiem
- 54. atlasobscura.com
- 55. puzzlements.co
- 56. I didn’t know I was interested in that.
- 57. Yes, AND…
- 58. BE LESS HELPFUL
- 61. Cheese Mountain
- 63. SLOW DOWN & SAVOR THE CHEESE
- 64. People who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
- 65. WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?
- 66. WHAT DO YOU WONDER?
- 68. Disney Wienies
- 70. Yes, AND…
- 71. 1.39 Billion Pounds 325.7 Million People =4.27pounds per person
- 73. mirror.co.uk CONSUMPTION OF CHEESE CORRELATES WITH TOTAL REVENUE GENERATED BY GOLF COURSES
- 75. WHAT IS THE REAL PROBLEM? WHAT ARE MY CONCERNS? IN WHAT WAYS MIGHT I… HOW MIGHT I…
- 76. What if…
- 77. Keep asking “WHY?” even after it gets annoying!
- 80. #GIFtedGIF