This presentation discusses creative thinking and ways to nurture creativity. It introduces various creative frameworks and techniques including those developed by Torrance, deBono, and SCAMPER. Barriers to creativity are addressed as well as strategies to overcome them such as lateral thinking, challenging processes, and using provocative statements and random words. The importance of imagination, curiosity, and risk-taking to creativity is emphasized.

1. Creative Thinking: Inventing the Possible presented by Linda Nitsche session website: http://inventingthepossible.wikispaces.com

2. what is creativity?

3. Who is creative?Raise your hand.

4. nurture creativity

5. fear

6. barriers

7. barrier bridge

8. creative frameworks Torrance deBono SCAMPER

9. paultorrance

10. incubation

11. 11

12. Innovative (Divergent Thinking) Fluency Originality Resistance to Premature Closure Adaptive Elaboration Abstractnes of Titles Emotional Expressiveness, Storytelling Articulateness, Movement or Action, Expressiveness of Titles, Synthesis of Incomplete Figures, Synthesis of Lines or Circles, Unusual Visualization, Internal Visualization, Extending or Breaking Boundaries, Humor, Richness of Imagery, Colorfulness of Imagery, & Fantasy. Creative Strengths 12

13. FLUENCY scads Quantity HOW MANY? A BUNCH OODLES LOTS a few

14. FLEXIBILITY variety DIFFERENT detour ADAPT Re-direct ALTERNATIVES

15. ORIGINALITY UNIQUE unusual clever unobvious novel NEW

16. ELABORATION add on embellish stretch Expand upon ENLARGE enrich enrich

17. Draw 4 straight lines Without lifting your pencil from the paper Cross through every dot once •• • • • • • • •

18. Alternative Responses Cut the dots out, line them up and use 1 straight line. • • • • • • • • • Curve the paper around and use 1 winding line.

19. Alternative Responses One very fat line: • • • • • • • • •

20. scamper

21. What does SCAMPER stand for? S = Substitute? (other ingredients, materials, etc.) C = Combine? (blend etc.) A = Adapt? M = Modify, magnify, minify? P = Put to other uses? E= Eliminate? R = Reverse (roles, etc.) or rearrange (patterns, pace)?

22. lateral thinking

23. outside the box

24. challenge the process

25. provocativestatement

26. random words

27. parallel thinking

28. so what…

29. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein

30. imagine it project creativity imagination innovation curiosity

31. imagination

32. awareness

33. curiosity

34. risk taking

35. complexity

36. playfulness

37. now what…

38. bridges

39. Image Sources (Creative Commons License) in slide order: 1. brainquirks http-//www.flickr.com/photos/kire/790809806/sizes/o/2. puzzle brain http-//www.flickr.com/photos/seseskiz/2282360004/sizes/o/3. raisedhHand http-//www.flickr.com/photos/korephotos/2944049443/sizes/l/4. painting http-//www.flickr.com/photos/ecstaticist/2998111097/sizes/l/6. barriers and bridges http-//www.flickr.com/photos/79286287@N00/215951891/sizes/l/p7. paper bag 2 http-//www.flickr.com/photos/visualarts/423183625/sizes/l/in/photostream/7. paper bag http-//www.flickr.com/photos/visualarts/423187383/sizes/l/in/photostream/8 & 9 framework2 http-//www.flickr.com/photos/glamhag/2062968045/sizes/l/8 & 20 framework1 http-//www.flickr.com/photos/livenow/185186715/sizes/l/8 & 23 framework 4 http-//www.flickr.com/photos/diegocupolo/3099917256/sizes/l/10. eggs http-//www.flickr.com/photos/italintheheart/3679974298/sizes/l/13. candy http-//www.flickr.com/photos/2870271049_385496a712_b14. gymnastics http-//www.flickr.com/photos/cpeterson79/3262492534/sizes/l/15. paper sculputre http-//www.flickr.com/photos/polyscene/2762734797/sizes/o/16. digital web http-//www.flickr.com/photos/oceanflynn/315385916/sizes/o/23. outside the box http-//www.flickr.com/photos/huffstutterrobertl/3937749595/sizes/l/24. wave http-//www.flickr.com/photos/ 2894260594_2861f151ee_b25. hammer http-//www.flickr.com/photos/183123841_3dc74c6b0a_b26. puzzlepiecehttp-//www.flickr.com/photos/3082335820_cf324bc596_b27. network trains http-//www.flickr.com/photos/95579828@N00/770949634/sizes/o/30. imagine the possible http-//www.flickr.com/photos/kretyen/2628104710/sizes/l/31. imagine http-//www.flickr.com/photos/normalityrelief/3235152269/sizes/l/32. child eye http-//www.flickr.com/photos/ 14954425_82322d95e1_b33. open source design http-//www.flickr.com/photos/pmtorrone/3066402360/sizes/o/34. rock climbing http-//www.flickr.com/photos/koalie/1699195578/sizes/l/35. globe sphere http-//www.flickr.com/photos/ecstaticist/2044116190/sizes/o/36. sandcastle http-//www.flickr.com/photos/the_amanda/2716785994/sizes/l/38. bridge http-//www.flickr.com/photos/scotthudson/3019644249/sizes/l/