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Major Tom is the cue to transition back

“ ART is risk made visible “
“ CREATIVITY is risk made visible “
“ TEACHING is risk made visible “
“ LEARNING is risk made visible “

Creativity Continuum
Think/ Pair/ Share

How might we…foster an
artist mindset?
STEM + Creativity and
The Arts

hire an artist if you want to solve
a novel problem
invite an artist to be an integral part
of R&D…
to shake things up

I have the answers to the questions
they never ask
- Gwen Burvall

Steve Jobs’ last words
oh wow…
w
oh wow…
oh wow…

We all have a little of
the Force in us.
But we need
some training
to become Jedi.

…a world in which
everyone has access
to the means of
creative expression
and the networks
supporting
artistic distribution
Henry Jenkins, MIT & USC

Creativity
is as important as
literacy
Sir Ken Robinson

conﬁdence
problem-solving
focus
perseverance
collaboration
What we learn from the ARTS
(besides Creativity)

observe
connect
interpret
ﬁnd patterns
evaluate
question
explore perspectives

MERAKI : to do something with creativity and love;
to leave your soul in your work

Authentic learning (and
assessment) are related not only
to the knowledge students
RECEIVE,
but also to the knowledge
PRODUCTION
they can themselves
achieve.
- Steve Wheeler @timbuckteeth

sometimes you are the only one who gets it…

see relationships
to which others are blind
Mission for Juxtaposition

“CREATIVITY is relational.
…casting widely and disparate dots
of existing knowledge in new ways
…mine your knowledge;
know your dots”
-Bruce Nussbaum

don’t forget the
in “cognition”

CREATIVITY is…
…connecting dots

to dot connect
you must have the dots

Egon Schiele meets
Thom Yorke
of Radiohead

curate cleverly
(sense-making)

When people ask me
if I went to ﬁlm school
I tell them, ‘No, I went to ﬁlms’
Quentin Tarantino

need blend of direct instruction
and open inquiry

try THEMATIC, CONCEPT-based instruction
teach IDEAS not ITEMS

Combinatorial Play
Albert Einstein
“Blind Dates” - merge 2 ideas
or disciplines
Cold War + Pizza
Geography + PE

think outside
the lines
divergent thinking

beginner’s mind
(free from assumptions)
“insightful ignorance”
- Stuart Firestein, Columbia

visual metaphor
for
“eating disorder”

Kennings
hyphenated compound metaphor
Anglo-Saxon and Norse literature
“northern kiss”= cold wind
“whale-road” = the ocean
“sky-candle”= sun

analogies game
word bank of nouns
seek connections (use like and as)
visualize
horse wind

New Perspective
describe to an extraterrestrial
best or worst thing that could happen?
view from diff cultures or generations
what might happen next?

@austinkleon
In other words…

Perspectives
Describe to an extra-terrestrial
topic:
“SMARTPHONE”
OR best/ worst/ next thing that can happen
what might happen next? (what’s in store?)

David Ogilvy
big ideas usually come
as simple ideas
create a children’s book
explain in 3 image panel

minimalist posters
of a concept

3 dimensional visualization of:
vocab word
math problem
event in history
process in science
movement in political science
Make it Tangible

use real life items or people
length of hair= frequency of addiction

CREATIVITY is intelligence
having fun
Albert Einstein

Scamper Technique
Bob Eberle
Substitute
Combine
Adapt
Modify
Put to Another Use
Eliminate
Reverse

Make a Scene!
Each partner ﬁnds something in bag
Combine elements of each item to make a new thing

Japanese game for Ideation
Shiritori
https://shiritorigame.com/
think of a word that starts with the last letter
IDEAS

Shiritori Round
down the row
(idea: start with name of school mascot)

Edison’s word list
write 5 random words
write 1st word that comes
to mind after each word
use 2nd word as springboard
for next round (do 5 rounds)

Remote Association Test
http://www.remote-associates-test.com/
3 cue words linked to a 4th
opera / hand / dish

http://www.remote-associates-test.com/
shine / beam / struck

cross / rain/ tie
Challenge:
make one up & tweet

Perils of
Brainstorming
http://www.tricider.com/
best to think alone ﬁrst
try social voting:
(or “framestorming”
- all questions

CREATIVITY is not a talent…
it’s a WAY of operating…
and it’s CURIOSITY
for its own sake
- John Cleese

It’s easier to do
trivial things
that are urgent
that we know
we can do…
…than the BIG THINKING
- John Cleese

Play is distinct from the locality
and duration of everyday life
- John Cleese

We don’t stop PLAYING because we
grow OLD…we grow old because
we stop playing
- George Bernard Shaw

stuff your eyes with wonder
Ray Bradbury

Living with “presence”
to draw today is to reclaim
the dignity and private joy
of SEEING amid a culture
obsessed with
LOOKING in public
John Ruskin

@donalddrawbertson
Unexpected Mediums

#pinkladies series by @amyburvall
Repurpose

Serendipitous “doodle-ramblings”
@Hombre_McSteez

“The Deep”…example of Pareidolia

live in the “why” + the “why not?”

Answer: California
what is the question?

If you want to be more
creative, innovative…
look for value in
unexpected places.
Allow for serendipity,
surprise
to astonish you
- David Culberhouse

“If only we could pull out
our brain
and use only our eyes.”
― Pablo Picasso

“become a microscope”
Sister Corita Kent
slow journalism

Typography Hunt
great for poems!
try as collaborative
project

see the angel
in the marble…
(inspired by Michelangelo)

Multi-media
STUDIO
in the pocket
try a Wonder Walk

curriculum-themed
photo-a-day challenge

“art washes away from the soul
the dust of everyday life”
get in
a creative habit

from tweet
to blog
to book chapter

collaborative creativity: #ds106

DaVinci - fy
always have
a notebook

ideas are butterﬂies
- notebook is net

the great beneﬁt of
drawing
is that when you look
at something you see it
for the ﬁrst time
Lynda Barry

drawing is putting a line
around an idea
- Henri Matisse

you begin to see things
you never noticed
before.…
you get closer
to the artist’s secret
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

golf course
architect
I met on the plane
vision / prototype

mindfulness
being “present”

@michelrijk
Try a one-line
drawing

“sparks”
“irons in the ﬁre”
“backburner”
“campﬁre”
Creativity Journal
“ashes”

#sketchquote
#threethirtysketchquote #birthdaysketchquote
take a break…and make!

micro-narratives, Félix Fénéon, 1906
3 line novels

@austinkleon
Dichotomies
works great
with Twitter polls!

synopsize synthesize
ESSENTIALIZE

Picasso’s Exercise: used at Apple

“Cancer: you had me at hello”

6 word memoirs: shawn budlong, 13

condensed shakespeare, mya gosling

MINIMALIST MOVIE POSTERS
POEMS NOVELS HISTORICAL
EVENTS

synthesis: emoji story
“emojiliterate”?

unsplash.com
10 free hi-res photos
every 10 days

@thebriefbox
signage for art gallery
coffee cup design
carbon footprint infographic
e-commerce web page
redesign gmail UI layout
example briefs

artifact bag
bag of tools mashup
bio bag
“In the Bag”

analog + digital
(it’s a beautiful thing)

blackout poetry by @austinkleon

blackout poetry (magazine)
try a “found poem”
by layering 2 poems,
speeches, or literary texts
next to each other
extract from each
to create a new poem
IDEA!
- David Theriault

These “candles” are the light inspiring
your new poem or story
16 Candles
turn to page 16 in any book/magazine
copy every 16th word
until you get to 20

William Burroughs
“cut up method”
(also used by Bowie and Cobain for lyrics)

My “Makeout Poetry”
ipad Paper 53 +
magazine +
Instagram ﬁlter

cut-up poetry @ajaved22
“revolution is
to transform
understanding
with disruptive
learning”

feline devastation
starlight ﬁr
@serendipidoodle

“All ideas are
secondhand, consciously
and unconsciously drawn
from a million outside
sources
- Mark Twain

Innovation
comes from
looking
backwards…
…as much as
forwards

is like a Long Island Iced Tea
mix of existing ingredients,
deconstructed and re-contextualized

is like a White Russian
two or more opposing things
layered and blended

see things in new ways
appropriate to create -
re-contextualize

Remix: Magnetic Poetry
try this with PEOPLE as the pieces

re-contextualize found objects as art
Duchamp-It
(can use hashtags as well)

Remix: Infographic
from this ^ to this >

mix anything pop culture
with something academic
It!

HACK
a
CHILDREN’S BOOK
social commentary

excerpt from Ruben Bolling (Richard Scarry’s Busytown)

Social Media Anything
historical / lit characters w/ SM
(anachronism + empathy)
tweet as characters (or TodaysMeet)

@KleinErin
analog Instagram
Faux Facebook
Twitter parody account

use any genre to ﬁlter another thing
Students need to understand style
in order to use proper motifs
e.g. “Jersey Shore in the style of Oscar Wilde”

http://madmenintegrated.tumblr.com/

mood board: Padlet via @wickedDecent
historical events, novels (this is Of Mice and Men)

ppropriation
requires
ttribution

STANDING ON THE
SHOULDERS
OF GIANTS

escape the
VISE OF DOUBT
(also the “vice” of doubt)

the worst enemy
of creativity is self doubt
- Sylvia Plath

is often just
IMAGINATION
taking a wrong turn…
@austinkleon

cultivate a creative space..
ﬁnd your “Factory”
build your “woodshed”

restaurant row, Finland
encourage creativity
in unexpected places

thoughtfully consider
every space
as creative space

environment: student art
Celebrate and Immerse

Transparency and Empathy
(behind my classroom desk)

go
(best colour for inspiring creativity)

sharpies
dry erase markers
coloured pencils
coloured markers
scissors
glue sticks
$10 design kits
Mise en Place

environment: $10 design kits
Mise en Place

environment: creative curation

bricolage is best…
…be resourceful

The Studio
collaborating
planning/ brainstorming
developing
making/doing

The Studioteacher
troubleshoot
reﬁne
critique
guide

The Studio
Production
ask a student to be the “Paparazzo” + archive

Combinatorial /
Crowdsourced Creativity

cultivate
a constellation of creatives

have space for convening
with others outside your
sphere
watercooler effect

Pro - D walkabout?
“host” your room

EPIC WORK
comes from making a deeper
to who we are
& ﬁnding a MEDIUM to EXPRESS it well
to OTHERS
@berkun
CONNECTION

Don’t THINK about making ART -
just get it DONE.
Let everyone else decide
if it’s GOOD or bad…
…while they are deciding,
make even MORE ART.
Andy Warhol

just slap
something on it
- Vincent Van Gogh

There is no WIN
There is no
FAIL
There is only
MAKE
- John Cage

I just want to make
beautiful things…
even if nobody cares

Inﬂuences
Inspiration
Tools
Troubleshooting

GOAL
demonstrate learning / knowledge

original lyrics, music, vocals, art, ﬁlm editing
This I Believe project

project specs
roposals
rocess
ondering (reﬂection)

leave a blank column
for the unknown
Rubrics

Emoji Exit Ticket
Affective Data
how did I feel about my work or my learning?

tags to contextualize
Affective Data
how did I feel about my work or my learning?

must ruminate to innovate
Reﬂect
(metacognition)

@wickeddecent
1 word +
3 image
sketch note
(reﬂect 1st day
of school)

listicle
(Thinglink or info.gram)

5 takeaways
5 min vlog or ﬁlm
5 annotated images
5 paragraphs

Creative Speedsketching
Final Course Reﬂection

Creation
Creator
Motivation
Pos/Neg Effects
relations between
people and ideas
INFOGRAPHIC

pic/ play / post app
Process Product Reﬂection

Love the …
…What if…?
Peer Feedback
( Pixar’s “plussing” )

“The idea is not to
live forever,
it is to create
something that will.”
andy warhol

“If your work isn’t online
it doesn’t exist”
@austinkleon

Help along
the work of people
who have helped
YOU
@austinkleon

even the tiniest pencil can leave a lasting mark

It only takes
1 person,
1 event,
1 experience
to CREATE a SPARK
of PASSION
in a child
@timbuckteeth

your big takeaway
a question
your personal
challenge

@amyburvall
(on all social media)

expect to debrief / share / defend reasoning
try to post to the G+ under “Activities”
if you want you can tweet! #makedujour @amyburvall
Images are very welcome in addition to text
Sit near at least 1 other person
in your discipline

#oodledoodle
fold paper in half
1 half: doodle what you LOVE about your course or content
1 half: doodle what frustrates you /
what you found challenging / your struggles
(2 min each side)

Create a VENN using rubber bands
*humour encouraged

#simaglies
crowdsource photos from Instagram, camera roll
*swap phones to see other camera rolls?
OR use your own
Find 1 as an analogy for what you do/ how you teach /
teaching in general
(10 min)

#30 (9!) Circle Challenge
draw 9 semi even circles (ﬁll paper)
*normally done with 30 pre-drawn circles
in time given, ﬁll the circles with as many things as you can
think of that “are” a circle
extra challenge: try to relate to your curriculum OR
Shawnigan life
(5 min)

OREO Challenge
everyone gets 1 Oreo (a malleable object)
*if you need more you can partner with someone
use the Oreo, paper, + markers to visually depict some
concept you teach / advertise your content
you may change the Oreo any way you like!
1,2,3 photos or a short video
(15 min)

from @wickeddecent Pop Culture class

Use an everyday object
to create something else
OR
use one of the blot pages

Ironic T-Shirt
alone or with a partner
draw a t-shirt shape to ﬁll the page
think of concepts, vocabulary + people in your discipline
try to make a pun / play on words / portmanteau
illustrate as appropriate
(the image can be the funny part too)
(10-15 min)

Photo Challenge Calendar
with partners from your discipline, plan 1 month of photo
challenges (shoot for 30 ideas)
*try the silent brainstorm then converge
Challenges should relate to some aspect of your curriculum
Challenges should be technically easy (low barrier) but
mentally stimulating, reinforcing the concept
(10 min)

Create a Band
meet with 1-3 other people in your same discipline
(20 min)
Band Name= Title of Wikipedia article regarding some
aspect of your curriculum
Album Title: Quote or pieces of quote from someone key
to your discipline (famous ruler, philosopher, artist, scientist

Create a Band
Song Titles: relate to a concept you are teaching
(20 min)
Cover Art= Use search terms related to your subject area
OR a random Flickr or Instagram search (#tagged)
http://5card.cogdogblog.com/
OR try 5 card Flickr
Produce using an app, Photoshop, Gimp, PicMonkey

Colour Palette
Use ColourLovers site (http://www.colourlovers.com/ )
if you can
*if not, just make it up
Think of a concept, idea, person, etc. from your discipline
assign a palette to them + justify your reasoning
(10 min)

http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/add
To Kill a Mockingbird palette excerpt
@wickeddecent

Bio: stage in a process i.e. meiosis, mitosis,
cellular respiration
Chem: palette for each major family on the periodic table
P.E.: color coded system for tracking achievement
Art or Poli Sci: Movements
Explaining Intentions
is the Key

Design for the 5 Senses
REMIX an existing lesson
Try to appeal to all 5 senses:
Sight, Hearing, Taste, Touch, Smell
Using a Brainstorm Web helps
(10 min)

Plan a VlogMash
in the style of 50 People 1 Q
with partners from your discipline or alone
what question could you pose for students to answer
and create a “vlog mash”?
think deep, open-ended provocations, but ones that
require short, poignant responses
(5 min)

Beatle-fy Your Course
alone or with a partner from the same discipline
use any Beatle song as the base
(ﬁnd the lyrics + use to ﬁgure out rhyme scheme + meter
Try to write at least 1 verse BASED on
some concept you teach
(15 min)

History for Music Lovers YouTube: Iceman

History for Music Lovers: Illuminator

#4wordpedagogy OR
#lessandmore
based on @jessifer (Jesse Stommel)’s probe and mine…
use the constraints of 4 words
OR use Less_________More__________
What are your thoughts about good teaching?
shifts in education? what learning should look like?
(5 min)

#lessandmore: crowdsourced prompt

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