Interactive workshop conducted on June 15, 2017 at the Career College Ontario's annual conference in Niagara-on-the-Lake #CCO17

1. Creativity across the College
Getting the most out of your students from day one!
Shalak Attack, Bruno Smoky, and Fiya Bruxa 2015

2. Workshop overview
 What is creativity?
 Why creativity?
 How to integrate creativity
into practice
 Q&A
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CREATIVITY ACROSS THE COLLEGE:
GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR
STUDENTS FROM DAY ONE!
Thurs June 15, 3:00 pm - 3:55 pm
Introducing creativity into the classroom
doesn't have to make the job harder —
it can actually make it a lot more
interesting for instructors and students!
Come to this session to learn about
what creativity is (and is not), why
creativity is important for seizing the
opportunity for institutional
transformation and experience easy
engaging ways to bring more creativity
to teaching and learning college-wide.

3. What is creativity?
15 minute activity
Video & Debrief

4. Creativity Challenge #1
Form groups of 2 or 3 at your table
Complete this FOIL CRITTER task
FOIL CRITTER TASK
Create a critter out of the foil provided
Present a performance to your tablemates in
which you tell a story involving the critter
For the purpose of this challenge, a ‘critter’ is an animal
Tips to Consider
o Divide up roles among your team
o Plan and practise your performance
o Present your performance to your tablemates Destination Imagination, Inc 2013

5. Creativity Challenge #2
Form groups of 2 or 3 at your table
Complete this DISH DUTY task
DISH DUTY TASK
Build the tallest tower you can on the floor using
the materials provided
Your tower must stand for 10 seconds without any team
member touching it before its final height is measured
Tips to Consider
o Building takes time so manage time wisely
o Use the measuring tape to measure the height of your tower,
o Measuring tape or scissors cannot be part of your tower Destination Imagination, Inc 2013

6. Workshop overview
At your tables,
Form groups of 2 or 3
Pick a creativity challenge
Read the instructions
together
Complete the task (10 minutes)
Share findings at your table
(1-2 minutes/each)

7. Sir Ken Robinson, Can Creativity Be Taught?

8. According to Sir Ken Robinson, creativity is…
The process of having
“
”
original ideas
that have value
Discuss for 5 minutes at your tables

9. venspired.com
Why
creativity?
http://venspired.com

10. Sir Ken Robinson, Why is Creativity Important in Education?

11. Adobe™ State of Creativity Study, 2012

12. Adobe™ Creative in Education: Why it Matters, 2012

13. Review the infographic. What professions might demand
more creativity than others in Canada?
Discuss at your tables

14. Be Creative.
Access Course Materials
For Every Student from Day One.
Institutional Transformations
Creativity in Action

15. Be Creative. Students Benefit.
Student Success
Every student having
access the first day of
class and anywhere,
anytime = student
success.
Convenience
eTexts can be
downloaded to more
than one device and
accessed both online
and offline. Anytime,
anywhere.
 Relevance
 Preparing
students for the
future. Learning
that embraces
current
technology.
 Students with Disabilities
 Student who require alternate
versions of their books, receive
them faster. The font size can be
increased and the text can be
converted to audio.

16. Be Creative. Instructors Benefit.
Student Achievement
ACCESS - Every student
has the required learning
material all the time
 Student Achievement
 Responsive, personalized learning
experiences

17. Be Creative. Your Business will Benefit.
• Access & Achievement - Improve student retention
• Affordability – Significant savings on learning resources
• Analytics – Access to data you haven’t had before
• Accessibility for Students with Disabilities

18. Hiring managers (n=1068) see creativity as important to
society and the economy, but only half of business grasp its
importance
Adobe ™, Creative Candidates Get Hired Study, 2014

19. Modern approach needed to help students prepare for
success
Adobe ™, Creative Candidates Get Hired Study, 2014

20. How to integrate creativity into practice?

21. Adobe ™, Barriers to Creativity in Education, 2013

22. 1. Don’t limit assignments to one
format
2. Set time aside for creativity through
problem solving
3. Use technology to broaden your
idea of assignments
4. Introduce unconventional learning
materials into class
5. Encourage discussion and
collaboration
5 ways to bring more
creativity into the
classroom
Image via Flickr by Linus Bohman Adapted from Hicks, 2015 http://www.edudemic.com/creativity-in-the-classroom/

23. Q A