Creativity

=Creativity= Are you creative? Seriously, do you consider yourself to be a creative person? It's fascinating how early on in life we learn to consider ourselves either creative or not. Reflect for a moment before you begin to explore these resources about creativity and consider what creativity means to you and how creative you feel that you are. Do you agree with Sir Ken Robinson that creativity is "a process of having original ideas that have value?"

With your thoughts about creativity now at the forefront of your mind, consider any frameworks you may have learned in your teacher education courses that would prepare you to teach your students to be creative.

Specific Inquiry Questions to Guide Our VoiceThread Summaries: Can we teach ourselves and our students to be creative, and if so, how? What digital tools can we use to enhance our creativity?

Resources: > > James Paul Gee, well-known for his research into the new litercies and video gaming, recently described not the literacy but the creativity crisis as the most profound since Sputnik's revolution around the Earth created the Science/Technology race. > > > > Garr Reynolds is a true 21st century Renaissance Man and he recognizes another 21st century Renaissance Man, Daniel Pink. Read to learn how they advocate that we can prepare individuals to be creative. Could this be one way to begin to operationalize the teaching of creativity? > > Read a synopsis of Pink's influential thinking on creativity on Garr Reynold's PresentationZen Blog: > From Design to Meaning: A Whole, New Way of Presenting> >
 * James Paul Gee on the Creativity Crisis
 * Daniel Pink’s Six Creative Elements

> > Dan Pink, author of //A Whole New Mind//, arguably one of the most important books of the past decade, came to Raleigh in February 2010 to share his knowledge with state leaders at Governor Hunt's Emerging Issues Forum. The focus was on creativity and Pink explained the need for the creativity and innovation that come from thinking with the whole brain. You can watch Pink's presentation -- 5 parts archived on YouTube. Part 1 is his introduction, in Part 2 Pink explains Whole New Mind theory, and in Parts 3, 4, and 5 he argues the case for why we must develop more creative thinkers given the shifting global landscapes. > > > > (Apple Educational Leadership Conference, April 2008) > > A noted (and knighted) authority in the business world, Sir Ken Robinson speaks of the power of everyone's creative capacity and the need to transform education so "we operationalize the teaching of creativity much as we do literacy or numeracy" (Robinson, April 2008). > > > eSchoolNews, May 19, 2008 [Heads-Up: You'll may need to create a free eSchoolNews account to access this article.] > > Read this article to learn how the business world and education are approaching the important task of educating creative individuals and consider how your education prepared you to be creative -- or not.
 * Dan Pink - Think with Your Whole Brain
 * Creatively Speaking: Sir Ken Robinson on the Power of the Imaginative Mind
 * Creativity Is Important But Neglected