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Creative Learning
Steve WheelerPlymouth University, UK
with social media
Technical University Liberec, Czech Republic: May 22, 2013
The answer is in the room
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The pace of change is
accelerating
How will we keep up with it?
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"In the times of rapid change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
- Eric Hoffer
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“For the first time we are preparing
students for a future we
cannot clearly describe.”
- David Warlick
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What kind of learners?
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Learners taking notesPhoto: Lori Cullen
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Digital Natives?
The Net
Generation?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/56155476@N08/5667863948/
Homo
Zappiens?
Millennials?
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Power users 14%
Ordinary users 27%
Irregular users 14%
Basic users 45%
Source: Kennedy et al (2010) Beyond Digital Natives and Immigrants: Exploring types of net generation students, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 26 (5).
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The research shows something else…
http://truedantalion.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/silver-surfers.html
Digital Residents or Visitors? White and Le Cornu, 2012
‘New’ learners are...• more self-directed• better equipped to capture information• more reliant on feedback from peers• more inclined to collaborate• more oriented toward being their own “nodes of production”.
Education Trends | Featured NewsJohn K. Waters—13 December 2011
http://coolshots.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html
But they need
much more...
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“60% of all Internet pages contain
misleading information.”
- Thomas Edison
Learners need ‘digital literacies’
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“Lee Harvey and the Wailers”(Lee Harvey did not jam alone)
http://www.myspace.com/hsu/photos/6850630
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Managing online identity
nameimages
netiquettereputation
avatar interaction
privacy
personal data
identity
legacy
reputationname
privacy
images
interaction
http://i.dailymail.co.uk
Learners need ‘digital wisdom’
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Not only skills... ...Literacies
Learners will need new ‘literacies’• Social networking• Transliteracies• Privacy maintenance• Identity management• Creating content• Organising content• Reusing and repurposing• Filtering and selecting• Self presenting
http://www.mopocket.com/
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“Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
- SocratesPlato
http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-713124904
Darwikianism Stev
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Flip the roles, not the classroom
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http://le-flaneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/office-workers.jpg
Mass working...
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... led to mass synchronisation
http://www.delasallewaterford.com
Linear thinkingConformity
Standardisation
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The ICT Suite...
http://www.hseb.utah.edu
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/53921113@N02/5668616495/
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http://blog.prosperyourmind.com
What is creativity?
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Creativity
“Creativity in general is the ability to come up with new ideas that are surprising yet
intelligible, and also valuable in some way”
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http://flexyourgeek.com
“Creativity (in general) is the ability to come up with new ideas that are surprising yet intelligible, and also
valuable in some way”
(Boden, 2001)
Creativity?
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http://flexyourgeek.com
Combinational creativity - combining old ideas in new ways.
e.g. Analogy in science
3 types of Creativity
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http://flexyourgeek.com
Exploratory creativity - what do the rules enable me to do?
e.g. Jazz music.
3 types of Creativity
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Transformational creativity - significant alteration of one or more rules in concept space.
e.g. E=MC2.
3 types of Creativity
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Wallas: 4 Stage Creative Process
PreparationIncubationIlluminationVerification
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http://flexyourgeek.com
Why do we need creative learning?
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Think Different
Kick start your brain. New ideas come from watching
something, talking to people, experimenting,
asking questions, getting out of the office
- Steve Jobs
http://steve-jobs-biography.pics-grabber.appspot.com/
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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way
- Edward de Bono
http://www.flickr.com/photos/caveman_92223/3346906435/
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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties
- Erich Fromm
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Creativity takes courage
- Henri Matisse
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Permission to fail?
http://blog.prosperyourmind.com
How do you know when learners are being creative?
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We need creative solutions...
Join all nine dotsusing only four straight lines. Do not takeyour pen from the paper and do not go back over any lines.
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A man enters a field with an unopened package and dies. Why?
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http://blog.prosperyourmind.com
What areas of your practice do you want to make more creative?
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Information overload
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Aggregators and curators
http://simfonic.deviantart.com/art/Crumpled-Paper-Ball-Writing-195224259
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Finding, storing and sharing
delicious.com
diigo.com
Social tagging, bookmarking and folksonomies.
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pearltrees.com
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1) Choose 3-4 significant things in the room2) Write a one word description for each on your post-it notes3) Stick the post-it notes onto the things
“If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.”
- Jean Piaget
Image from Jose Mota: http://www.flickr.com/photos/josemota/3617683026/
Gam
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“When we play games we rapidly solve abstract problems in real time ...while being continually assessed ... and often working collaboratively..”
-Graham Brown-MartinHead Teacher Update (Jan 2012)
http://blog.prosperyourmind.com
What will be your plan for the future? Will it involve more creativity?
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“All too often today we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”
- John W Gardner
http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/image/s_flowers-lost-gardens-of-heligan.jpg
http://www.newcastle.edu.au
The future?
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Tower of Hanoi…
What is the least number of moves, one disk at a time, necessary to move x disks from one peg to another - all three pegs can be used, only one disk moved at a time and no disk may be placed on top of a smaller disk.
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