School Values Exploration:

Creativity!

Presented as part of the Skills and Knowledge Subject for the

Year 9 Imagine Program

School Vision

A world of learning

School Values

• Creativity– Encouraging behaviours which encompass notions

of innovation, originality, liberation and generative problem-solving in all that we do.

What does Creative Intelligence look like?

Definition:

Edward De BonoSix Thinking Hats

An aid to creative thinking‘You can analyse the past,

and you can design the future.’Edward de Bono

Six Thinking Hats

IntuitiveInformative

Constructive

Cautious

CreativeReflective

• This is the creative mode of thinking.

• Green represents growth and movement.

• Wearing the green hat we look to new ideas and solutions.

• Lateral thinking wears a green hat.

The Green Hat Thinking:Movement instead of Judgement

Challenge 1

• Research has shown that the best way to stimulate the creative part of the brain, is to stimulate it with practice.

• You have 60 seconds to write as many uses as you can think of for wire coat hangers

How many uses did you come up with?

On average 12 year old boys come up with 25 uses of the coat hanger.

Is our ability to think creatively at risk of being lost?

In most cases pre-school children explore their world through imagination and investigation and exercise ‘possibility thinking’

(the engagement of everyday problems at a deep level).

• As children become older, the prescriptive world of formal education pushes children through a series of educational narrow gates reduces their capacity to exercise ‘possibility thinking.’

Knowledge is limited, but creativity encircles the earth.’ Albert Einstein

What are the characteristics of creative thinking?

Creative thinking is characterised by:

• Imagination• Open-mindedness• A willingness to

explore unexpected routes

• Offer tools to address the issue.

How can we recognise creative thinking?

When students are thinking and behaving creatively in the classroom, they most often will be:

• Questioning and challenging• Making connections and

seeing relationships.• Envisaging what might be• Exploring ideas, keeping

options open• Reflecting critically on ideas,

actions and outcomes.

An Artist's Perspective on creativity?

The fear and excitement associated with the possibility that comes with a blank canvas.Jackson Pollock dancing colours - revisiting Pollock

movie with Ed Harris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2HN9G4Lx_w

The Creative Process in Eight Stages: Kimberly Brooks

“Like Kubler-Ross' five stages of death--Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance--I divide the creative process into eight stages.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kimberly-brooks/the-creative-process-in-e_b_71909.html

The Creative Process in Eight Stages: Kimberly Brooks

The first two are (1) Vision and (2) Hope.

I don't care who you are or what the medium, whether writer, filmmaker, musician, or lithographer or lawyer, or postman, every person goes through these two phases when they get struck by an idea.

Vision tends to come in a flash.

Then Hope makes the heart swoon and the mind swell around it. Being a great daydreamer helps.

Everyone is an artist.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kimberly-brooks/the-creative-process-in-e_b_71909.html

The Creative Process in Eight Stages: Kimberly Brooks

The difference between artists who create and artists who walk around pregnant with ideas is the third stage which I call (3) Diving In.

That's the scary one.

My father is a surgeon and I used to watch him operate a lot when I was a kid. I'll never forget that singular moment, in the theatre of the operating room, when he had to press the scalpel into the flesh and make the cut. That's a surgeon's "Diving In".

Mine just had less blood!

• The next four stages are (4) Excitement (5) Suspicion (6) Clarity and (7) Obsession.

Often I bounce between Excitement and Suspicion--suspicion that perhaps my instincts are wrong; that I'm heading in the wrong direction -- (Anxiety! Despair!)

Finally I move on to Clarity. Clarity, like Vision, often happens in a moment-- when the sky opens and I can hear the angels sing.

Then my favourite part is the tireless consuming fever of Obsession, the life force of every artist.

• The entire sequence can tend to form an infinite loop.

The Creative Process in Eight Stages: Kimberly Brooks

The last stage is (8) Resolution. Very elusive. The composer Aaron Copland said he didn't finish compositions so much as abandon them. When it's finally over, it feels like a whole relationship has ended.

And then the anticipated rush of doing it all over begins again...

The Creative Process in Eight Stages: Kimberly Brooks

The often not attempted ninth stage of the eight stage process! ;)

EXHIBIT

Share your creativity with the world in any way possible.

Your Turn now... A new hat to wear.

What do all inventors have? Creativity!

• Think-Pair-Share Activity• Aim: Form a team to design an

invention that could change the world.

What do all inventors have? Creativity! Activity

• An invention is a product of the imagination, which can be a device or a process. Individually make a list of inventions that make your life easier.

• Share your list of helpful inventions with your group.

• Discuss with your group what your lives would be like without these inventions. What wouldn't you be able to do?

What do all inventors have? Creativity! Activity

• Now make a group list of inventions that you wish were available. What tasks could be made easier? How?

• With others in your group, choose one invention to make. Together, draw a sketch of your invention on Butchers paper-large enough to present to the class.

• Create a paragraph to explain the name of your invention, how it works, and its purpose.

• Each group will have an opportunity to present their invention to the rest of the class

Video Clips

• TEDxDoha - Taika Waititi - The Art of Creativity– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL71KhNmnls

• TEDxFullerton - Kimberly Brooks - Creative Process In 8 Stages– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mLxxZ7BllI

• OSCON 2010: Paul Fenwick, "The World's Worst Inventions“– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyRdnV1D-mI

To finish……..

‘Perhaps the most important benefit from teaching thinking is the increase in self-esteem and self-confidence of those taught. A youngster taught thinking feels in control of his of her life-instead of feeling like a cork carried along by a stream of life and controlled by the currents.’

Edward de Bono.

Presentation Created By Ragnar Haabjoern

www.thewonderingecologist.blogspot.com.auhttp://au.linkedin.com/in/rhaabjoern