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Practical Creativity
Fostering Creative Thinking in the Classroom
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Objectives for this workshop
• Disclaimer and a story • Defining creativity • Exploring “deliberate creativity” • Creative thinking models • Activity • Applications in the classroom
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WHAT IS CREATIVITY?
CAN WE DEFINE IT?
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Creativity... Fact or Fiction?
• Creativity is the result of innate talent
• Creativity is mainly associated with the arts
• Children are more creative than adults
• Creativity is the same as originality
• Creativity cannot be taught
• Creativity is the result of hard work
• Creativity cuts across all areas of life
• True creative achievement requires years of experience
• Creativity is the intersection of novelty an usefulness
• Creativity can be enhanced through teaching and training
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Creativity is often defined as…
• “Creative thinking is both the capacity to combine or synthesize existing ideas, images, or expertise in original ways and the experience of thinking, reacting, and working in an imaginative way characterized by a high degree of innovation, divergent thinking, and risk taking”
• Novel, Useful • Emerging as a discipline??? • A 21st century skill
assessment.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/CreativeThinking.pdf
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Creativity for the 21st Century workforce
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h"p://www.artsusa.org/pdf/information_services/research/policy_roundtable/ready_to_innovate.pdf
Creativity can be taught!
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Deliberate Creativity WHY?
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School Kills Creativity? • VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
• Our schools are often hostile to ideas. Our tests ask students to come up with one right answer, and the curriculum, pegged to tests, penalizes the creative students rather than reward him/her for the unexpected but thoughtful-or even brilliant response (Tough Choices for Tough Times 2008)
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Yes, but…and other idea killers
• Ignorance • Extreme Pessimism • Unreasonable Haste • Direct Interruption • Getting Personal • Unthinking How to destroy a potentially great brainstorming session or idea but just being present.
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Creativity with Purpose • We are ALL creative • Students may brand themselves unknowingly • Creative Ideas sometimes happen by accident • BUT…how do we turn great ideas into a useful and
novel idea? • IMPLEMENTATION?
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Start with Yes, and…
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Creative Thinking Models Deliberate Creativity
How can these be integrated into your teaching?
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Creative Thinking Models 6 Thinking Hats (DeBono) • Tool for parallel thinking
CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING (Osborne) • Creative Problem Solving
(CPS) is a structured process for solving problems or finding opportunities
• Divergent and Convergent Thinking
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Reading Guides
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Creative Problem Solving CPS
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Brainstorming “Ideation”
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Principles of Divergent Thinking
• Suspend judgment • Go for quantity of ideas • Make connections • Seek wild and usual ideas
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Principles of Convergent Thinking
• Judge Affirmatively • Check your objectives • Refine and Cluster ideas; stay
focused • Keep Novelty Alive
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DeBono and Creativity • “The biggest problem is not climate
change or overpopulation, the biggest problem is poor thinking”
• “The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future”
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Thinking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAE1SVeRoig&feature=related
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Intelligence and thinking; re-‐‑thinking creativity
1. Everyone is creative in some way 2. Intelligence is NOT the same as thinking 3. Highly intelligent people can be poor thinkers 4. Creative skills can be learned 5. People of limited intelligence can learn to think
well 6. The trained thinker has the advantage 7. Creativity requires structure 8. Thinking in the operating skill with which we use our
intelligence 9. Thinking skills can be developed and improved
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Intelligence and thinking 1. Everyone is creative in some way (CPS) 2. Intelligence is NOT the same as thinking 3. Highly intelligent people can be poor thinkers 4. Creative skills can be learned (CPS) 5. People of limited intelligence can learn to think
well 6. The trained thinker has the advantage 7. Creativity requires structure (CPS) 8. Thinking in the operating skill with which we use our
intelligence 9. Thinking skills can be developed and improved
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6 Thinking Hats problems facts
feeling
positives thinking
possibilities
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Facts • Details • Information gathering • What do we need?
Where can we get it?
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Red Hat Intuition Emotions Hunches...
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OPTIMISM • Benefits? • Positives? • Can it work?
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Black Hat CAUTION • Difficulties • Drawbacks • Risks • problems
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Green Hat CREATIVITY
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Blue Hat Thinking about thinking • Organizing • Filtering • Optimizing
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SEQUENCING HATS
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SEQUENCING HATS
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SEQUENCING HATS
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• The 6 hats method replaces adversarial thinking with parallel thinking
• Allows people to switch thinking modes • Separates out thinking • Separates ego from performance • Explores subject IN PARALLEL • Trigger the next process… • Collaborative thinking
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Key points • Six types of thinking • Represented by 6 hats with • 6 colors • NOT CATEGORIES • Each thinker SHOULD BE ABLE TO USE ALL 6 HATS
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h"p://www.thoughtfullearning.com/blogpost/thinking-‐‑breathing
Critical Thinking?
Breathing in: Critical Thinking Breathing out: Creative Thinking
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Activity
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Plan a sequence for • Idea generation • Strategic plan • Process improvement • Problem solving session • Planning an event • Planning a debate • Other…
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Use the 6 thinking hats handout
• “Should marriage licenses be renewed every 5 years?”
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Applications in the Classroom
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Any Ideas?
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CREDITS AND RESOURCES
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Some Resources • CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING http://1.1.1.2/bmi/
www.idea-sandbox.com/blog/blog_images/cps_osborn.jpg
• Creative Problem Solving Osborne-Parnes • CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING http://1.1.1.4/bmi/
www.creativeeducationfoundation.org/~creat155/sites/default/files/images/cps_process.jpg
• What creativity implies: American Association of School Administrators and Americans for the Artshttp://www.artsusa.org/pdf/information_services/research/policy_roundtable/ready_to_innovate.pdf
• Creativity Rising: Creative Thinking and Creative Problem Solving in the 21st century. ICSC Press International center for creative studies, Buffalo NY
• Edward deBono: Six Thinking hats