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 Question to Guide Summaries: Can we teach ourselves and our students to be creative, and if so, how?

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> > > > (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). > > media type="custom" key="7945572" > Resnick begins by quoting Obama from his inaugural address: "It has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things . . . who have carried us up the long road to prosperity and freedom." Consider how we can create the conditions for our students to become "risk-takers, doers, and makers of things."
 * James Paul Gee on the Creativity Crisis
 * Daniel Pink’s Six Creative Elements
 * Creatively Speaking: Sir Ken Robinson on the Power of the Imaginative Mind
 * Mitch Resnick on Cultivating Creative Communities