3. Ask a class of first graders
“Are you creative?”
Ask a class of tenth graders
“Are you creative?”
What have we done
to these children?
Image: 'ijc'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23474554@N00/3561179958
16. 50%
20% Time in school - Kevin Brookhouser
http://www.iteachithink.com/2012/07/give-your-students-20-time-to-do.html
http://www.iteachithink.com/2012/08/a-letter-to-my-students-and-parents.html
http://www.iteachithink.com/2012/08/20-project-bad-idea-factory.html
27. The short term memory
capacity for most people
is between 5 and 9 digits.
How could you find out?
28.
29. The Value of Play
Curiosity
Idea Starters
Offering Choice
Combining Ideas
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12836528@N00/2394279602/
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35.
36. A tap drips at a rate of 10 drops
per minute into a large cylindrical
container. Each drop contains 5 ml
of water.
The cylindrical container is 1.5m
tall and 1.1m in diameter, with a
wall thickness of 50mm.
1.1m
How long would it take
for the water to fill the
container?
1.5m
Problem idea by Dan Meyer, Image by Chris Betcher
37. Find an interesting photo
(try Flickr’s Last 7 Days Interestingness)
Come up with a question, task or
problem that uses this image as a prompt
for an activity
Combine the image and the prompt on a
Keynote or PowerPoint slide
Send your single slide to xxxxxx
(Keynote or PowerPoint)
• Writing prompts for creative writing - http://writingprompts.tumblr.com/
• More writing prompts - http://photoprompts.tumblr.com/
• And even more - http://visualwritingprompts.wordpress.com/
38. The Value of Play
Curiosity
Idea Starters
Offering Choice
Combining Ideas
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14838182@N00/6518707833/
45. The Value of Play
Curiosity
Idea Starters
Offering Choices
Combining Ideas
http://www.flickr.com/photos/detune/215354076/
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49. “Creativity is just connecting things.
When you ask a creative person how
they did something, they may feel a little
guilty because they didn’t really do it, they
just saw something. It seemed obvious to
them after a while.
That’s because they were able to connect
experiences they’ve had and synthesize
new things.”
Steve Jobs
50. http://www.flickr.com/photos/heartlover1717/7239093684/
Substitute - components, materials, people
Combine - mix, combine with other assemblies or
services, integrate
Adapt - alter, change function, use part of another
element
Modify - increase or reduce in scale, change
shape, modify attributes (e.g. colour)
Put to another use
Eliminate - remove elements, simplify, reduce to
core functionality
Reverse - turn inside out or upside down
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newCT_02.htm
53. “Overprotecting intellectual property is as as
harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is
impossible without a rich public domain.
Overprotection stifles the very creative forces
it is supposed to nurture...
... Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed
fire, is genuinely new: Culture, like science and
technology, grows by accretion, each new
creator building on the works of those who
came before”
Judge Alex Kozinski
US Court of Appeals
54. all rights some rights public
reserved reserved domain
59. The Value of Play
Curiosity
Idea Starters
Offering Choice
Combining Ideas
60. How do we get creativity from our students?
Give then something
interesting to work on
Give them the time, tools and
skills they need
Get out of their way!
Image: 'newt'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24471966@N04/3102653703
61. The less restrictions you
place on a task, the more
creative the response
The more restrictions you
place on a task, the less
creative the response
Image: 'Vintage block print illustration'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10278395@N08/2310455009
62. Make it “hard fun”
Be ambitious for them
Image: 'Bravo'
http://www.flickr.com/photos/92953327@N00/234931709