How can sharing Favorite Failures support creativity and learning? In this powerup you will address this question. More specifically you will further develop your understanding of the role failure and setbacks play in creativity and learning. You will also learn how to anticipate setbacks and incorporating stories of favorite failure you can support creativity and learning in your classroom.
Essential Questions:
Understand what the relationship between creativity and failure
Learn how to use the Favorite Failure framework to support productive learning and creative risk taking
This powerup aligns with INTASC learning standard #8.
Describe a learning activity where you can incorporate the Favorite Failure framework in your classroom and explain how it aligns with what you learned from the reading and brief video.
Read the brief article.
Watch the brief video.
Complete the Application Activity at the end of the presentation.
Application Activity: Describe how you can incorporate the favorite failure framework in your classroom
Identify a topic, activity, or subject you plan to teach and explain how you can establish creative openings into your classroom
Limit your description to no more than one page in length
Include a brief description of the context (e.g., grade level, subject area, learning task),
Focus on a specific topic, learning task, or learning experience, and
Explain how what you are describing aligns with the ideas presented in the failure and creativity article and includes the Favorite Failure questions (these can be modified for your specific context/activity).
Upload your completed description of a lesson or activity to the power-up assignment portal.
Failure and Creativity
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