Create

Students will:

practice divergent and convergent thinking
create new knowledge or products.

Through three stages:

imagine
connect
consider.

Imagine

Imagine possibilities (CCT) and plan solutions (ICT)

Imagine possibilities

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Brainstorming

Students help each other to generate a large number of ideas.

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Analogy

Helps students build conceptual bridges between what is familiar and what is new.

Plan solutions

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Design thinking

A methodology that provides a solution-based approach to solving problems using rapid prototyping.

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SWOT analysis

Students consider strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats for a situation or idea.

Connect

Connect ideas and draw conclusions (CCT)

Connect ideas

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Affinity diagram

Helps students organise a large number of ideas into relationships or groups.

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Hexagonal thinking

Helps students to explore and communicate the connections between words and ideas.

Draw conclusions

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Y Charts

Helps students move from the concrete to the abstract as they define and scope a concept.

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Concept map

A visual organiser that can help students bring disparate ideas together.

Consider

Consider alternatives and apply logic and reasoning (CCT)

Consider alternatives

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Six thinking hats

A thinking process that gives each student a persona to critique an idea.

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Thirty circles

A creativity warm up activity that asks students to turn 30 circles into different objects in a very short period of time.

Apply logic and reasoning

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Logic modelling

Helps to picture how an initiative is supposed to work. It explains why a strategy is a good solution to the problem at hand.