November 23, 2020
Takeaways from, “Novel, Effective, and Whole: Toward a New Framework for Evaluations of Creative Products,” by D. Henriksen, P. Mishra, and R. Mehta.
Tune to Patience by Shawn Mendes
How to get Student Success
[Verse 1]
Creativity, is brand new
It’s from the 21st century
Novel, effective, and whole
Yet, there are always challenges when teachers are assessing
How do we best assess this, yeah
[Pre-Chorus]
Ooh, teachers have to teach to test
Be creative we want you to try
It leads to independence
which differs for everyone
[Chorus]
First we let learners on their own yet it’s hard
to individually grade them I'm all alone
We give this five point scale, but is that the best?
How do we find success?
We want ideas that are N.E.W.
Ideas that push student success, yeah
[Verse 2]
Creativeness helps us learn best
We become our own learners
who strive to do better every time, yeah
Deep down when we offer feedback students grasp deeper thought
5 point scales leave us such a mess
[Pre-Chorus]
Ooh, let their minds be little freed
Give them freedom tests take it from me
Oh, I want the aesthetic
‘of the wholeness of products
[Chorus]
Moving forward I will take a deeper look
As a teacher and a learner perspective yeah
Keep differentiating what I teach
give students many ways
Instead of teaching to test
Ideas that drive student success, yeah
[Bridge]
And give students choice, if you know
they learn better, choice boards go
‘Have students adapt to learn
Yeah, they will be more creative
[Chorus]
Creativity is about being N.E.W.
Teachers and learners need to adapt to the times
Tell me that you willing, then you have success
Yeah, let’s change the way we think
[Outro]
First we let learners on their own yet it’s hard
21st century learning is the way to go
Tell me that you willing, adapt to the world
for the definition
of creativity to
be more concrete yet it’s up to us
to assess creativity, yeah
for we want student success, yeah