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Mission Statement:

When a student is allowed to choose their method of learning, it can be more effective than being confined to traditional methods.

What is Creative Learning?

Paraphrased from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_education.

Creative learning is when students are allowed to use imagination and critical thinking to create new forms of ideas where they can take risks and be independent.

Types of Creative Learning

List created with information from https://simplicable.com/new/creative-learning.
  • Hypothetical Questions: questions that contain imaginary scenarios.
  • Open-end questions: questions that allow for an unconstrained answer
  • Abstraction: working with ideas that differ from reality but are nonetheless useful in explaining it.
  • Improvisation: games and exercises designed to stimulate improvisation.
  • Analogy: explaining things with an analogy or asking learners to develop an analogy.
  • Thought Experiment: communicating information as a thought experiment or asking learners to design thought experiments to support, refute, or validate an idea.
  • Jugaad: designing practical workarounds as opposed to complete solutions to a problem.

Why It's Important

Explanation inspired by https://www.edsys.in/creativity-in-classroom/.

First of all, using diverse methods of creative learning will always reinforce ideas in one's mind. Also, there are many overall benefits to creative learning. Making learning fun will make students want to learn, and create lifelong learning habits. Also, when students are allowed to be creative in their learning, they have freedom of expression. This means that students are allowed to use whatever learning methods they want in a creative way that is individual to that student. This allows students to follow their individual passions. With these indiviual learning methods, students aquire innovative growth mindsets and stronger thinking capabilities. This boosts problem-solving skills. With all the benefits of creative learning, it's a mystery to some people why it's not used more often. This brings up another important point. A student may require creative learning, but it is up to the teacher to provide it.

Creative Learning Spiral

The creative learning spiral shows how going on an unknown path may result in learning more than you expected.

Creative Learning Diagram

Not only does this image show information about creative learning, but it is a prime example of creativity. Using individual methods to convey information is a highly effective method.

Creative Capacity

Let's assume that when a child begins school, their mind is at 100% creative capacity. As the need for being creative drops, so does the creative capacity of the child's mind. This is why younger children often have more success with creative projects.

Edgar Dale's Cone of Experience

Edgar Dale's Cone of Experience shows how people, and children in particular, remember material better if they incorporate an action. Memorization is not enough. In order to fully understand a concept, we must act.

The Powerful Effects of Drawing on Learning

Learn about how the brain remembers things better when multiple methods are involved.

Five Dangerous Things Every School Should Do

This video shows how when students are allowed to pursure their own interests, the possibilities are endless.

References

Here's a list of sites I used during the creation of my blog.