Mar 21 - Creativity and Innovation

Good examples from our class:

Anna Gentry https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cFelb2DYjD

Kristin Sheaffer https://youtu.be/4k82oS4w3n8

What I learned from your online presentations:

Quality of the audio is important
Background music is nice but make sure the music doesn't cover your own voice
Visuals are better than text

Reading response#3 - Creativity. Due on Mar 26 by 11:59pm.

Read Shively's article below and complete the reading response#3.

Shively_Grow Creativity.pdf

Why creativity matters in education?

Ken Robinson has a popular TED talk titled as Do schools kill creativity? He made a powerful point that most of the students in K-12 classrooms today will be entering a job force that none of us can visualize now. Learning a specific skill set doesn't have the value in today's world that it once did. Learning how to be more creative (and thus adaptable) - now that's what prepares students for life beyond the classroom.

Do schools kill creativity?Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

Creativity Challenges

There are 8 famous blocks that prevent us from thinking creatively , the 8 blocks are:

1. Believing you aren’t creative

2. Making assumptions

3. Following the rules too strictly

4. Being serious

5. Avoiding risks or being wrong is bad

6. Always staying with your routines/habits

7. Thinking there is only one solution

8. Making judgments too quickly

Today we're going to challenge ourselves to overcome those blocks and free our creativity.

Cut that cake

The trainer brings in a round cake to celebrate the end of a successful session. Participants cannot eat it until they have cut it.

Rules :

The participants cannot make more than three cuts and they must divide the cake into eight pieces.

Manage resources

You and couple friends are trapped on an isolated island. The guarder of the island told you that if you can solve a puzzle for him, he'll show you the way to leave the island. He gave you 6 toothpicks and asked you to create 4 triangles with the toothpicks. Be aware that those toothpicks are the only resources you have and you have to find ways to use what you have to solve the puzzle.

Paper Airplane (whole class activity)

Each group will have 10 sheets of colored A4 papers. Use those papers to create paper airplanes.

Rules:

The winning team will get the most paper airplanes across the taped line.
You will have 3 minutes to discuss your strategies.
You will have 5 minutes to build your airplanes and get them across the taped line.
The distance between the start line and the finish line is 2 meters.

Reflection Time

Read the debrief paragraph and write down your take-aways from today's class on the index cards.

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