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Category Archives: Creative thinking
Fostering Creative Thinking – Co-constructed Insights from Neuroscience and Education
Although every creative act contains elements of spontaneity, teachers can play a critical role in fostering creative thinking processes through the use of environment and strategy. No single part of our brain is responsible for creativity. Some regions linked to … Continue reading
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The Missing Alphabet: A Parents’ Guide to Developing Creative Thinking in Kids
The future will belong to children with innovative minds. Which is why this team of education experts have drawn on their decades of applied research in creativity, individuality, play, and media to craft an engaging guide for parents who understand … Continue reading
A “Small-World” Network Model of Cognitive Insight
Despite many decades of study, scientists still puzzle over the process of insight. By what mechanism does a person experience that “Aha!” moment, when sudden clarity emerges from a tangled web of thoughts and ideas? This research integrates psychological work … Continue reading
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Enhancing Everyday Creativity Using Elements of Improvisation
A qualitative approach was used to investigate the elements of improvisation and why they are being used in a variety of fields to enhance creative, innovative thinking. Seven individuals from diverse disciplines, who all incorporate improvisational techniques in their work, … Continue reading
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How Geniuses Think
How do geniuses come up with ideas? What is common to the thinking style that produced “Mona Lisa,” as well as the one that spawned the theory of relativity? What characterizes the thinking strategies of the Einsteins, Edisons, daVincis, Darwins, … Continue reading
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Why should Schools be interested in Creativity
Creativity is analogous to Intelligence in several ways • Everyone has some • It can be developed and nurtured • There are levels • It can be expressed in many ways • It can be viewed as a general ability … Continue reading
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We Need to Rethink How We View Creativity
The creative leader‘s role is not to control, but to create the right environment, to mix things up, to change the dynamics, to protect the vision, to challenge people to keep learning. Leaders are not set up to know all … Continue reading
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Creatagogy – Creativity and Creative Learning
What is creative learning? How could it be applied in school, community and networks? Does creativity stifle or nurture? Creativity and creative learning, how is it valued in community, and schools? “Teachers say they want creativity, but that is not … Continue reading
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Creativity – Its place in Education
“The roots of a creative society are in basic education. The sheer volume of facts to be digested by the students of today leaves little time for a deeper interrogation of their moral worth. The result has been a generation … Continue reading
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Collaborative Environments to Foster Creativity, Reuse and Sharing of OER
The popularity of ICT within teachers has operated a shift between an individual way of producing resources to be used in class and a social way of doing it. Nowadays teachers do not have to be passive users, but reflective … Continue reading
Posted in CoP, Creative pedagogy, Creative thinking, Creativity, OER, Pedagogy, Social creativity
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