Creative Process

Learning through Mucking About

Creativity means to make

something new or original of

value

Is Creativity Valued?

Is playing around just wasting time?

Who would think to make a cloud indoors?

Dutch artist Berndnaut did.

Sir Ken Robinson We're all born with deep natural

capacities for creativity AND systems of mass education tend to suppress them.

It is increasingly urgent to cultivate these capacities -- for personal, economic and cultural reasons -- and to rethink the dominant approaches to education to make sure that we do.

We must explore the nature of creativity and how emerging technologies can extend our creative abilities and can transform teaching and learning at the same time.

Education Continues to….

1) promote standardization and a narrow view of intelligence when human talents are diverse and personal.

2) promote compliance when cultural progress and achievement depend on the cultivation of imagination and creativity.

3) promote education as linear and rigid when the course of each human life, including yours, is organic and largely unpredictable.

- Are Schools Killing Creativity? (TED Talk)

Fertile Minds need feeding

Most of us are starving

What do you think?

“Creativity in the schools might mean a day off the curriculum to do "the arts" after pupils have sat tests. It's a myth to call this creative learning, she says. Creativity must be embedded into everyday teaching and learning. "Many schools haven't got a handle on the language of creativity and are reticent about teaching more creatively," she says. "They are worried they won't achieve standards in other things.””

From: Fertile minds need feedingAre schools stifling creativity? Ken Robinson tells Jessica Shepherd why learning should be good for the soul. Jessica Shepherd, The Guardian, Tuesday 10 February 2009

Creative Process Explained

Wallace - 1926

• Preparation

• Incubation

• Illumination

• Verification

Osborn - 1963

• Orientation

• Preparation

• Analysis

• Ideation

• Incubation

• Synthesis

• Evaluation

Models of Creativity

Ideas must be of personal relevance for extensive exploration:

• Research• Experimentation• Collaboration• Refinement

What do you see?

Dr. Robert Kelly

Creativity is not just the exclusive,

rarified territory of artists.

Business leaders and economists are

embracing it, social theorists are

calling for more of it, ordinary people

are tapping into it to create their own

content in online spaces like YouTube

and MySpace. Society as a whole is

starting to acknowledge that

creativity is the fundamental

human trait that transcends

disciplines and leads to design,

invention, collaboration and

innovation.

Fostering a Creative

Disposition

Self: own the learning

CuriosityOpen ended

Sustain over time

CollaborationDiscipline/skill

Barriers to Creativity

TimeToo much

Too little

End Product

Prescribed

Little choice No Mistakes

Failures not valued

Find the right answer quickly

Generative

make

createdesign

build

compose choreograph source

DO

Don’t treat it as

precious

Ideational fluency

Idea rich

Comfortable with ideas

Open to ideas changing and

evolving

DivergenceLateral thinking

Many ways to solve

Opposite of convergent

thinking

Studies show that we loose our divergent thinking ability as we mature. Using eight tests of divergent thinking, researchers gave the tests to 1600 preschool children.

"The first tests were given when the children were between three and five years of age. Ninety-eight percent of the children scored in the genius category.

When these same children took the identical test five years later, only 32 percent scored that high.

Five years later it was down 10 percent.

Two hundred thousand adults over the age of 25 have taken the same tests. Only two percent scored at the genius level."

--Land and Jarman

98%

32%10%

2%

Make the strange familiar and the familiar strange

Metaphor

Thinking with images that relate to one another in unusual ways

Juxtaposition…. that deepens the way you understand the original thing/object/subject