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What is Creativity?

What is Creativity? | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it

What is Creativity?


In the leadership development world, creativity is currently getting a great deal of attention. But what is it? Can you learn it? Is it a skill? How do we lead in ways that encourage it?


When we explore the question “What is creativity?” from a thinking and learning point of view, an open and active mind is clearly required – one that can see new possibilities. But is there more to it than that? This post explores the variables that make up what we think of as “creativity.”

 

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We need creative people to facilitate the understanding of data

We need creative people to facilitate the understanding of data | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it

"Creativity is driven by Social dynamics.

Creativity is the result of a set of relationships with a strong social dimension and emotional. It is a collaborative environment (and this is where HR can play a significant role), hence the change of focus towards the organizational culture and transformation in design organizations.”

 

“We need an inclusion in this dialogue from artists, from poets, from writers — from ===> people who can bring a human element into this discussion. <====

 

Because I believe that this world of data is going to be transformative to us.”

 

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Reinventing Education To Teach Creativity And Entrepreneurship

Reinventing Education To Teach Creativity And Entrepreneurship | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
As you read this, students all over the country are sitting for state standardized exams. Schools spend up to 40% of the year on test prep, so that, shall we say, no child is left behind.

 

Schools used to be gatekeepers of knowledge, and memorization was key to success. Thus, we measured students’ abilities to regurgitate facts and formulas. Not anymore.

 

As Seth Godin writes, “If there’s information that can be recorded, widespread digital access now means that just about anyone can look it up.

 

We don’t need a human being standing next to us to lecture us on how to find the square root of a number.”

 

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Five Embodied Metaphors That Actually Foster Creative Thinking

Five Embodied Metaphors That Actually Foster Creative Thinking | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
People often describe creative thinking in the form of metaphors.

 

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Sir Ken Robinson on How Finding Your Element Changes Everything

Sir Ken Robinson on How Finding Your Element Changes Everything | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
What knowing the limits of knowledge has to do with finding the frontiers of creativity.

 

Sir Ken Robinson has previously challenged and delighted us with his vision for changing educational paradigms to better optimize a broken system for creativity.

 

In this wonderful talk from The School of Life, Robinson articulates the ethos at the heart of The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes

 

Everything — one of 7 essential books on education — and echoes, with his signature blend of wit and wisdom, many of the insights in this indispensable collection of advice on how to find your purpose and do what you love.

 

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Is there a bias against creativity?

Is there a bias against creativity? | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
Creativity has taken center stage in recent years, with a slew of books, articles and TED talks extolling the virtues of imagination and exhorting young and old to go out and exercise their creative muscle.

 

===> The future belongs to "creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers," declared author Daniel Pink in the introduction to his best-selling book "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future." <===

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How to unblock your creativity

How to unblock your creativity | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it

Are you experiencing a creative mind block?

We find that when we're stumped by a problem at work we need to read or see something that is completely random -- meaning it has nothing to do with the problem at hand.

 

For example, if you work in a business setting all day, take time to shake up your brain and look up information break dancing or how to drive a sports car or how to watercolor.

 

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5 Keys to Unlock Your Creative Motivation

5 Keys to Unlock Your Creative Motivation | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
Boosting your motivation leads to better creative output.
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Creativity and Collaboration in the Digital Age

Creativity and Collaboration in the Digital Age | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
Understanding, interpretation, and implementation of creativity.
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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?

What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like? | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
Our standardized approach to education has a siloed understanding of what it means to be creative.

Here's what schools should be teaching instead...


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Can We Teach Creative and Critical Thinking? - Education - GOOD

Can We Teach Creative and Critical Thinking? - Education - GOOD | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
What are the elements of a lesson plan to teach students how to think creatively and critically? And how do we measure what they've learned?
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You can increase your intelligence: 5 ways to maximize your cognitive potential | The Creativity Post

You can increase your intelligence: 5 ways to maximize your cognitive potential | The Creativity Post | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
Learn about the principles of fluid intelligence, and strengthen your ability to learn through daily practice and exercises.
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What Motivates Creativity? | Moments of Genius | Big Think

What Motivates Creativity? | Moments of Genius | Big Think | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it

Extrinsic motivation, in contrast, is the daily pressure we feel from outside incentives – grades, salaries, and promotions – put in place to encourage output. Here’s the question: Is creative output the product of intrinsic or extrinsic motivation? Do we need a reason to work? Or is passion enough?

 

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http://bigthink.com/insights-of-genius/what-motivates-creativity

 

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Creativity and diversity. To add value and meaning

Creativity and diversity. To add value and meaning | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it

Maybe “design” can help in understanding the importance of cultural diversity and interdisciplinarity.

 

Why?

Because, “to design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit; it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade and even perhaps to amuse.”-Paul Rand

 

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How Geniuses Think | The Creativity Post

How Geniuses Think | The Creativity Post | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
Thumbnail descriptions of the thinking strategies commonly used by creative geniuses.
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Thinking Different: Unlocking the Keys to Your Creativity

Thinking Different: Unlocking the Keys to Your Creativity | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
Drawing on both the right and the left logical side is more difficult in large part because we have not used the right side much. Most education aims at nurturing the left side so after a time the right side kind of atrophies.

 

Learning to be creative opens the door to painting or performing or pursuing a new vocation or hobby. Unfortunately, we live in a left-brained world and most people have forgotten how to exercise the right hemisphere.

 

It takes time and effort to relearn, to let go, be creative. Making mistakes, taking risks, experimenting is all part of the formula.

 

Yet there is profound hope because "we are all born creative," as creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson asserts.

 

 

Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Thinking

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Think-Different

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Think+outside+the+box

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Lateral+Thinking

 

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Drawing on both the right and the left logical side is more difficult in large part because we have not used the right side much. Most education aims at nurturing the left side so after a time the right side kind of atrophies.

 

Learning to be creative opens the door to painting or performing or pursuing a new vocation or hobby. Unfortunately, we live in a left-brained world and most people have forgotten how to exercise the right hemisphere.

 

It takes time and effort to relearn, to let go, be creative. Making mistakes, taking risks, experimenting is all part of the formula.

 

Yet there is profound hope because "we are all born creative," as creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson asserts.

 

 

Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Thinking

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Think-Different

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Think+outside+the+box

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Lateral+Thinking

 

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How Students Can Learn to Be Creative

How Students Can Learn to Be Creative | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
Albert Einstein said that “the true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.” Students are often conditioned to think in a linear manner; read the assigned course materials, develop a paper or …...
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Creativity and Human Reasoning During Decision-Making

Creativity and Human Reasoning During Decision-Making | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
"The results provide evidence that the human executive system favors creativity for compensating its limited monitoring capacity" explained Dr. Koechlin

 

In a new study, published March 27 in the online, open-access journal PLoS Biology, Anne Collins and Etienne Koechlin of Ecole Normale Supérieure and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, France, examine frontal lobe function using behavioral experiments and computational models of human decision-making.

 

===> They find that human frontal function concurrently monitors no more than three/four strategies but favors creativity, i.e. the exploration and creation of new strategies whenever no monitored strategies appear to be reliable enough. <===

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Why should Schools be interested in Creativity

Why should Schools be interested in Creativity | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
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 ...
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How Creativity Works: It's All In Your Imagination : NPR

How Creativity Works: It's All In Your Imagination : NPR | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
In his new book, Imagine, Jonah Lehrer explores the art and science of original thinking — from Shakespearean tragedies to the invention of masking tape to Nike's "Just Do It" campaign. And when you get stuck?
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How to Stay Creative at Any Age - Forbes

How to Stay Creative at Any Age - Forbes | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
How do you stay creative? (Image by AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) It’s easy to watch a hotshot young executive – or poet, painter, or filmmaker – and wonder if creativity is the province of the young.

 

But Jonah Lehrer, author of the new Imagine:

 

===> How Creativity Works <===, doesn’t buy it: “There’s nothing inevitable about a decline of creativity over time,” he said in a recent interview. Instead, any executive can take steps to ensure their ideas stay fresh, vital, and relevant.

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Khan Academy Founder Salman Khan on Liberating the Classroom for Creativity

The founder of Khan Academy (http://www.youtube.com/khanacademy), a free educational video library that features over two thousand titles and an interactive ...
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Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking | The Creativity Post

Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking | The Creativity Post | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
Aspects of creative thinking that are not usually taught.


Creative thinking is work. You must have passion and the determination to immerse yourself in the process of creating new and different ideas. Then you must have patience to persevere against all adversity. All creative geniuses work passionately hard and produce incredible numbers of ideas, most of which are bad. In fact, more bad poems were written by the major poets than by minor poets.


Thomas Edison created 3000 different ideas for lighting systems before he evaluated them for practicality and profitability. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart produced more than six hundred pieces of music, including forty-one symphonies and some forty-odd operas and masses, during his short creative life. Rembrandt produced around 650 paintings and 2,000 drawings and Picasso executed more than 20,000 works. Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets. Some were masterpieces, while others were no better than his contemporaries could have written, and some were simply bad.


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http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Creativity


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http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Sir+Ken+Robinson






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Aspects of creative thinking that are not usually taught.


Creative thinking is work. You must have passion and the determination to immerse yourself in the process of creating new and different ideas. Then you must have patience to persevere against all adversity. All creative geniuses work passionately hard and produce incredible numbers of ideas, most of which are bad. In fact, more bad poems were written by the major poets than by minor poets.


Thomas Edison created 3000 different ideas for lighting systems before he evaluated them for practicality and profitability. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart produced more than six hundred pieces of music, including forty-one symphonies and some forty-odd operas and masses, during his short creative life. Rembrandt produced around 650 paintings and 2,000 drawings and Picasso executed more than 20,000 works. Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets. Some were masterpieces, while others were no better than his contemporaries could have written, and some were simply bad.


Learn more:


http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Creativity


https://gustmees.wordpress.com/?s=creativity


http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Sir+Ken+Robinson



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22 Simple Ideas for Harnessing Creativity in the Elementary Classroom | Edutopia

22 Simple Ideas for Harnessing Creativity in the Elementary Classroom | Edutopia | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
Kindergarten inclusion teacher Trisha Riche' inspires her students -- and her readers -- to play, learn and teach outside of the box.
Jessica Marie Flynn's curator insight, October 8, 2014 7:47 PM

Love creativity in the classroom :D