You know… Creativity Involves a high tolerance for failure… right.?

1. You know… Creativity Involves a high tolerance for failure… right.?

2. @#$$%^

3. So, what is creative? And… why do I care

5. The Goals: Clear idea of what creativity means…today. Understand why everyone is talking about creativity and innovation. 5 tools that will make your lessons and students more creative.

6. Creative: By Definition • Managed so as to get around legal or conventional limits • A quality that most people don't have. • Being creative means you have the ability to think up many different types of art. • What teachers call you when they don’t want to use the word dumb.

7. Test your ability to Identify creative people: Emily Noether My sister-in-law “the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.” Albert Einstein

8. Lets try again Creative is not copying what has been done, Its doing something in a new or unique way.

9. Last chance… what does creative look like? Tristson J. Ma Jun

10. Creative: • The ability to apply knowledge or understanding in a unique or original way. It’s the ability to think outside the box … not the ability to pretend There is no box. Alexa Mead

11. Why “creative” is important(your chance to leave before anyone knows you were here) • Because information- data- is now free and easy for everyone. • The ability to use, apply, maneuver, Information is a precious commodity. • Because STEM development is only powerful as a conduit for branching out

12. The data behind, the why • Auburn U. polled CEO from all of the Forbes fortune 500 company looking for the most important skills in college grads… • The Speed of change has increased log rhythmically in the last 10 years and will continue. • STEM does not make us competitive InnoCentive.com Apple 3M Nike Google Henry Ford Phil Jackson Pop Warner, IDEO Bruno Mars TED • Examples of success not from creation but creativity .

13. HowCan you add creativity and still teach within the lines? • Make More Mistakes • Channel Big Bird • Serious about play • Add your Elvis, SPAM, or footwear • Use a compass not a GPS

14. Mistakes… we should make more of them. • Bad news first… • Good news: • How to convert that

15. Share • Make them work together • Let them post/ participate/ contribute . • Teach them how to be critical and meaningful

16. Whimsy • Humor • Intentionally off task • Build relationships.

17. Play Storybird Blaberize Fakebook Spongelab Bitesize Zimmertwins Electriccompany TEDed timetoast • It’s a dirty little secret • They are out there

18. Guidelines Use a compass not a GPS and get lost. • Rubric • Projects • Freedoms just another word for… A whole lot more to learn Weather presentation BIE.org Edutopia.org 4teachers.org LearningReviews.com Cell.uindy.edu

19. I love your theory…But I am a teacher, I specialize in, NTBO No time to be overwhelmed. No matter how good your presentation… if it does not directly hit these… I cannot get interested • Common Core: • TPEP/TAESS • EALR’s • State Standards

20. TPEP/TAESS The things you will be evaluated on VERY SOON • Center instruction on high expectations • Recognize individual student learning needs • Use multiple student data points • Provide clear and intentional focus on subject matter • Communicate with parents and community. • Fostering /managing safe and positive learning environment

21. EALR’s: The things your students are evaluated on now Reading: • Understand and use different skills to read. • Understands meaning of what is read. • Read different material for a variety of purposes • Set goals and evaluates progress.

22. Common Core: Reading K-5 The things you student will be evaluated on • Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of the text • Use information gained form an illustration • Compare and contrast the most important points • Show a connection between text and project • Ask and answer questions about key details

23. What does it look like in action: • You’re a Liar and I can prove it • They get to call me a liar if they can prove it. • Storybird: • just start a story about how to start a story • Write an ABC book out of order… • Like: A is for Musk Ox • Fakebook • What would Artemas Fowl and Tinker bell talk about • Blabberize It these hats could talk.

24. Micro fiction: Inference: Visualization: • Six word stories • A story in 5 pictures • 50 word stories.

25. Dude, your pants are burning. • Thomas Jefferson was a pirate fighter. • Jefferson played the flute. • He died with his friend and rival John Adams, on the 4th of July, 1826. • He invented the first swivel desk chair.

27. Fracture your own fairytale

28. 6 words… and lots of inference: He loved her. She chose him Used vice-grip; now in hot water. Hey Sugar look?...No, it’s gas. Time machine…check. Mistake list…check. I leave. Dog panics. Furniture shopping. For sale; baby shoes, never worn.

29. Just 50 words… They had never been apart in five years. Not one day. Now there was a new woman in his life. Could she handle her Robby? Those moods? Saying goodbye would be difficult. No tears, Rachel thought. She passed his hand to the teacher on his first school day. Tears flowed. Myers Kay Cleary is a 16 year old high school student currently in the process of obtaining qualifications for college and the future, while slowly gaining hope regarding her current life. When not writing stories consisting of precisely 50 words she enjoys writing brief biographies about herself (and reading).

30. All of this is online at the NCCE page • And at my website: Oldbrainteacher.org