Rochester Creativity Part ONE

1. Nurturing(Success(and( Crea0ve(Produc0vity(in(a(Digital(Age March&30,&2012 Dr.&Angela&Housand University&of&North&Carolina&Wilmington Dr.&Brian&Housand East&Carolina&University

2. CREATIVE PRODUCTIVITY IN A DIGITAL AGE boces2012.weebly.com

4. 8:45 Why Creativity Matters 9:00 Connecting to the Common Core 9:30 Technology + Creativity 9:45 Break 10:00 Creating Your Digital Footprint 10:30 Ten Tools for Creativity 11:30 LUNCH 12:30 Profiles of Creative Productivity 1:00 Constructing an Outlet 2:30 Making a Plan

5. Why Creativity Matters

7. Benjamin Bloom Critical Thinking

8. E. Paul Torrance Creativity

9. Julian Stanley advanced content

10. Schoolhouse Ability Creative Productivity

11. Creative Productivity Above Average Ability Creativity Task Commitment

13. p21.org

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16. “The Nation that dramatically and boldly led the world into the age of technology is failing to provide its own children with the intellectual tools needed for the 21st century.”

17. BUT this is a PRECARIOUS Advantage

18. The world is changing FAST. Technological KNOW-HOW is spreading throughout the world; Along with the knowledge that such SKILLS and SOPHISTICATION are the basic CAPITAL of tomorrow’s society.

19. Our children could be STRAGGLERS in a world of technology.

20. AMERICA MUST NOT B E C O M E AN INDUSTRIAL DINOSAUR

21. W E M U S T N O T provide our children a 1960s education for a21st CenturyWORLD.

22. SepTEMBER 12 1983

23. www.p21.org Learning and Innovation Skills Creativity and Innovation Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Communication and Collaboration

24. & Sir Ken Robinson & &We&are&educaEng&people& out&of&their&creaEvity.& &CreaEvity&is&as&important&in& educaEon&as&literacy.&

25. Rather than running the risk of having our students become W A L K I N G ENCYCLOPEDIAS we need to TEACH them how to THINK CREATIVELY. (Sternberg,&2006)

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31. If your students can the answer, then you may be asking the wrong question.

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33. Pianos NOT Stereos (Resnick, 1996)

34. Connecting to the Common Core

35. The Standards do not define the nature of advanced work for students who meet the Standards prior to the end of high school. For those students, advanced work in such areas as literature, composition, language, and journalism should be available. This work should provide the next logical step up from the college and career readiness baseline established here.

36. Students who are College and Career Ready.... ✓Demonstrate Independence ✓Build Strong Content Knowledge ✓Respond to Varying Demands of Audience, Task, Purpose, and Discipline ✓Comprehend as well as critique ✓Value Evidence ✓Use Technology and Digital Media Strategically and Capably ✓Come to Understand Other Perspectives and Cultures

37. Research to Build and Present Knowledge Writing Anchor #7: Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.

38. The whole process of education should thus be conceived as the process of learning to think through the solution of real problems. -- John Dewey, 1938

39. Real World Problems Academic Rigor Technology Integration www.ecugifted.com

40. Interest and Rigor Lead To Creative Productivity ?“We need students to get more deeply interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know, to have projects that they can get excited about and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated to find things out on their own.”

41. Writing Anchor #6: Production and Distribution of Writing Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.

42. Production and Distribution of Writing With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. K 1 2 With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.

43. Production and Distribution of Writing 3 4 5 With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others. With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of one page in a single sitting. With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of two pages in a single sitting.

44. Production and Distribution of Writing Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting. 6 7 8 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and link to and cite sources as well as to interact and collaborate with others, including linking to and citing sources. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate with others.

45. Production and Distribution of Writing Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically. 9 10 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information. 11 12