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Developing Creativity in Every Learner. Doug Johnson www.doug-johnson.com AASL 13 November 15, 2013. After. Before. http:// dougjohnson.wikispaces.com. todaysmeet.com/create13. May 1990. Where are we going?. Why is it imperative we take developing creativity seriously?
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Developing Creativity in Every Learner Doug Johnson www.doug-johnson.com AASL 13November 15, 2013
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Where are we going? • Why is it imperative we take developing creativity seriously? • Concerns and myths about creativity • 10 ways to encourage creativity in every assignment • Four practice lessons
Where are we going? • Why is it imperative we take developing creativity seriously? • Concerns and myths about creativity • 10 ways to encourage creativity in every assignment
Can someone overseas do it cheaper? Can a computer do it faster? Am I offering something that satisfies the nonmaterial, transcendent desires of an abundant age? A Whole New Mind - D. Pink Michael Graves
Implications? Visit with your neighbor
...the workers hurt most were those who had, with effort, acquired valuable skills — only to find those skills suddenly devalued.
How do today’s kids’ lives, habits, and tastes differ from yours?
Love technology Allergic to sunlight Multitaskers Always connected Social learners Need fast responses ADD Terrible taste in clothes and music
Purpose Impact Relevance Problems Creativity Activity Entertainment of others Engagement of learner
Planning Scripting Shooting Problem-solving Editing
Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he will sit in the boat and drink beer all day.
Show a kid a movie, you have entertained her for an hour. Give a kid a camera, you’ll engage her for a lifetime.
Not if a person is intelligent,but how a person is intelligent. Not if a child is creative,but how a child is creative.
Bloom’sTaxonomy http://www.techlearning.com/article/8670
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. ISTE NETS
1.2.3 Demonstrate creativity by using multiple resources and formats. 4.1.8 Use creative and artistic formats to express personal learning. AASL Standards for 21stCentury Learners
We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking we used when we created them. Einstein
Creativity crisis • …. creativity scores had been steadily rising, just like IQ scores, until 1990. • Since then, creativity scores have consistently inched downward. “It’s very clear, and the decrease is very significant. It is the scores of younger children in America -from kindergarten through sixth grade - for whom the decline is “most serious.” Merryman and Bronson, Newsweek, July 2010
Where are we going? • Why is it imperative we take developing creativity seriously? • Concerns and myths about creativity • 10 ways to encourage creativity in every assignment
Concern #1 Creativity isn't always about art.
Creativity in…. Storytelling Movement Teaching Music Politics Mechanics Inventing Motivating Leading Excuse making Mathematics Empathy Humor Visual
Johnson’s Multiple Creative Abilities • Writing/Presenting/Storytelling • Numeric problem-solving • Graphic artistic (drawing, painting, sculpting, photography, designing) • Athletic/movement (Sports, dance) • Musically artistic • Humor
Johnson’s Multiple Creative Abilities • Team-building • Problem-solving • Inventing • Leading • Organizing • Motivating/inspiring?
Concern #2 Creativity must be accompanied by craft and discipline.
It’s OK to have parameters • Your slide show must have … • Your essay must contain a thesis statement… • You must have at least X examples • Your budget may not exceed $X • You must use the scientific method
Concern #3 The world is frightened by creativity.
Concern #4 If we ask students to demonstrate creativity or innovation, we need some tools to determine whether they have done so.
Assessment of creativity • Define creativity
Over 100 definitions Creativity refers to the phenomenon whereby a person creates something new that has some kind of value. Wikipedia New Value
Assessment of creativity • Define creativity • Review different assessment tools • Seek multiple sources of data Treffinger, 2002