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# waukthetalk. Creativity & Innovation in the Classroom. A Continuation of Thinking and Work at Walnut Hills Elementary November 6, 2013. As long as you be breathin ’…. Learning Targets.
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#waukthetalk Creativity & Innovation in the Classroom A Continuation of Thinking and Work at Walnut Hills Elementary November 6, 2013
Learning Targets • Participants will understand the 21st Century Universal Constructs and how they contribute to innovative learning. • Participants will examine the environments that encourage creative thinking and innovative work within the classroom. • Participants will explore technology and arts integration as tools for working in the 21st Century. • Participants will discover inquiry-based frameworks, strategies, and activities.
OUR VEHICLE FOR LEARNING TOPIC OF STUDY Creativity & Innovation • Participants will discover inquiry-based frameworks, strategies, and activities.
Googledoc: Creativity and Innovation in the Classroom • Visual Surroundings • Connection Checkpoints (lots of K-1 examples) • Our Learning Map
INQUIRY Guiding Questions: What habits exist in an innovative classroom? What role does inquiry play in nurturing creativity and innovation? How does an inquiring mindset get us to “flow”? OUR LEARNING MAP invites Creative and Innovative habits of thinking and working Curiosity FLOW by embracing for the purpose of • Increase motivation • Increase engagement • Increase happiness • Increase reflection • Increase ownership • Increase inspiration • Increase connectedness • Immersion • Questions • Wonder • Play • Passion by encouraging through fueling Collab & Comm Risk Taking Problem Seeking • Authentic purpose/audience • Removing walls of school • Organic dialogue • Synthesis • Arts and technology • Entrepreneurial thinking • Failure • Perseverance • Embracing ambiguity • Perspective • Critical thinking • Flexibility • Dissonance
“If there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.” Penn Jillette
Some of my first wonderings… • What are my passions? Do I even acknowledge them or intentionally practice them? • Why is “play” so hard for me? Is it related to self-conciousness? • What does it feel like to be deeply engaged in the creative process? • Why do “creative” people generally seem more happy to me? Why was I uncontainably happy after our studio recording? • Can you practice creativity? Get better at it? • Are creativity and innovation the same thing? Different? Why? How? • What are the habits of creative thinking? • What environments spark creativity? • Why do I often feel more creative in my social life than in my work life? How can I change that? • How will we know if our mission/vision is moving us forward? • What do or would our students say about our mission/vision?
What have been some of your first wonderings? 3.5.10 (modified)
How do I get all of my students to take creative risks? What about kids who always want to be right? When did I lose my fearlessness? How do I embrace creativity but still cover what I need to? How do I bring out more creativity in myself?
Connection Checkpoint • Content Snapshots • Content Storytelling • Wonder Strategies • Memory Making • Thinking Prompts • Model Curiosity
Content Storytelling… Trees in my Backyard Me and Ben
Resources… K-2 3-5/R.A.
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” -Abe Lincoln
My new questions… • When do our roadblocks to creativity begin? • How can I/we ignite positive action? • Do teachers describe themselves as innovators? If we don’t… Why don’t we? • If we have lost our creativity…how do we get it back? • How can I help teachers take back their creativity? • Can we be expected to bring out creativity and innovation in our students if our own creative selves are dormant? • Could we re-train ourselves to think more creatively? • Would we see our students naturally become creative as a result of teachers nuturing their own habits of creativity? • How would we do that? • Who could we learn from? Who could teach us to bring habits of innovation into the field of education?
What could we, as educators, learn about creativity and innovation from the DSM Arts community?
Who’s in the room? • Read the profile of your artist. • Try out the “party perspective” strategy with your table group. • Record on individual sheets.
Connection Checkpoint • Perspective Parties • Be the… • Value Lines • Morning Meeting • Written Conversations • Write Arounds • Insider/Outsider Views
“There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is ‘Where am I going?’ and the second is ‘Who will go with me?’” ~ Howard Thurman
Bradley Seidenfeld • Former teacher • Musician • Comic Performer • Photographer • Storyteller • CEO, Oceanwide Studios
A glimpse of Bradley’s work… http://vimeo.com/76822971
Emma Peterson • 22-years old • Entrepreneur • CEO, Tikly • Tikly was named one of the top five startups to watch by CNBC & has been featured as an exciting, new ticketing alternative by Pollstar, The Owl Mag, Music Connection Magazine and The Washington Post.
Joe McGuire • Stay-at-home dad • Musician • Artist-Welder “I just don’t feel right unless I am making something.”
Jerry Lorenson • Singer/Songwriter (Towncrier) • Musician-piano • Poet/Writer • B.A Social Psychology • M.A. Sociology • Teaching Assistant • Currently working on PhD at Iowa State
Jerry Lorenson (DMU Project) “Because you’re the best you when you feel at home.”
Connection Checkpoint • Invite experts to the classroom • Field Research • Quotes from experts/mentors • Create the venue • Skype • Blog/Email • Social Media
“When Teachers Meet Artists…” alilocker.com @ali_locker #waukthetalk
