Creativity and You

1. Creativity and You Yes! You!!!!!

2. Eric Hoffer • In times of change, the learners shall inherit the earth while the learned will remain beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists

3. David Cameron • And the learners who can identify opportunity and manage risk, who can innovate and create, will shape that inheritance and define the future

4. Adding value is not enough for some of our young people, we need to challenge their destinies. We are not editing life stories, we are creating new narratives

5. Improvement will not be enough Effective Ineffective Traditional Forward Looking

6. Complex problems – Simple solutions? • Complex problems – Complex solutions?

7. And the time is now! • Curriculum for Excellence is a permission • The Year of Creativity • Sir Ken Robinson/Opening Minds/OECD • Scotland’s economic strategy • “Creativity Review” • The resources – Creativity Portal, Fife Earth, Transform………..

8. The Lacuna Their white dresses swirled like froth, with skirts so wide they could take the hems in their fingertips and raise them up to make sudden wings, like butterflies, fluttering as they turned….. “Indian girls,” she spat……”A corn eater will never be more than she is”

9. The dancers were butterflies. From a hundred paces Salome could see the dirt under their fingernails, but not their wings