Creativity does not come in Aha moments but is the result of a process involving feedback and modified refined attempt. Conditions that affect creativity :
– Playfulness: be in a happy state of mind
– Time: cannot rush creative thinking, ideas need time to incubate
– Exploration: try things, go for quantity
– Failure: don’t be afraid of it, learn from it, cannot succeed unless you first fail
– Variety: lots and lots of it
– Freedom autonomy choice
– A real challenge
– Think with your hands, move
– Clear understandings of constraints
– Knowledge, skills, mastery, expertise
– Encouragement
Attitude:
Personal passion, discipline and commitment
Tools:
Explore the web, PLN, Try something new, Divergent thinking and Design tools
Best creative tools for divergent thinking start with a blank page.
Teaching:
Model openness, encourage failure
Open language – could, might, possible
Methods – mashups, tinkering, re-edit, mimic
Experience – lots of different ideas and situations
Assessment – can it be measured
2 replies on “ISTE 2012 #02 – Creativity”
This is much more useful than the tweet that got me so riled up, riled up enough to write a blog post about it. Thanks for the added information, and the more-nuanced explanation of what was said.
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