Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Let's Play School Creativity Scavenger Hunt, Shall We?
In my eMail In-Box this morning, an invitation to:
I skimmed through all of the session descriptions ( http://www.ascd.org/conferences/conference-on-educational-leadership/CEL-session-information.aspx ) and came across a good many 'Buzz Phrases' of the moment. There's plenty of 'Equity', 'Whole Child', 'Empathy and Emotion' (SEL), 'Teacher Burnout', 'Community-Based School Culture', etc. etc...
But where's the CREATIVITY???
Did I miss it?
Help me out here, if you find it please leave a comment below!
http://www.ascd.org/conferences/conference-on-educational-leadership/CEL-session-information.aspx
I skimmed through all of the session descriptions ( http://www.ascd.org/conferences/conference-on-educational-leadership/CEL-session-information.aspx ) and came across a good many 'Buzz Phrases' of the moment. There's plenty of 'Equity', 'Whole Child', 'Empathy and Emotion' (SEL), 'Teacher Burnout', 'Community-Based School Culture', etc. etc...
But where's the CREATIVITY???
Did I miss it?
Help me out here, if you find it please leave a comment below!
http://www.ascd.org/conferences/conference-on-educational-leadership/CEL-session-information.aspx
"How can educators foster inventiveness?"
Found in ASCD Smart Brief - July 9, 2018
How can educators foster inventiveness?
"Educators should do more to foster students' inventiveness, asserts educational technologist Kathy Schrock. During the recent International Society for Technology in Education conference, she shared multiple tools and strategies to support student creativity, including mapping tools and social media. eSchool News (7/9)" Link to the original article, below (from eSchool News)...
https://www.eschoolnews.com/2018/07/09/16-tools-to-promote-inventiveness-in-the-classroom/?all
There are many strategies and tools aligned to those seven steps that educators can use to encourage inventiveness and design thinking in schools. To access Schrock’s extensive inventiveness resources, click here.
Empathize (including polling tools, social media, and experts):
1. Poll Everywhere
2. Google Forms
Define:
3. Wufoo
4. Airtable
Ideate (including mapping tools, real-time collaboration tools, and curation tools):
5. Popplet
6. Stormboard
7. Feedly
Prototype:
8. Padlet
9. Animation Desk
10. Google Slides
Test:
11. Twitter
12. Polling tools
Implement:
13. Adobe Spark tools
14. Weebly
Reflect:
15. Blogger
16. Evernote..."
How can educators foster inventiveness?
"Educators should do more to foster students' inventiveness, asserts educational technologist Kathy Schrock. During the recent International Society for Technology in Education conference, she shared multiple tools and strategies to support student creativity, including mapping tools and social media. eSchool News (7/9)" Link to the original article, below (from eSchool News)...
https://www.eschoolnews.com/2018/07/09/16-tools-to-promote-inventiveness-in-the-classroom/?all
"16 tools to promote inventiveness in the classroom
By Laura Ascione, Managing Editor, Content Services, @eSN_Laura
July 9th, 2018
Inventiveness is a critical component of innovation--here's
how to use it in the classroom
Inventiveness–the bridge between inventions and
innovations–gives students license to use their creative imagination. And
today’s classrooms need more of it.
During ISTE 2018, educational technologist Kathy Schrock presented a variety of tools and strategies to help boost inventiveness in the classroom.
Invention is the creation of a product or the introduction of a process for the first time, while innovation occurs if someone improves on an existing product or process. The link between those two, Schrock said, is inventiveness–the ability to brainstorm, to be flexible, to elaborate, and to see original ideas come to fruition.
A few questions can pinpoint whether a classroom is conducive to creativity and inventiveness:
1. The classroom’s physical environment offers flexible resources
2. The classroom’s learning climate has students actively participating in discussions, allows for collaboration, and values different points of view
3. Students are engaged, seek different viewpoints, take risks, reflect on learning, and have time to think creatively and develop ideas
“Something might need to be done in the classroom to help students,” Schrock said. Educators might consider “giving students freedom to create assessments and allowing varying formats, setting aside creativity time, using technology to broaden assignments, or using unconventional learning methods such as having students create a TED Talk to review a chapter in a textbook.”
Approaches like these encourage students to use empathy, collaboration, and creative imagination skills, she added.
For instance, teachers could:
During ISTE 2018, educational technologist Kathy Schrock presented a variety of tools and strategies to help boost inventiveness in the classroom.
Invention is the creation of a product or the introduction of a process for the first time, while innovation occurs if someone improves on an existing product or process. The link between those two, Schrock said, is inventiveness–the ability to brainstorm, to be flexible, to elaborate, and to see original ideas come to fruition.
A few questions can pinpoint whether a classroom is conducive to creativity and inventiveness:
1. The classroom’s physical environment offers flexible resources
2. The classroom’s learning climate has students actively participating in discussions, allows for collaboration, and values different points of view
3. Students are engaged, seek different viewpoints, take risks, reflect on learning, and have time to think creatively and develop ideas
“Something might need to be done in the classroom to help students,” Schrock said. Educators might consider “giving students freedom to create assessments and allowing varying formats, setting aside creativity time, using technology to broaden assignments, or using unconventional learning methods such as having students create a TED Talk to review a chapter in a textbook.”
Approaches like these encourage students to use empathy, collaboration, and creative imagination skills, she added.
For instance, teachers could:
Tell students stories about situations that accidentally led
to new products such as the Slinky or the Post-It Note. Talking about
interesting failures or epic fails, such as Bic for Her pens, can get students
engaged and talking about all kinds of ideas.
Ask students to write headlines for a news article focusing
on inventions in the year 2050 and see what they can imagine.
Pick a well-known object or tool and ask students how they
might improve it or change it for the better.
Among Schrock’s many resources is this Tallyfy guide
to design thinking, which helps students think about innovation as it relates
to helping different consumer audiences with real-world problems. Educators can
use it to guide students through the design thinking process. The six steps in
the process focus on understanding, exploring, and materializing: Empathize, define,
ideate, prototype, test, and implement. Schrock suggested adding a seventh step
for reflection.There are many strategies and tools aligned to those seven steps that educators can use to encourage inventiveness and design thinking in schools. To access Schrock’s extensive inventiveness resources, click here.
Empathize (including polling tools, social media, and experts):
1. Poll Everywhere
2. Google Forms
Define:
3. Wufoo
4. Airtable
Ideate (including mapping tools, real-time collaboration tools, and curation tools):
5. Popplet
6. Stormboard
7. Feedly
Prototype:
8. Padlet
9. Animation Desk
10. Google Slides
Test:
11. Twitter
12. Polling tools
Implement:
13. Adobe Spark tools
14. Weebly
Reflect:
15. Blogger
16. Evernote..."
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