Creativity

Creativity and imagination are defined by Sir Ken Robinson as,

//"Imagination is not the same as creativity. Creativity takes the process of imagination to another level. My definition of creativity is “the process of having original ideas that have value.” Imagination can be entirely internal. You could be imaginative all day long without anyone noticing. But you never say that someone was creative if that person never did anything. To be creative you actually have to do something. It involves putting your imagination to work to make something new, to come up with new solutions to problems, even to think of new problems or questions.// //You can think of creativity as applied imagination."// Quoted from The Element, Sir Ken Robinson

Original ideas that have value! What does that mean for educators working with K-12 students? How do we help them learn to "build original ideas that have value?"

This page of the wikispace will be devoted to resources, ideas and materials that help us come to grips with this idea.




 * ARTICLES **

How to Kill Creativity, Teresa Amabile

[|GroupThink,] New Yorker Article on creativity




 * BOOKS **

[|How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day], by Michael J. Gelb [|The Element], by Sir Ken Robinson [|Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative], by Sir Ken Robinson [|Innovators' DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators], by Jeff Dyer and Hall Gregersen [|Creating Innovators], by Tony Wagner


 * WEBSITES **

[|Sir Ken Robinson] [|Innovators DNA] [|Project Zero], a great site to see what they are doing in researching thinking, creativity, and more.


 * VIDEOS **

Do Schools Kill Creativity? Sir Ken Robinson at TED media type="youtube" key="iG9CE55wbtY" height="315" width="420"


 * OTHER RESOURCES **

This is the document for the activity we will do on Day 3 of the institute in the morning.


 * THINKING, EXERCISE LOOKING AT THE THINKING PROCESS, DAY 3 OF WORKSHOP **