As Robert Harris thinks: education and society kills creativity. Rules, parameters and stereotypes limit and frustrate creative processes. Our narrow minded ideas, institutional structures, job requirements, and so on frustrate our natural search for new thoughts and solutions. What do we do to recover it?
Learning from children?
Listening to music and relaxing?
Socializing with creative people?
Can we respect social parameters, behave as we are supposed to, follow rules...and still be creative?
Apologies for any missed links, I tried to keep some minutes during the Live session, feel free to reply with any missed contributions.
Dave Cormier has called for greater participation as a group creating artifacts from this course to catalog our discussions/thoughts here: http://edfutures.com/artifact/futures-thinking
Najmeh shared a link "this discussion reminds me of Matt Ratto's work on critical making: http://criticalmaking.com/ "
Mark Gbur - Six Hats of Thinking - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Thinking_Hats - Is a method for conducting meetings where only one "train of thought" is permitted at one time. Critical Judgement is the "Black Hat" while "Green Hat" is for New Ideas
Want to meet in person with other course participants? We will be hosting a small face-to-face conference on Future(s) in Education on May 21, 2010, in Charlottetown, PEI. Details are still pending, but an overview is available here http://edfutures.com/blogs/gsiemens/announcing-futures-education-conference.
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After a busy week of introducing futures thinking, we'll now direct our attention to consideration of creative and critical thinking.
Creativity is the generation of a new or novel idea, often in the service of solving an existing challenge.
Criticality, in contrast, is to question (interrogate) deeply whether the information we encounter, and the methods we use to interact with it, can be trusted.
/Why this change?/
We will return to futures thinking in week four, but we need to create a bit of a foundation in creative and innovative thinking.
Before we can begin to apply futures thinking and scenario generation, we need a better grasp of creative and critical thinking.
In week three, we'll focus on issues of bias, errors, and decision making. In combination with week 2, this will form a basis of awareness of our own thinking as we begin to delve more deeply into futures thinking.
2. Stop by our forums for week 2 and list your best creative and critical thinking resources. Share an example where you (or your organization) were able to use either/both to address or solve a challenge. Why was creativity (or criticality) needed? What worked? What didn't?
3 comments so far:
Laura Herrera says: How to recover creativity?
As Robert Harris thinks: education and society kills creativity. Rules, parameters and stereotypes limit and frustrate creative processes. Our narrow minded ideas, institutional structures, job requirements, and so on frustrate our natural search for new thoughts and solutions. What do we do to recover it?
Learning from children?
Listening to music and relaxing?
Socializing with creative people?
Can we respect social parameters, behave as we are supposed to, follow rules...and still be creative?
markgbur says: Attempt to Capture Links from Eluminate Session #2
Apologies for any missed links, I tried to keep some minutes during the Live session, feel free to reply with any missed contributions.
Dave Cormier has called for greater participation as a group creating artifacts from this course to catalog our discussions/thoughts here: http://edfutures.com/artifact/futures-thinking
Jackie Gerstein posted a link to the Horizon report: http://horizon.wiki.nmc.org/
George Siemens dropped a link for - Cognitive Edge: http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2010/03/irahs2010.php
Dave Cormier created a new forum for collaboration: http://edfutures.com/forums/meta-discussion/offers-collaboration
Connectirmeli: "(esp. slides 22, 26) affected me a lot last week: capacity i.s.o. skills / competence" http://www.downes.ca/presentation/244
George Siemens introduced this link for reading - Introduction to Creative Thinking, Pt 1: Introduction to Creative Thinking, Pt 1: http://www.virtualsalt.com/crebook1.htm - Pt 2: http://www.virtualsalt.com/crebook2.htm
Najmeh shared a link "this discussion reminds me of Matt Ratto's work on critical making: http://criticalmaking.com/ "
Mark Gbur - Six Hats of Thinking - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Thinking_Hats - Is a method for conducting meetings where only one "train of thought" is permitted at one time. Critical Judgement is the "Black Hat" while "Green Hat" is for New Ideas
Josh Lange: Anna Craft in the UK has some excellent articles on the most recent creativity research available here: http://education.exeter.ac.uk/staff_details.php?user=arc210&page=publica...
George Siemens shared - Techniques for Creative Thinking - http://members.optusnet.com.au/charles57/Creative/Techniques/index.html
Dallas McPheeters- Book on both words as one process: http://www.criticalthinking.org/resources/tgs/critical-and-creative-thin...
Joana Silva: http://marisaconstantinides.edublogs.org/2010/04/13/the-art-of-being-cre...
Dallas McPheeters - Sir Kenneth Robinson says schools kill creativity: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creati...
Tom Haymes: http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Whack-Pack-Roger-Oech/dp/0880793589/ref=s...
Dallas McPheeters - Socratic Circles: http://www.amazon.com/Socratic-Circles-Fostering-Critical-Creative/dp/15...
markgbur says: WEEK 2: CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE THINKING (from email)
Pasted Below is the Week 2 overview email:
Want to meet in person with other course participants? We will be hosting a small face-to-face conference on Future(s) in Education on May 21, 2010, in Charlottetown, PEI. Details are still pending, but an overview is available here
http://edfutures.com/blogs/gsiemens/announcing-futures-education-conference.
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After a busy week of introducing futures thinking, we'll now direct our attention to consideration of creative and critical thinking.
Creativity is the generation of a new or novel idea, often in the service of solving an existing challenge.
Criticality, in contrast, is to question (interrogate) deeply whether the information we encounter, and the methods we use to interact with it, can be trusted.
/Why this change?/
We will return to futures thinking in week four, but we need to create a bit of a foundation in creative and innovative thinking.
Before we can begin to apply futures thinking and scenario generation, we need a better grasp of creative and critical thinking.
In week three, we'll focus on issues of bias, errors, and decision making. In combination with week 2, this will form a basis of awareness of our own thinking as we begin to delve more deeply into futures thinking.
/Readings:///
Introduction to Creative Thinking, Pt 1
http://www.virtualsalt.com/crebook1.htm
Introduction to Creative Thinking, Pt 2
http://www.virtualsalt.com/crebook2.htm
Techniques for creativity
http://members.optusnet.com.au/charles57/Creative/Techniques/index.html
Critical thinking
http://www.criticalthinking.org/aboutCT/define_critical_thinking.cfm
This week:
1. Our weekly live session will be held here in Elluminate
https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008104&password=M.10C4E3970050B77...
on Tuesday at 2 pm EST (time zone conversions
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=4&day=27&year....
2. Stop by our forums for week 2 and list your best creative and critical thinking resources. Share an example where you (or your organization) were able to use either/both to address or solve a challenge. Why was creativity (or criticality) needed? What worked? What didn't?
3. Continue interacting with other participants on the week one trend identification thread http://edfutures.com/forums/week-1-trends-and-drivers-futures-education/...