Creativity

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 * Objectives: **
 * Students will define creativity.
 * Students will assess their own creativity.
 * Students will explore characteristics and conditions commonly associated with creativity.
 * Students will identify and examine examples of key elements of the creative process.
 * Students will explore the relationship between creativity and technology.
 * Students will articulate the relationships between cultural values, 21st Century skills, and creativity.

=** Guiding Questions: **=


 * Learning as a Creative Process **
 * What do we mean by creativity? (Individually, Professionally, Societally, Culturally)?
 * How is individual creativity commonly assessed and how does that differ from how professional domains assess it?
 * Why is it easier to be creative in some settings than in others? What are some of the conditions that seem to foster creativity?
 * In what ways is creativity supported/constrained by cultural values?
 * What are some of the elements of the creative process (according to research) and how do they align with key principles of SLA?
 * Why is creativity such a fundamental element of learning (especially in the 21st Century)?
 * How does technology support and constrain creativity?
 * How can teachers use key concepts and principles of creativity to design more compelling language learning environments and experiences?

=Agenda=


 * ACTIVITY 1:** What is creativity?




 * ACTIVITY 2: ** How is individual creativity commonly assessed and how does that differ from how professional domains assess it? Are you creative?

[|Creativity Test] (Associative Flexibility) [|School of Art & Design Creativity Test] (General Page) ([|Creative Uses of the Test]) [|How Far Does Your Creativity Go? (Os)] [|How Far Does Your Creativity Go? (Xs)] [|How Creative Are You?] (Diamonds) [|2-minute Creativity Test] (5-question self-assessment - one for individuals and one for organizations) [|Art Institute of Vancouver's Right/Left-brain Creativity Test](Reports results in a useful format with excellent explanations) [|Creax Creativity Test] (Provides a spiderweb results on 8 different metrics)

[|Self-scoring Creativity Test] (Must be ordered online: Originality, Fluency, Flexibility, Elaboration)


 * ACTIVITY 3: ** Why is it easier to be creative in some settings than in others? What are some of the conditions that seem to foster creativity?

[|Flowers are Red] (Poem)

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**What is Creativity?** View more PowerPoint from David E. Goldberg


 * ACTIVITY 4: ** What are some of the elements of the creative process (and how do they align with key principles of SLA)?

Example of creativity

Principles of Graphic Design (Ppt)

Visual Cognition & Graphic Design Advertising Activity





Homework: Hofstadter, Douglas. [|Variations on a theme as the crux of creativity].

MLC2006 - Creativity

**ACTIVITY 5: What are some of the conditions that support creativity?**

[|The Genius of "One Percenters" is Their Amazing Command of the Obvious]


 * ACTIVITY 6: Why is creativity such a fundamental element of learning?**


 * ACTIVITY 7: ** How does technology support and constrain creativity?

Creativity & Technology
 * Conceptual Transfer
 * Diffusion of Innovations
 * Distributed Cognition
 * Flow
 * Gamification
 * Motivation
 * Recontextualization
 * Scaffolding
 * Technology Adoption
 * Transformative Learning
 * Transliteracy

**ACTIVITY 8:** How can teachers use key concepts and principles of creativity to design more compelling language learning environments and experiences?


 * **[|Common Core]**
 * **[|21st Century Skills Map (ACTFL)] (Wiki)**
 * **[|21st Century Partnership]**