Creativity Resources

Ways to facilitate student creativity

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/education/school-educator-programs/learning-through-art/research-studies/facilitating-creativity-study

Tools for creating ideas

http://creatingminds.org/tools/tools_ideation.htm

-Milan



Lehrer, author of How We Choose, has a new book coming out in March '12,  Imagine How Creativity Works

Jonah Lehrer's The Aha moment!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNVEZ5Whmk8
Jessica

Review columnists and contributors discuss  Where does innovation come from?  At 29:40 brainstorming is discussed.

http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2011/12/01/where-does-innovation-come-from-2/?KEYWORDS=creativity
Jessica




Ontario College of Art and Design - What creativity can do.


Posted by Carl


Sir Ken Robinson:  Do Schools Kill Creativity?

Posted by Carl



Creativity Readings and Resources

PLEASE: Post at least two readings or resources (article, blog, video, etc) for everyone to read. Everyone agrees to review all of the materials posted and come in with at least five questions or discussion topics from the materials to facilitate a discussion when we have another hour during a PACT day.  Put your name on your materials so we know who posts whatever.

ie:
Daniel Pink : A Whole New Mind  (book in the library)          Discussion guide for Educators pdf
(Rebecca)

RSA Animate: Sir Ken Robinson  - Do Schools Kill Creativity
(example from Sarah)

Ten Creativity Killers
(Rebecca)

Article about Creativity scores falling in the US asking why?
(Rebecca)


Edutopia article by Jim Moulton "It's Time to get Serious about Creativity in the Classroom"
(Sarah)


Huffington Post article by Brian Cohen "Teaching Creativity: The answers aren't in the back of the book"
(Sarah)


Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) — Techniques on guiding students' critical looking skills of artwork. This practice, although simple, offers a lot of learning if done right.
http://www.vtshome.org/
(Daniel)


Trends to be aware of: Proposed 100% elimination of elementary arts in LA schools — The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is the second largest school district in the U.S. If this passes, will the rest of the country soon follow?
http://www.artsforla.org/news/action-alert-lausd-plans-eliminate-100-elementary-arts-education-updated
(Daniel)


10 Problem Solving Quotes

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year."
— John Foster Dulles
Former Secretary of State


"In times like these it is good to remember that there have always been times like these."
— Paul Harvey
Broadcaster


"The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former."
— Alfred Armand Montapert
Author


"One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment . . . ; If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along."
— Franklin D.Roosevelt
counseling Frances Perkins


"Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment—undermining old means of control, opening up old closets of secrecy, reducing the relevance of ownership, early arrival, and location—should seem less a litany of problems than an agenda for action. Reaching for a way to describe the entrepreneurial energy of his fabled editor Harold Ross, James Thurber said: 'He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.' That's the appropriate posture for a knowledge executive."
— Harlan Cleveland


"I would rather be surrounded by smart people than have a huge budget. Smart people will get you there faster."
— former McKinsey associate
as quoted in The McKinsey Way by Ethan Rasiel


"Never try to solve all the problems at once — make them line up for you one-by-one.
— Richard Sloma


"Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatver follies I have witnessed in public and private life, have been the consequences of action without thought."
— Bernard Baruch


"Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous."
— Harvey G. Cox


"Erroneous assumptions can be disastrous."
— Peter Drucker


(Greg Vikse)

 Top 10 Creativity Quotes
by MARELISA · 28 COMMENTS
Description: reativity quotesThis is the second post ofCreativity Extravaganza Weekat “Abundance Blog at Marelisa Online”.  Here are 75 creativity quotes:
1. “There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.” — Edward de Bono
2. “There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.”  — Martha Graham
3. “Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.” — Theodore Levitt
4. “A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.”  — Charles Brower
5. “When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity.” –  Linda Naiman
6. “The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.” — Alan Alda
7. “It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.” — Edward de Bono
8. “A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. “Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.” — William James
Description: reativity quotes10. “The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.” — Carl Ally


(Greg Vikse)


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