Creativity for All

Understanding the power o creativity – helps students to prepare for 21st centre, develop skills they need to succeed.

Helps educators learn what creativity is, why it is important, how to develop creativity in their students across subjects and grade levels.

Tips on how to cultivate and assess creativity, how Adobe’s tools can help, how to stay connected to Adobe’s Creative Educator community.

Hear from expert educators.

Draws on a number of other teaching resources and professional learning materials.

Creativity – essential 21st century skill.

Let the learner see they have creativity.

Helps students to innovate.

Creativity – curiosity.

So many ways to define it – novel, innovative.

New creative industries – as important as literacy itseelf.

Opportunity.

WEF – in demand skill required by employers.

Opportunities for kids to be creative.

Give guidance and feedback.

Communication, Collaboration, Process, Critical thinking, ?

Constant encouragement needed.

Learning outcomes – content – analytical, practical, creative – more effective than other forms of instruction.

Better predictor of lifetime achievement.

definition of creativity in the classroom

how it relates to communication, collaboration, critical thinking.

Why it’s important to intentionally teach creativity to students.

Creativity goes far beyond artistic expression.

Enhances important skills like critical thinking, communication, collaboration.

Skill – enhances the learning of all other skills.

Lots of different applications – real world problems.

Creative and critical thinking – complement each other.

Creative and communication – new ways to communicate.

Creative approaches – deepen learning

More engaged, more adaptable, more able to solve problems.

Deeper learning – happens when we engage with a problem or idea.

Bloom’s taxonomy.

Processes – design, engineering, artistic creative processes.

As educators, role to play in developing creative skills and attitudes.

Teaching for creativity vs creative teaching

Teaching -> developing creativity in our students

Creative teaching – teaching in a creative way.

Who is doing the creative way?

Three effective teaching strategies – identifying the problem that requires a creative solution, especially the audience.

Thirdly – brainstorming and collaborating with others.

Multiple solutions to a solution.

Different ways to provide a solution

Environment that encourages risk taking

Exemplars

Provide quality, timely feedback.

Problems – inquiry, insight, innovation.

Feedback – what they can do nexts time.

Opportunities for student reflection.

Reason for learning – must come from the heart.

Important for students to generate ideas, often comes down to confidence.

Wide range – get ideas into reality.

21st centrury skills -> need 21st century tools.

Level up skills.

Creative tools – human

More and more people have access.

Creativity – prized in the workforce

Digital literacy

Adobe Spark, Premiere Rush

Not all tools – physical

Some are visual.

New tools -> new ways of thinking -> more powerful, more powerful the ideas they can create.

Tools can’t become the purpose.

Digital portfolios, websites, social impact tools etc.

As educators – need to learn to use tools, need to teach these schools.

Some of these are tech, some are not.

Learning environments provide these opportunities.

Modelling the creative process

Show that it’s okay to fail, go back to the drawing board.

Okay to take risk, failures as evidence of growth.

Publish, post their work -> has purpose and intention.

Free to think and act creatively

Risk taking, engagement and expression, feedback

Make creativity a goal

Exploration time

Risk taking

Recognition and Support

Diverse groups

Simple strategies to infuse creative thinking into any subject.

Hear educators share how they shifted their practice.

Essential to every learner, every subject.

Dr Brian Johnsrud.

Creativity – core to original and deeper thinking.

Create something novel, new, unique, adds value.

Collaboration/ creativity.

Look at the content from a different perspective.

Creative skills – doesn’t happen overnight. Time, effort, persistence, resilience.

Teach creativity in all subjects and situations.

Challenge – understanding how to integrate creativity.

How can I model creativity skills? How can I encourage creativity?

Creativity – supports depth of understanding.

Divergent, Original, Elaborate, Appropriate <- creative thinking.

What currently supports creativity in the curriculum?

Adopt a different perspective, for example.

Encourage students to ask what if questions.

Ways to engage in diverse ways

Develop own questions

Tie content to experience

Communicate new ideas in new ways

Feedback and formative assessment – really important – focus on growth.

Push students to do better – as they are actually doing it.

Assessment at the time of need.

Creativity – one of the items on a rubric – so they understand when they have used it.

Allows students to see when they’ve done it.

Separate out the value of creativity – different to other skills – make it explicit.

Open for student interpretation – e.g. don’t tell them what digital tool to use.

For students to learn and grow – peer, self, formal or informal feedback.

Meaningful assessment – assessing creativity – doesn’t have to be challenging.

Assessment of creativity

Assessment for creativity

Developing creativity in students.

Building out creative thinking.

Explicit feedback – iterate

Feel secure – able to undertake creative risk.

Importance of choice.

Immediate feedback loops.

Growth mindset/ creative risk taking.

Need to have the right tools

THIS IS TROUBLING…THOUGHTS ABOUT AFFORDANCES HERE

ACE program pd materials, events, opportunity to connect with educators.

Blog, social media channels.

Badges for each level.

Scaffolded experience.

Learning artefact – graphic for adobe tool of choice.

How will you support creativity?

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