Creativity-in-Digital-Learning-and-Teaching British Council

Trainer: Nik Peachey

Creativity in Digital Learning & Teaching

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Nik Peachey

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Learning Technology Consultant

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Content Author

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Online Course Designer

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Director - PeacheyPublications

Creativity

Downloads

Tools for Creativity

The Senses

Grouping & Connecting

Brainstorming

Convergent & Divergent

7 Steps

Why creativity?

Index

What is it and how does it work?

Why Creativity

• Communication is a creative process
• Self-expression
• Life enhancement
• Personal fulfilment
• Employability
• Enhances problem solving abilities

Why Creativity

Interrogate the challenge ask lots of questions and research the challenge to make sure you understand it.

Understand the challenge

Time to create and solve your problem.

Produce

Evaluate the feedback and try to decide what feedback is useful and actionable.

Reflect

Use divergent thinking techniques to brainstorm possible solutions.

Look for solutions

Present your most promising solutions to other people and get their honest and open feedback.

Show & Share

Use convergent think techniques to explore and evaluate the possible solutions.

Evaluate solutions

Try to combine possible solutions to come up with new and better solutions.

Combine

7 Steps to Creative Thinking

Creative Goal

Quality of ideas

Quantity of ideas

Convergent & Divergent Thinking

Divergent thinking

Brainstorming should be:

• Fast/Time pressured
• Free
• Without judgement
• Focused on quantity

Brainstorming

Convergent thinking

Involves:

• Deeper research
• Thinking more critically
• Looking for commonalities
• Making connections

Grouping - Connecting - Evaluating

Divergent Thinking

Brainstorming Exercises

• Topic vocabulary
• Different ways of...
• Fixing the world
• Pros or cons

Brainstorm

" Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about _______________"

Let's do a tightrope walk

Swim with Sharks

Tightrop Walk

Ski Jump

Snakepit

Kickboxing

Haunted House

Motorcycle Jump

Bungee Jump

Would you do it if ...?

Convergent thinking

Grouping Connecting

• Portmanteau words
• Two plots in one

Combining

• Odd word out
• Grouping words

Grouping & Connecting

Bowl

Headphones

Make a mashup

• 25 Truly Useful Inventions That You Never Knew You Needed

• The 80 Most Amazing Creative Inventions and Concept Designs

Mashup examples

Enhancing Creativity

The Senses

• A Meal
• The Last Film
• A Text

Visualisation

• Image Smells
• Tasty Words

Taste & Smell

• Sentence Sketch
• Sketching Comprehension
• Storyboarding Success

Sketching

• Song Sentence Revision
• Sound Collections

Sound & Music

• 5 Random Images
• Image Research

Photos & Images

Getting creative with digital

Tools for Creativity

• Commaful
• Writing prompts
• Writing prompts (Children)
• Write About

Tools

• Be vulnerable and willing to take risks with the students
• Be an equal in the process of creation
• Be encouraging and don’t dismiss any ideas or suggestions
• Try to keep things light in the classroom
• Assess language not creativity

Remember: Constructive criticism can be good, but focussing on helping students identify and build on their own strengths is much better.

The Creative Classroom

Our Teacher's Classroom App

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