 Now is the time to be a creative thinker. An artist. A designer. A storyteller.  The world is in need of critical thinkers and problem solvers, people who can produce new ideas and come up with new solutions  The creative process thrives on the freedom to think and act outside of normal procedures

It is only one way to avoid mistakes – not generate new ideas Albert Einstein The best way to fins good idea – to have many ideas Linus Pauling boldpost.leibold.com

-Capacity to see problems and find new, original ways to solve them; -Capacity to promote new ideas; -Capacity to find, create new things; -Capacity to think independently; -Capacity to express oneself in new ways and forms; -Ability to come up with ideas that are new, surprising and valuable. - Associated fields – artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, philosophy, arts etc.. - Not a special faculty but is an aspect of general intelligence. e.g. Escher's drawings, Einstein's works, inventions, discoveries etc..

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 COGNITIVE thinking, capacity to work with information and solve problems  APPROACH to personal creativity  EMOTIONAL & MOTIVATIONAL  INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS: capacity to participate in creativity process with others jeffreysterlingmd.com

 Innovation  Synthesis  Extension  Duplication

 Adjectives used to describe creative people  Original  Resourceful  Reflective  Self-confident jeffreysterlingmd.com

Ordinary creativity – capacity to create something new while imagination, improvisation, problem solving Special, exclusive creativity – capacity to develop new, original ideas, knowledge, art, etc., that are valuable and acknowledged by societies, have impact on them

IMPROVIZATION Music Art Dance Play Performance Communication Literature Architecture Cinema, theater Any new product

 Talent (natural aptitude)  Personal characteristics, motivation  Readiness (experience, education)  Impact of environment

Bloom’s Taxonomy plpnetwork.com180 × 180

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Wallis' model of the Creative process  1. In the preparation stage, we define the problem, need, or desire, and gather any information the solution or response needs to account for, and set up criteria for verifying the solution's acceptability.  2. In the incubation stage, we step back from the problem and let our minds contemplate and work it through. Like preparation, incubation can last minutes, weeks, even years.  3. In the illumination stage, ideas arise from the mind to provide the basis of a creative response.. Unlike the other stages, illumination is often very brief, involving a tremendous rush of insights within a few minutes or hours.  4. In verification, the final stage, one carries out activities to demonstrate whether or not what emerged in illumination satisfies the need and the criteria defined in the preparation stage.

-We get together…think, discuss, design implementation of our ideas (PREPARATION), such as ‘ DO SOMETHING INNOVATIVE AT SCHOOL’ -Let your mind wander (Incubation) - eureka!!! 'oh my God! That's the idea!‘ That’ s the way we do it ( Illumination ) -anything you accomplish…WELL DONE !!! good to rethink through - critical thinking skills to recall illumination and the criteria defined in the preparation stage – that’s why you get better and better. (Verification) BE CREATIVE & INNOVATIVE by TRIAL & ERROR

 Any piece of my work that really expresses myself - some can be from the past, but my creativity in January 2015 and onwards can add more new “products” of my creativity…  such as an essay, a story, a painting, a drawing, a poem, a video, a piece of music –myself and/or my friends play and sing-, a graffiti work, a scientific work (design a science inquiry or short research on a social issue, a debate, a school club…), a plan for the future and how shall I approach it, an ambition, myself in the world at a glance (a comic, a collage, a story…)

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