Creative Thinking

ICT Key Skills Project WorkNelli Lau

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Summary

Definition Creative Methods Creativity – Negative and Positive

Attitudes History of Thinking Skills in the UK Edward de Bono References

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What is Creativity?

Mental process Creating/imagining

new ideas or concepts out of the existing ideas or concepts

Right brain activity

Right brain vs left brain creativity test

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Creative Methods

Evolution – increasing improvement

Synthesis – existing ideas are combined into a new idea

Revolution – best new idea is a complete different one

Reapplication – look at something old in a new way

Changing direction – creative insight

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Negative Attitudes That Block Creativity

Oh no, a problem!

It can’t be done.

I can’t do it.

But I’m not creative.

I might fail.

This is childish.

What will people think?

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Positive Attitudes for Creativity

Curiosity

Challenge

Ability tosuspend

judgement &criticism

To see a needfor

improvement

?

Seeing the good in

the bad

CREATIVITY

? - A believe that most problems can be solved.

? - Problems lead to improvement.

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History of Thinking Skills in the UK

Year Development1980s &

early 1990sPhilip Adey & Michael Shayer – ‘perhaps the best research and most robust evidence of the impact of thinking skills in the UK’

1985 Nickerson, Perkins & Smith listed 30 different programs

1992 Sternberg & Berg approached to ‘teaching thinking’ - key elements to identify techniques

1993 Wallace & Adams – Thinking Actively in a Social Context (problem-solving)

1999 McGuinnes – Activating Children’s Thinking Skills

2001 Higgins – Thinking Through Primary Teaching

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Edward de Bono

Lateral Thinking- untraditional

methods- generative- richness- opens up other

pathways- different approaches- provocative- can make jumps

Vertical Thinking- traditional/logical- selective- rightness- excludes other

pathways- best approach- analytical- sequential

A - B – C - DD – C – B – A

G

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References

left-brain-right-brain on Flickr - Photo Sharing! Right Brain vs Left Brain Creativity Test at The Art

Institute of Vancouver Introduction to Creative Thinking The Standards Site: History of thinking skills

development Summernight in Scandinavia on Flickr - Photo Sharing! Think* on Flickr - Photo Sharing! Definition of Think from dictionary. net http://www.randomhouse.com.au/

authordatabaselarge/De%20Bono,%20Edward.jpg Edward de Bono – Lateral Thinking

(Penguin, ISNB 978-0-14-013779-8)

Think

1. Judge or regard; look upon; judge; 2. Expect, believe, or suppose;  3. Use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason; 4. Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; 5. Imagine or visualize;  6. Focus one's attention on a certain state;  7. Have in mind as a purpose; 8. Decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting;9. Ponder; reflect on, or reason about; 10. Dispose the mind in a certain way; 11. Have or formulate in the mind;