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Breaking traditions 2013

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Mary Loftus
Mary Loftus

This document discusses the importance of creativity and innovation in education. It notes that the future demands creative approaches, and that creativity involves encoding, selecting, and recombining existing ideas. While creativity was once seen as a gift to few, it is now an economic and personal imperative. The document advocates for educating students in skills like collaboration, critical thinking, initiative and adapting to change. Schools are highlighted as powerful community resources that can foster creativity if they protect childhood and enable civic partnerships and local innovation. Overall, the document argues for nurturing creativity in students and making space for "hackers and makers".

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A Creativity Crisis? • How do we make space for the hackers and the makers?
Breaking traditions 2013
Creativity is not about creating ‘something out of nothing’… Creativity encodes, selects, re- combines synthesises already existing facts, ideas, facilities, skills Arthur Koestler (1964) The Act of Creation
We are educating young people for a future not yet invented
• But we do know that it will be a future that demands creative approaches to life, work and community
20th Century 21st Century Worker Participant Consumer Innovator Charles Leadbetter
The future is open for us to act on it, but not for us to control - Edmund Phelps
Are you a creative person?
We used to think creativity was given to just a special few We were mostly afraid of them
Elizabeth Gilbert – creativity is a kind of divine intervention – arrived at by hard work
Creativity is not just an economic imperative today – it’s a personal one
And a social one
Knowledge is a commodity The world does not care about what you know
The world cares about what you can do with what you know
The world does not ask, what knowledge you have? It asks what skills do you have? What can you do? Are you motivated? Tony Wagner – Creating Innovators
To be a Continuous learner / Active informed citizen: Collaboration Critical thinking / across networks – Agility / Problem solving leading by Adaptability influence Effective Oral / Accessing / Initiative / Written Analysing Entrepreneurship Communications Information Curiosity / Imagination
What does a creative person look like?
Breaking traditions 2013
Breaking traditions 2013
My Grandfather cut more turf in a day than any other man on Toner’s bog Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods over his shoulder, going down and down. For the good turf. Digging
70s oil shortages? Not a problem :)
Power outages?
Stove Starter Stove won’t light?
Leftover Wavin pipe?
And he’s infected his grandchildren…
Just Do It Risk Taking Not hung Tenacious, up on Never give process up Do we educate these attributes out of young people?
• PISA scores inversely correlated with innovation – Pam Moran / Ira Socol
Economic Requirements - skills in creativity, design, problem solving and innovation will be essential for high productivity • Una Halligan, Chair, Expert Group on Future Skills Needs 2009
Our main brands
Lean Manufacturing – Flow Improve quality, Eliminate waste, Simplify Identify problems and empower local users to solve using the Scientific Method (Lean Six Sigma) Flatten hierarchies Manage Risk
What our students will make and use – hasn’t been invented yet Because our students will invent them
Resilience and ability to weather change
The font of creativity is vulnerability There is no innovation or creativity – without failure
Creativity in schools 1:04 3:55
Schools are innovating
Christmas Concert
Breaking traditions 2013
Schools are hugely powerful Last community resource • Keri Facer
Do we protect children too much? Can civic society and school work together to build new futures? School as centre of local innovation? • Keri Facer
Coder Dojo Apps for Good Young Rewired State
CoderDojo – notice where the parent is (left) and where the children are (leading the room)
Apps for Good
Breaking traditions 2013
Academia Online Education – NUI Galway MOOCs – Sligo IT Student as Producer – Lincoln University Bridge to Learn – Trinity #Edchatie
Breaking traditions 2013
Breaking traditions 2013
Student as Producer
Carl Rogers ‘Saw himself as a facilitator - one who created the environment for engagement. •Active Listening •Creating a safe space There were 'ways of being' with others that foster • Realness in the facilitator of exploration and encounter‘ learning Smith (1999) • Prizing, acceptance, trust • Empathetic understanding Further reading: Joe McCarthy Donald Clark
Breaking traditions 2013
Mentors Is there a teacher or mentor who’s made a difference – 2/3rds said yes Many of these mentor teachers were outliers
What can each one of us do? Nurture our own creativity We have to be innovators, model, take risks, make mistakes, learn from them, work collaboratively Where am I modelling play, passion, purpose? Connect with others doing the same
Create safe spaces Model Creativity Make connections with students & outside our institution Get out of the way
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Breaking traditions 2013

  • 1. A Creativity Crisis? • How do we make space for the hackers and the makers?
  • 3. Creativity is not about creating ‘something out of nothing’… Creativity encodes, selects, re- combines synthesises already existing facts, ideas, facilities, skills Arthur Koestler (1964) The Act of Creation
  • 4. We are educating young people for a future not yet invented
  • 5. • But we do know that it will be a future that demands creative approaches to life, work and community
  • 6. 20th Century 21st Century Worker Participant Consumer Innovator Charles Leadbetter
  • 7. The future is open for us to act on it, but not for us to control - Edmund Phelps
  • 8. Are you a creative person?
  • 9. We used to think creativity was given to just a special few We were mostly afraid of them
  • 10. Elizabeth Gilbert – creativity is a kind of divine intervention – arrived at by hard work
  • 11. Creativity is not just an economic imperative today – it’s a personal one
  • 13. Knowledge is a commodity The world does not care about what you know
  • 14. The world cares about what you can do with what you know
  • 15. The world does not ask, what knowledge you have? It asks what skills do you have? What can you do? Are you motivated? Tony Wagner – Creating Innovators
  • 16. To be a Continuous learner / Active informed citizen: Collaboration Critical thinking / across networks – Agility / Problem solving leading by Adaptability influence Effective Oral / Accessing / Initiative / Written Analysing Entrepreneurship Communications Information Curiosity / Imagination
  • 17. What does a creative person look like?
  • 20. My Grandfather cut more turf in a day than any other man on Toner’s bog Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods over his shoulder, going down and down. For the good turf. Digging
  • 21. 70s oil shortages? Not a problem :)
  • 25. And he’s infected his grandchildren…
  • 26. Just Do It Risk Taking Not hung Tenacious, up on Never give process up Do we educate these attributes out of young people?
  • 27. • PISA scores inversely correlated with innovation – Pam Moran / Ira Socol
  • 28. Economic Requirements - skills in creativity, design, problem solving and innovation will be essential for high productivity • Una Halligan, Chair, Expert Group on Future Skills Needs 2009
  • 30. Lean Manufacturing – Flow Improve quality, Eliminate waste, Simplify Identify problems and empower local users to solve using the Scientific Method (Lean Six Sigma) Flatten hierarchies Manage Risk
  • 31. What our students will make and use – hasn’t been invented yet Because our students will invent them
  • 32. Resilience and ability to weather change
  • 33. The font of creativity is vulnerability There is no innovation or creativity – without failure
  • 38. Schools are hugely powerful Last community resource • Keri Facer
  • 39. Do we protect children too much? Can civic society and school work together to build new futures? School as centre of local innovation? • Keri Facer
  • 40. Coder Dojo Apps for Good Young Rewired State
  • 41. CoderDojo – notice where the parent is (left) and where the children are (leading the room)
  • 44. Academia Online Education – NUI Galway MOOCs – Sligo IT Student as Producer – Lincoln University Bridge to Learn – Trinity #Edchatie
  • 48. Carl Rogers ‘Saw himself as a facilitator - one who created the environment for engagement. •Active Listening •Creating a safe space There were 'ways of being' with others that foster • Realness in the facilitator of exploration and encounter‘ learning Smith (1999) • Prizing, acceptance, trust • Empathetic understanding Further reading: Joe McCarthy Donald Clark
  • 50. Mentors Is there a teacher or mentor who’s made a difference – 2/3rds said yes Many of these mentor teachers were outliers
  • 51. What can each one of us do? Nurture our own creativity We have to be innovators, model, take risks, make mistakes, learn from them, work collaboratively Where am I modelling play, passion, purpose? Connect with others doing the same
  • 52. Create safe spaces Model Creativity Make connections with students & outside our institution Get out of the way

Editor's Notes

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  • #33: Photo by By etutoriahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/etutoria/8368017807/in/photostream
  • #40: http://www.learningwithoutfrontiers.com/2012/02/keri-facer-learning-futures/