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Education Week: States Mulling Creativity Indexes for Schools - 3 views

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  • Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin recently announced plans for a public-private partnership to produce an innovation index for schools, which she described as a "public measurement of the opportunities for our students to engage in innovative work."
  • "We're tapping into a very clear need, as expressed particularly by employers, to reincorporate into the curriculum and school experience many opportunities for young people to develop creativity-oriented skills," said Massachusetts Sen. Stan Rosenberg, a Democrat and the lead sponsor of his chamber's 2010 bill calling for the index
  • fostering creativity has become a high priority among some of the United States' top economic competitors. In a recent Education Week Commentary, Byong-man Ahn, a former South Korean minister of education, said that "creating the type of education in which creativity is emphasized over rote learning" is a top education goal for his government.
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  • In fact, some emerging research seems to point to two critical aspects of creativity that can be hard to teach: the willingness to take risks and learn from failure, and the ability to transfer ways of solving problems between seemingly unrelated situations
  • they are keenly aware of the dangers of crafting an oversimplified index that fails to adequately reflect opportunities for creativity, or that fosters the wrong incentives
  • In California, the bill passed in January to develop a creativity index is similar to the Massachusetts measure, but is explicitly identified as a voluntary index. Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, vetoed a version without that stipulation, included in a broader bill, last year
anonymous

Creativity is the Secret Sauce in STEM | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Humans have a few basic needs: air, food, water, clothing, shelter, belonging, intimacy and Wi-Fi.
  • Creativity is the secret sauce to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
  • It is a STEM virtue.
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  • Creativity is really the art of metaphor.
  • Metaphors create a linkage between two dissimilar ideas and are useful in the sciences because they allow information to be attained by connecting the unknown with the known.2 And this is the key element to scientific creativity.
  • the skills of the 21st century need us to create scholars that can link the unlinkable. These scholars must be willing to try many combinations before finding the right answer. They must be comfortable with concepts that they can play with in new ways. We want smart-thinking creative people.
David Passmore

Economic & Workforce Briefing :: Could Higher Education Creatively Destruct? - Pennsylv... - 1 views

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higher education education technology open learning badges

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  • David Passmore on 10 May 12
     
    Essay about how badges could help creatively destruct higher education.
anonymous

Connected Learning - 0 views

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STEMscouts engineering stem creativity

shared by anonymous on 12 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 12 Mar 12
     
    Good site to explain why the hands-on STEM Scouts experience is important.
aybüke gül Türker

MIT Unleashes New Online Game for Math and Science - 0 views

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    A group of researchers in MIT's Education Arcade are trying to harness the power of MMO games to teach high school students to think like scientists and mathematicians. Their game, The Radix Endeavor, is designed to be an educational game, and capitalizes on the interactions students can have as a way to build their knowledge and skills.
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