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The Creativity Crisis - Newsweek - 0 views

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  • The correlation to lifetime creative accomplishment was more than three times stronger for childhood creativity than childhood IQ.
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      Keith Hamon on 21 Sep 10
       
      Creativity is key to success in 21st Century, but are we creating opportunities for creativity in our classrooms?
  • The European Union designated 2009 as the European Year of Creativity and Innovation, holding conferences on the neuroscience of creativity, financing teacher training, and instituting problem-based learning programs—curricula driven by real-world inquiry—for both children and adults. In China there has been widespread education reform to extinguish the drill-and-kill teaching style. Instead, Chinese schools are also adopting a problem-based learning approach.
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      Keith Hamon on 21 Sep 10
       
      Problem-based learning matches QEP's emphasis on moving content-delivery out of the classroom to replace it with classroom activities that apply the content to problem solving and critical thinking.
  • The creative problem-solving program has the highest success in increasing children’s creativity
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      Keith Hamon on 21 Sep 10
       
      Creative problem-solving? Is creativity a part of critical thinking? What's the benefit in separating them?
  • Keith Hamon on 21 Sep 10
     
    What's shocking is how incredibly well Torrance's creativity index predicted those kids' creative accomplishments as adults. Those who came up with more good ideas on Torrance's tasks grew up to be entrepreneurs, inventors, college presidents, authors, doctors, diplomats, and software developers. Jonathan Plucker of Indiana University recently reanalyzed Torrance's data. The correlation to lifetime creative accomplishment was more than three times stronger for childhood creativity than childhood IQ.
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Every Child Is A Scientist | Wired Science | Wired.com - 0 views

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  • The lesson of the research is that even little kids react to ambiguity in a systematic and specific fashion. Their mode of playing is really a form of learning, a way of figuring out how the world works. While kids in the unambiguous condition engaged in just as much play as kids in the ambiguous condition, their play was just play. It wasn’t designed to decipher the causal mechanisms of the toy.
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      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 11
       
      The drive for the "correct answer" undermines the role of ambiguity in promoting creativity and critical thinking in students.
  • According to the psychologists, the different reactions were caused by the act of instruction. When students are given explicit instructions, when they are told what they need to know, they become less likely to explore on their own. Curiosity is a fragile thing.
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      Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 11
       
      In our drive to "cover the material," we too often destroy the very curiosity of our students that we so much want to encourage. And public ed has done such a fine job of destroying curiosity with its battery of standardized tests (one correct answer only), that even if we college profs try, we have to work against the learned behaviors and attitudes of our students, esp. our best students who have thoroughly learned & mastered the rote learning game. Free writing can help us create a space in our classes for experimentation and risk-taking, for creativity and critical thinking.
  • Keith Hamon on 05 Oct 11
     
    Pablo Picasso once declared: "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." Well, something similar can be said about scientists. According to a new study in Cognition led by Claire Cook at MIT, every child is a natural scientist. The problem is how to remain a scientist once we grow up.
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http://www.insightassessment.com/pdf_files/PBLTiwariME06abstact.pdf - 1 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    This study found that problem-based learning was significantly better than lecture at enhancing students' critical thinking.
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Don't Teach Them Facts - Let Student Discover Patterns - Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas - 1 views

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  • Keith Hamon on 20 Jun 11
     
    Educators - it's time to stop all the modeling. Get rid of all the canned graphic organizers. Have the courage to be less helpful. Be patient and let students recognize their own patterns. It's messy work, but its where the learning will take place.
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