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A Creativity Crisis?
How do we make space for the hackers and the makers?
Creativity is not about creating ‘something out of nothing’…
Creativity encodes, selects, re-combines synthesises already existing facts, ideas, facilities, skillsArthur 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 CenturyWorker ParticipantConsumer Innovator
Charles Leadbetter
The future is open for us to act on it, but not for us to control- Edmund Phelps
We used to think creativity was given to just a special fewWe 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 commodityThe world does not care about what you know
The world cares about what you can do with what you know
Tony Wagner – Creating Innovators
The world does not ask, what knowledge you have?It asks what skills do you have?What can you do?Are you motivated?
To be a Continuous learner / Active informed citizen:
Critical thinking / Problem solving
Collaboration across networks –
leading by influence
Agility / Adaptability
Initiative / Entrepreneurship
Effective Oral / Written
Communications
Accessing / Analysing
Information
Curiosity / Imagination
What does a creative person look like?
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 turn. Digging
70s oil shortages? Not a problem :)
Power outages?
Stove Starter
Stove won’t light?
Leftover Wavin pipe?
Do we educate these attributes out of young people?
Risk Taking
Tenacious, Never give
up
Not hung up on
process
Just Do It
• 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
Identify problems and solve using the Scientific Method
Try to increase Predictability
Manage Risk
What our students will make and use – hasn’t been invented yetBecause our students will invent them
Resilience and ability to weather change
Creativity in schools 1:04 3:55
Schools are innovating
Christmas Concert
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
Academia
Online Education – NUI Galway
MOOCs – Sligo IT
Student as Producer – Lincoln University
Bridge to Learn - Trinity
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 exploration and encounter‘ Smith (1999)
Further reading:Joe McCarthyDonald Clark
• Realness in the facilitator of learning • Prizing, acceptance, trust • Empathetic understanding
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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