Creative Learning

Steve WheelerPlymouth University, UK

with social media

Technical University Liberec, Czech Republic: May 22, 2013

The answer is in the room

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The pace of change is

accelerating

How will we keep up with it?

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"In the times of rapid change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."

- Eric Hoffer

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“For the first time we are preparing

students for a future we

cannot clearly describe.”

- David Warlick

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What kind of learners?

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Learners taking notesPhoto: Lori Cullen

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Digital Natives?

The Net

Generation?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/56155476@N08/5667863948/

Homo

Zappiens?

Millennials?

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Power users 14%

Ordinary users 27%

Irregular users 14%

Basic users 45%

Source: Kennedy et al (2010) Beyond Digital Natives and Immigrants: Exploring types of net generation students, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 26 (5).

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The research shows something else…

http://truedantalion.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/silver-surfers.html

Digital Residents or Visitors? White and Le Cornu, 2012

‘New’ learners are...• more self-directed• better equipped to capture information• more reliant on feedback from peers• more inclined to collaborate• more oriented toward being their own “nodes of production”.

Education Trends | Featured NewsJohn K. Waters—13 December 2011

http://coolshots.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html

But they need

much more...

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“60% of all Internet pages contain

misleading information.”

- Thomas Edison

Learners need ‘digital literacies’

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“Lee Harvey and the Wailers”(Lee Harvey did not jam alone)

http://www.myspace.com/hsu/photos/6850630

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language

Managing online identity

nameimages

netiquettereputation

avatar interaction

privacy

personal data

identity

legacy

reputationname

privacy

images

interaction

http://i.dailymail.co.uk

Learners need ‘digital wisdom’

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Not only skills... ...Literacies

Learners will need new ‘literacies’• Social networking• Transliteracies• Privacy maintenance• Identity management• Creating content• Organising content• Reusing and repurposing• Filtering and selecting• Self presenting

http://www.mopocket.com/

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“Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

- SocratesPlato

http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-713124904

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Flip the roles, not the classroom

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http://le-flaneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/office-workers.jpg

Mass working...

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... led to mass synchronisation

http://www.delasallewaterford.com

Linear thinkingConformity

Standardisation

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The ICT Suite...

http://www.hseb.utah.edu

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/53921113@N02/5668616495/

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http://blog.prosperyourmind.com

What is creativity?

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Creativity

“Creativity in general is the ability to come up with new ideas that are surprising yet

intelligible, and also valuable in some way”

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http://flexyourgeek.com

“Creativity (in general) is the ability to come up with new ideas that are surprising yet intelligible, and also

valuable in some way”

(Boden, 2001)

Creativity?

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http://flexyourgeek.com

Combinational creativity - combining old ideas in new ways.

e.g. Analogy in science

3 types of Creativity

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http://flexyourgeek.com

Exploratory creativity - what do the rules enable me to do?

e.g. Jazz music.

3 types of Creativity

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Transformational creativity - significant alteration of one or more rules in concept space.

e.g. E=MC2.

3 types of Creativity

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Wallas: 4 Stage Creative Process

PreparationIncubationIlluminationVerification

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http://flexyourgeek.com

Why do we need creative learning?

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Think Different

Kick start your brain. New ideas come from watching

something, talking to people, experimenting,

asking questions, getting out of the office

- Steve Jobs

http://steve-jobs-biography.pics-grabber.appspot.com/

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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way

- Edward de Bono

http://www.flickr.com/photos/caveman_92223/3346906435/

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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties

- Erich Fromm

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Creativity takes courage

- Henri Matisse

Colouring outside the lines Stev

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Permission to fail?

http://blog.prosperyourmind.com

How do you know when learners are being creative?

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We need creative solutions...

Join all nine dotsusing only four straight lines. Do not takeyour pen from the paper and do not go back over any lines.

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A man enters a field with an unopened package and dies. Why?

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http://blog.prosperyourmind.com

What areas of your practice do you want to make more creative?

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Information overload

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Aggregators and curators

http://simfonic.deviantart.com/art/Crumpled-Paper-Ball-Writing-195224259

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Finding, storing and sharing

delicious.com

diigo.com

Social tagging, bookmarking and folksonomies.

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pearltrees.com

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1) Choose 3-4 significant things in the room2) Write a one word description for each on your post-it notes3) Stick the post-it notes onto the things

“If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.”

- Jean Piaget

Image from Jose Mota: http://www.flickr.com/photos/josemota/3617683026/

Gam

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“When we play games we rapidly solve abstract problems in real time ...while being continually assessed ... and often working collaboratively..”

-Graham Brown-MartinHead Teacher Update (Jan 2012)

http://blog.prosperyourmind.com

What will be your plan for the future? Will it involve more creativity?

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“All too often today we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”

- John W Gardner

http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/image/s_flowers-lost-gardens-of-heligan.jpg

http://www.newcastle.edu.au

The future?

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Tower of Hanoi…

What is the least number of moves, one disk at a time, necessary to move x disks from one peg to another - all three pegs can be used, only one disk moved at a time and no disk may be placed on top of a smaller disk.

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