Final ProductCRS580 Creativity Assessment: Measures and

Methods

Buffalo State College

Mariano Tosso

December 2, 2012

IntroductionI illustrated highlights of key concepts from Chapters 21 and 22 using my

imagination, visual and conceptual reframing, to diverge into new perspectives. How? After selecting highlights /original statements of these chapters, I used my imagination to generate boards that contain illustrative metaphors such as visuals, quotes, and conceptual sketches, sometimes intentionally provocative and incorporating humor. Brief description of my approach:- What’s unique & original? Most of the time, I used as springboard different emotions, to transform an original statement into emotionally colorful shadow projections via metaphors.-Divergence may hopefully bring across these concepts in a powerful way that provides enhanced emotional resonance to different people. Most of the time, divergent playing with an emotional roulette was the tool selected for this purpose, which by its output hopefully reflects both, my imagination and conceptual understanding.- Besides emotions, I also used multiple intelligences and MBTI as divergent springboards.- Last, I included my conceptual visual expression of one of our daily paradigms.

Highlight statements

Emotional springboard

Emotionally colorful shadow projections

My creative transformation process:

Rationale & References

Highlight statements

Emotional springboard

Emotionally colorful shadow projections

My creative transformation process:

I became interested in using emotions and metaphors for this assignment after reading the article:

Todd I. Lubart & Isaac Getz (1997): Emotion, Metaphor, and the Creative Process, Creativity Research Journal, 10:4, 285-301

A number of ideas in the article captured my attention, and led me to explore them in practice via this assignment:

- Metaphor generation is a unique creative ability, and thus seemed relevant for creating my final product.

There are conventional metaphors and novel ones, which bring new or unusual views. The later ones are the most useful ones to extend the insights a topic or problem.

- The authors posited the power of emotions to access concepts with creative potential, in particular its use in

metaphor creation.- Emotions are alike creativity, multidimensional, extremely rich!- Emotions are attached to concepts and images, and imprinted in our memory.

- Metaphors are believed to generate emotional waves that propagate throughout the memory system.

Depending on the target emotional make-up, metaphors achieve different resonating power. Thus, can

help us to achieve memorable associations between distant concepts, and therefore, hopefully consolidate

our learning about a specific topic. In summary, metaphors charged with emotions are a recipe for creative

thinking and should lead to achieving memorable learning!

Original statement: Everyone has some creative talent!

“Visual” metaphorsplaying emotional roulette:

(Mamacita, this chainsaw is dedicated to your sense of humor! )

Original statement: Creativity tends to flourish where it is valued

“Visual” metaphorsplaying emotional roulette:

Original statement: If creativity means having original ideas that are useful, it can relate to any activity in school and any subject in curriculum“Visual” metaphorsplaying emotional roulette:

Original statement: Motivation is a key enabler of creativity!

“Written” metaphors(quotes) playing emotional roulette:

If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt Disney

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward. Victor Kiam

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Edwin Land

Inside (the creative experience) is inquiry, the expansion of emotional depth and range, the tuning of the spirit and the quest for meaning. Peter London

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars. Brian Littrell

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. Zig Ziglar

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity… Edward de Bono

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. Wayne Dyer

Original statement: The capacity to imagine is also a key enabler of creativity!

“Conceptual” metaphors(visual and written)playing emotional roulette:

Original statement: The teacher’s defined creativity was found to covary with their preferred way of teaching

Conceptual metaphors(visual and written)playing emotional roulette:

Original statement: The teacher’s defined creativity was found to covary with their preferred way of teachingI illustrated how teachers may tap into multiple intelligences to connect to students about the theme of “chocolate”

Chocolate song by Kylie:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izShX8VW1HY

Original statement: The teacher’s defined creativity was found to covary with their preferred way of teaching

Visual metaphors & stereotypesplaying the multidimensionalMBTI chords:

Scale warning:High risk of emotional hijacking

Emotions, emotions, emotions: “We are feeling machines that think!”Quotes from video source: : http://www.illywords.com/2012/10/we-are-feelings%C2%B4machines-that-think/

We are at all timesfeeling “emotions”!

Original statement: Creativity is multidimensional

“Visual” metaphorsplaying emotional roulette:

Original statement: To use a variety of psychological measures is helpful since each one brings not only different perspectives, but also uniquestrengths and weaknesses

blind-spots(black-hole)

stress center copingmechanisms

values

thinking

attitudes

hidden

competences

non-transferable

skills

perceptions

Alzheimer’s

starting

point

Sense of

humor

Love at first sight

consciousunconscious

emotionschanges

domain skills

transferable

skills

Emotions

strengthsweaknesses

Eureka

Emotional hijacking

imagination

curiosity

Cognitive skillspurch

ase

decisions

passion

questions

Visualization shows a personality dashboard with multiple psychometric outputs in progress. Different instruments help to reveal the underlying sketch of hypotheticalinternal components, facets, and complex ways of working in the background…

1. Competition is key driver ofeducational improvement this results inhigh competition for resources, and lower program autonomy for teachers

Original statement: The 21st Century education system faces significant improvement challenges, andhas three key barriers:

2. Standardization of teaching often means less risks and less collaboration

3. Teacher’s recent accountability for student’s standard test results discourages focus on creative efforts… since standard tests do not actually measure creativity…

Daily Paradigm : creative focus, time management, and priority choice