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Show Creativity Like a 7 Year Old
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso
Darya Zabelina and Michael Robinson of North Dakota State University conducted research based on this principle and showed that with the responsibilities and constraints of adulthood, the playfulness and curiosity of childhood can sometimes get lost [...]
Ideas for Encouraging Collaboration and Creativity Part II: how to brainstorm properly
If you are looking to start an innovations group either in your school or across county and you want to focus on a particular issue then you probably need to thrash out some ideas before you decide. A good old-fashioned brain-storming session will be great starting point for your collaboration. We also mentioned a [...]
Read more »Ideas for Encouraging Collaboration and Creativity Part I: how to collaborate virtually
How to collaborate virtually
If you are working in different geographical areas and struggle to meet regularly then you need to find easy yet effective solutions to ensure that your collaboration does not suffer. Also, these ideas work well if you simply wish to kick-start the collaboration before meeting. Here follows a series if ideas that [...]
Making Learning Relevant: using street art in lessons
I came across a Tweet by DLFresources which showed four new pieces produced by the interesting street artist Banksy. Using graffiti in the classroom does not go without controversy but it does give us the opportunity to examine why artists and ordinary people, ever since the Roman times, have turned to producing messages of various [...]
Read more »Master of Puppets
I had the pleasure of meeting the educational officer of a local puppet theater the other day and it got me thinking about the power of active and ‘hands-on’ learning as well as the opportunity for pupils to consider both the finer details and the bigger picture no matter the subject or topic. There are [...]
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