creativity on i os

Unleashing Creativity with iOS

Nicholas YatesInstructional Designer

Apple Distinguished Educator @digitalemerge

How creative are you?

“Creative skills aren’t just about good ideas, they are about having the skills to make good

things happen.”Paul Collard

http://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/features/30-things-you-can-do-to-promote-creativity-in-your-classroom/

The ChallengeHow can students

creatively demonstrate their knowledge and

skills?

Outline

My Challenge (but only with your

help)

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Why take the time to be creative?

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The Creative Process

The ChallengeHow can students

creatively demonstrate their knowledge and

skills?

The Creative Process

•Teaching and Learning

•Inquiry

•Process and Product

•Other…

http://www.organizingcreativity.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/OC-Poster-English-reduced.pdf

Generating

•Setting time for ideas

•Knowledge to create

•Divergent thinking

•Critical thinking

Generating

Capturing

•Documenting the idea

•Divergent thinking

Capturing

Collecting

•Deeper inquiry into select ideas

•Critical thinking

•Diverge then converge

Collecting

Realisation

•Convergent thinking

•Pursue one idea

•Make it real

Realisation

Discussions + Forums

Process vs. Product

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Creativity

Process:How are students working out

a problem?

•iPad

•Paper

•Head

•Laptop

• Comics

• Videos

•Music - raps

• Podcasts

• 3D modelling

• Teach others

• e-Books

• Showcases

• Presentations

• Sketches

• Social Media

•Other…

Product:How are students

demonstrating an answer to a problem?

Multiple Intelligences

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•Peer teaching

•Collaboration

•Discussions

Interpersonal

•Read / tell stories

•Reading aloud

•Creative writing

Verbal-Linguistic

•Problem solving

•Experiments

•Critical thinking

Logical-Mathematical

•Working outside

•Identifying and classifying

•Researching

Naturalistic

•Reflective

•Keep journals

•Scrapbooks

Intrapersonal

•Drawing

•Visual mapping

•Photos and 3D modelling

Visual-Spatial

•Writing songs

•Singing songs

•Concepts in songs

Musical

•Performing

•Scavenger hunts

•Building

Bodily-Kinesthetic

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Process + Product WorkflowInqui

ry

Inquiry Process:Inquiry Process:Working out a problemWorking out a problem

ExperimentingExperimenting

Inquiry Process:Inquiry Process:Working out a problemWorking out a problem

ExperimentingExperimenting

Inquiry Inquiry Product:Product:SolutionSolutionAnswerAnswerResultsResults

Inquiry Inquiry Product:Product:SolutionSolutionAnswerAnswerResultsResults

Creativity

Inquiry

Inquiry Process:Inquiry Process:Working out a problemWorking out a problem

ExperimentingExperimenting

Inquiry Process:Inquiry Process:Working out a problemWorking out a problem

ExperimentingExperimenting

Inquiry Inquiry Product:Product:SolutionSolutionAnswerAnswerResultsResults

Inquiry Inquiry Product:Product:SolutionSolutionAnswerAnswerResultsResults

CreativityMultiple

Intelligences

Your Turn!

How creative are you?

How creative are you?

How creative you are.

The ChallengeHow can students

creatively demonstrate their knowledge and

skills?

The Creative Process

How can the creative process support student

creativity in your classroom?

How would you implement it?

Multiple Intelligences

How can multiple intelligences support

student creativity in your classroom?

How would you implement it?

Multiple Intelligences

How can multiple intelligences support

student creativity in your classroom?

How would you implement them?

The Creative Process

How can the creative process support student

creativity in your classroom?

How would you implement it?

Nicholas Yates

Apple Distinguished Educator

Apple Professional Developer

nicholas.yates@zu.ac.ae

@digitalemerge