Creative Memo-making

Sussi Louise Smith UniPæd

November 2014

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a

way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables

you to laugh at life's realities.

Dr. Seuss

Today’s theme: Creativity is the stuff hope is made of

Why is creativity important?

What exactly is creativity and how can you nurture it?

WHERE DO GOOD IDEAS COME FROM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU

Ken Robinson How school kills creativity

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity

[…]kids will take a chance. If they don't know, they'll have a go. Picasso once said this - he said that all children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up. I believe this passionately, that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it. So why is this?

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity/transcript?language=en

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams

Towards a theory of creativity. Carl Rogers: The creative process is defined as the "emergence in action of a novel relational process"

The creative person must have complete freedom to give symbolic expression to his creation. Etc., Vol 11, 1954, 249-260. Maslow, Rogers and Fromm.

Drawing Photo Online apps

https://rucmahara.appinux.com/ Coaching pictures

Painting Memo-techniques

http://www.scribo.dk/pagefront/index/lang/2

Metaphors Extended mind exercises

TAKE NOTES

Presentations 1. ABOUT a bag Take notes any way you would usually do it Then Take notes with a bag in the middle 2. The republic Kingdom of me Take notes like you fancy Then Take notes in a matrix

Agree Disagree

? Numbers/lists

Memo & Mind Map programmes

• Coggle.it • Prezi • Picasa • Mindmapping • Mindmaple • Dionote • Adobe reader

Coggle it

Prezi

Picasa

Techniques

Post-it methods Poster mindmaps Photo-memo – collage techniques Memory palace Extended mind exercises – can be done alone but are more effective if done with others.

Mindmaple Dionote

Find an image from your everyday life that makes sense to you now and draft it

TAKE NOTES

Presentations 1. My worst journey to wrok – that didn’t happen Take notes using the image you just chose 2. Why the gab between teaching and learning is great Take notes using symbols – anything you like

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Mindmapping Alone In group work: with others h

Extended mind exercise ”Rounders”

This exercise is particularly helpful in the first few weeks of the project OR if the group later on have ‘forgotten’ what their project is really about (YES it does happen)

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Choose a timekeeper

Everyone write your subject/research question on a piece of paper

Pass the paper on to the person on the right - write your ideas and comments for 3 minutes, then pass on again

When everybody has their piece of paper (now with comments) back, take time to read it and THEN discuss in the group

Extra

Memo techniques

'the method of loci', ancient Greeks and described by Yates (1966) Luria (1969).

Memorizing the layout of a

(Ross and Lawrence 1968, Crovitz 1969, 1971, Briggs, Hawkins and Crovitz 1970, Lea 1975)

How to make a memory palace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIg73ppoVZw http://www.wikihow.com/Build-a-Memory-Palace

Example of a mindmap made so the person could remember most of the theories in his field in a FUN way