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Apps and Activities for Fostering Creativity & Higher-Level Thinking

Cur [email protected]

@CurtisChandler6

Wednesday, March 11, 15

Wednesday, March 11, 15

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Creativity is balance among synthetic, analytic, and practical abilities.

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Sternberg & Williams, 1996

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Creativity--the ability to create something

unique, inventive, novel, and... of course...useful.

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In a time when most questions can be answered in a matter of seconds using a search engine, why should we care about questioning

practices?

Higher-level thinking

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In a time when most questions can be answered in a matter of seconds using a search engine, why should we care about questioning

practices?

“Mental engagement with ideas, objects, and

situations...”

Alexander et al., 2011

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In a time when most questions can be answered in a matter of seconds using a search engine, why should we care about questioning

practices?

Transformation of knowledge...NOT

reproduction!

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goo.gl/hgWPND

a bajillion resources at...

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Apps and Activities for Fostering Creativity & Higher-Level Thinking

Cur [email protected]

@CurtisChandler6

Wednesday, March 11, 15