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Research and Policy
A Culture Strategy for Scotland
A Culture Strategy for Scotland shows how important culture is to Scotland’s prosperity and sets the future direction for supporting culture in Scotland...
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Research and Policy
Ken Muir Report Sketchnote
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Online Teaching Tools
Everything is Creative: online infographic and meme maker
Everything Is creative is an online digital poster/meme/infographic making tool that offers educators the capacity to do the following: • Build creativity infographics that relate creativity skills directly to their own practice, learners, subjects and themes...
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Research and Policy
Eric Booth Website
As "one of the 25 most important people in American arts education" Eric Booth has influenced our own thinking about creativity across teaching and learning here in Scotland...
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Online Teaching Tools
Creative Teaching and Learning Graphic Equaliser Tool
The Graphic Equaliser was created by Education Scotland as an interactive tool for educators to explore and assess how creative the learning experience and teaching is...
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Research and Policy
The Creativity Post
The Creativity Post is a non-profit committed to sharing the very best content on creativity, in all of its forms: from scientific discovery to philosophical debate, from entrepreneurial ventures to educational reform...
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Research and Policy
Coffitivity
A team of researchers, led by Ravi Mehta at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign tested the effects of varying levels of noise on participants’ creative thinking skills, proving that moderately loud background noise boosts creative thinking...
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Research and Policy
A Creative Approach to Improvement Planning
A Powerpoint presentation by Education Scotland...
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Online Teaching Tools
Knot your average sheep...
Popularising mathematics the ovine way...
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Research and Policy
Research to support Schools of Ambition: final report
Provides an overview of the Schools for Ambition programme, which sought to enable 52 individual schools in Scotland to determine their priorities for a three-year period of transformation...
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Online Teaching Tools
App smashing for teachers: The power of app cross-pollination
TED Education article on stringing multiple tablet apps together to create, synthesise and adapt...
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Research and Policy
99 Percent
99% is a think tank that focuses on what happens after inspiration - researching the forces that truly push ideas forward...
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Online Teaching Tools
Young Engineers and Science Clubs
A network of over 430 science, engineering and technology clubs throughout Scotland, with a membership of more than 5,000 young people engaging in practical hands-on science and engineering activities to enthuse them to pursue a career in science...
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Online Teaching Tools
Transforming Learning approach
An improvement approach that offers a suite of resources aimed at empowering transformational change and leadership at all levels...
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Online Teaching Tools
Room 13 Scotland
Room 13 is a social enterprise organisation which encompasses an expanding network of linked studios worldwide...
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Research and Policy
Creative Little Scientists
Creative Little Scientists aims to bring together creativity and science and mathematics in preschool and first years of primary education (up to the age of eight)...
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Research and Policy
The TIME Creativity Poll
In partnership with the Motion Picture Association of America and Microsoft, TIME polled Americans about the role of creativity in the workplace, in schools and in government...
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Research and Policy
The Periodic Table of 21st Century Play
An infographic that sets out the research by Laura Richardson, who has spoken on the subject at MIT, in a clear and inspiring way...
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Research and Policy
Creativity and Tackling Prejudice
Powerpoint Presentation by Stephen Bullock, Development Officer for Creativity with Education Scotland, delivered to the Education Scotland & Renfrewshire Council national event: Tackling Prejudiced based bullying & Promoting Equality and Diversity It argues that the creativity skills, especially open-mindedness, are central to tackling prejudice and prejudice based bullying and are a means of embedding this agenda across the curriculum and challenging prejudice at its root, in the habits of mind of the individual...
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Research and Policy
Learning: creative approaches that raise standards
An OFSTED report on how 44 schools used creative approaches to learning...