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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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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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Research and Policy
The National Parent Forum of Scotland Guide to Creativity
The National Parent Forum of Scotland nutshell guide, with a focus on Creativity, Enterprise and Employability, is aimed at parents with children of all ages...
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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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Online Teaching Tools
Knot your average sheep...
Popularising mathematics the ovine way...
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Quotes
“I believe Scotland stands on the threshold of becoming a world leader in creativity, if, and only if, the education sector embraces the challenge of creativity across the curriculum to realize the Curriculum for Excellence...”
—Eric Booth, international creative learning consultant and author of The Everyday Work of Art
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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
National Creativity Network (U.S.)
We believe that by fostering creativity in our society as a whole, and specifically with future generations, America can remain a leader in innovation and free enterprise...
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Quotes
“I want us all to think about new and creative ways to … encourage young people to create and build and invent — to be makers of things, not just consumers of things...”
—Barack Obama, U.S. President
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Research and Policy
Why Preschool Shouldn't Be Like School - direct instruction versus exploration and play
MIT and UC-Berkeley research into learning poses the following questions and provide scientific support for the idea that direct instruction can limit young children's learning...
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Online Teaching Tools
Improving Gender Balance in Coding Clubs
A toolkit for encouraging gender balance that can be used to inform all voluntary learning experiences, clubs and Community Learning and Development...
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Research and Policy
The #creativity Daily
An online newspaper collating articles tweeted by creative Twitter users from across the globe...
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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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Quotes
“Infants are extreme explorers; they possess qualities that are often lost by adulthood: curiosity, novelty seeking, always learning (and adapting) without much hesitation, and perhaps most importantly, not being afraid of failing...”
—Rachel Wu - Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, New York
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Research and Policy
How to Inspire Creativity in Your Kids
An Expert Reviewed WikiHow resource that offers three different approaches to developing creativity in your children and learners...
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Quotes
“Success in love involves...”
—Robert J. Sternberg, Oklahoma State University
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Research and Policy
This is the one skill your child needs for the jobs of the future
The World Economic Forum released its Human Capital Report with the subtitle “Preparing People for the Future of Work”...
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Online Teaching Tools
TED - The Creative Spark
Over 300 filmed talks on a broad range of creative themes by some of the leading speakers and innovators...
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Online Teaching Tools
Live UnLtd
Live UnLtd backs people aged 11-21 who want to change their world for the better...