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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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A Creative Approach to Improvement Planning
A Powerpoint presentation by Education Scotland...
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Online Teaching Tools
Career Education Standard 3-18: Learning Resource 5 Introduction to Creativity Skills
This is one of a suite of learning resources which provides support to develop practice related to the Career Education Standard (CES)...
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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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Scotland's Creative Learning Plan at a Glance
A summary of Scotland's national plan for embedding creativity across Scotland's education system, designed as a printed booklet...
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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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GTCS Professional Recognition Award - Creative Learning
GTC Scotland's Professional Recognition Award in Creative Learning recognises the enhanced, significant and sustained enquiry a teacher has undertaken and the development of their professional learning in this area...
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Questions no one knows the answers to - catalysing curiosity
A TED Education lesson by TES curator Chris Anderson that explores how exciting asking unknowable questions can be and how this can push learning and the ability to learn in new directions...
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Creative Quarter
IRISS site exploring creativity and its application to a Social Care setting...
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Data Generator - Creative & Cultural Industries
The Data generator is an online service designed to help individuals and businesses in the creative sector to access the latest industry research and analysis...
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How to Use Distraction to Your Advantage
Online article highlighting that psychologists say that people who’ve had creative success often have “leaky attention,” meaning that when they are concentrating on one thing, other irrelevant information can still seep into their consciousness (information that’s irrelevant to their current task, but potentially very useful longer term)...
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Creative Choices°
Creative Choices is dedicated to helping you develop your career in the creative and cultural industries...
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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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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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Born Creative
In a series of essays Born Creative brings together the experiences of creative practices in early years education, to show the importance of cultures, environments and networks in the enrichment of the early years learning...
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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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Live UnLtd
Live UnLtd backs people aged 11-21 who want to change their world for the better...
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Creative Thinkering
A psychology based blog resurrecting your natural creativity through inspiring techniques and practical examples...
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The Future of Work: Jobs and Skills in 2030
What will jobs in the UK look like in 2030...