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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
Creativity, Culture & Education
Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE) is a UK-based charity, which works internationally to unlock the creativity of young people in and out of formal education...
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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
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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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
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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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
Skills Investment Plan for Scotland’s Creative Industries sector
The influence and impact that the Creative Industries sector has on Scotland – both economically and culturally – is deep and varied...
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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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Quotes
“Using our imagination, being ourselves, expressing our opinions - creativity challenges and develops the mind...”
—macrobert Young Consultant
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Research and Policy
Creativity: A Choice, a Gift, and a Mission
Edutopia article by Karine Veldhoen on the pleasures and benefits of being creative and how it applies to educators...
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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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Online Teaching Tools
Live UnLtd
Live UnLtd backs people aged 11-21 who want to change their world for the better...
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Online Teaching Tools
BBC Blast - Creating a career
Listen to Blast's three-part audio programme on turning your hobby into a business...
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Research and Policy
Creative Thinkering
A psychology based blog resurrecting your natural creativity through inspiring techniques and practical examples...
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Research and Policy
7 skills your child needs to survive the changing world of work
In his book The Global Achievement Gap, Wagner identifies seven core competencies every child needs in order to survive in the coming world of work: 1...
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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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Quotes
“The high-skilled minority (characterised by their creativity, analytical and problem solving capabilities and communication skills) will have strong bargaining power in the labour market, whilst the low-skilled will bear the brunt of the drive for flexibility and cost reduction...”
—The Future of Work: Jobs and Skills in 2030 (UKCES)
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Research and Policy
Inequality kills innovation and entrepreneurship
"Our study of 21 OECD countries over more than a 100 years shows income inequality actually restricts people from earning more, educating themselves and becoming entrepreneurs...