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“An inherent link seems to exist between creativity and science and mathematics education...”
—Creative Little Scientists, EU Funded Research Project
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Creativity Toybox #10 - how many ways to catch a bear?
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Embracing Failure: Building a Growth Mindset Through the Arts
Edutopia article on how to teach your students the recipe for success: taking risks, making mistakes, and integrating critical feedback...
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Creativity Toybox - Introduction
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Information is Beautiful
A blog dedicated to distilling the world’s data, information and knowledge into beautiful, interesting and, above all, useful visualizations, infographics and diagrams...
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Creativity Toybox #7 - change as many things as possible about your day
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Knot your average sheep...
Popularising mathematics the ovine way...
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Creativity Toybox #4 - a million metaphors
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Creativity Toybox #5 - making the boring interesting
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“True scientific progress relies as much on an excellent specific education as on creativity and an ability to think and venture beyond what appears to be correct and reasonable...”
—Philipp Kukura, Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Oxford
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Creativity Toybox #11 - what do a mouse and a refrigerator have in common?
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Creativity Across Learning Presentation - as delivered at the NCLN Development Day November 2019
Leading the audience through a process of self-reflection and information sharing this Powerpoint presentation challenges the myths and preconceptions around creativity skills, explores the psychology and research, and Scotland's own journey in education to defining creativity skills and developing activities and tools that support them in being embedded in learning, teaching and planning...
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Creativity Toybox #1 - creative rock, paper, scissors
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Creativity Toybox #9 - not a bin
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Creativity Toybox #18 - rename the whole world
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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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“Science and arts are not an either/or...”
—Creative Industries Federation
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“We work a lot with the arts at the observatory, in many ways...”
—Dan Hillier, Edinburgh Observatory
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Rainstorms and Symphonies: Performing Arts Bring Abstract Concepts to Life
Edutopia article on what happens when early elementary teachers integrate music and theatre - student learning improves in reading, math, and science as they become better critical thinkers and problem solvers...
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Creativity Toybox #20 - imagine the impossible