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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
The Space
The Space is a new way to access and experience all of the arts – for free...
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Online Teaching Tools
Paint like Jackson Pollock
Voted amongst the top 50 "coolest websites" by TIME Magazine - try your hand at painting like Jackson Pollock...
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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
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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Research and Policy
The Future of Jobs Report 2020 - World Economic Forum
The Future of Jobs report maps the jobs and skills of the future, tracking the pace of change...
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Online Teaching Tools
Knot your average sheep...
Popularising mathematics the ovine way...
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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
Languages on Screen
An exciting new educational resource that puts French, German, Spanish and Italian - and soon Gaelic - short films online for free download and use in schools across Scotland...
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Research and Policy
RSA: Giving Schools the Power to Create - Developing creative capacities in learners and teachers
A summary paper on how schools can best develop pupils’ creative capacities by the RSA...
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Research and Policy
Film Education
Film Education is a charity supported by the UK film industry that promotes and supports the use of film within the curriculum...
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Online Teaching Tools
Creative Thinking and Goal Setting - SCQF Level 5 (intermediate 2) SQA qualification
This Unit is aimed at developing: Creative thinking Goal setting Critical thinking, planning and organising, reviewing and evaluating...
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Online Teaching Tools
MoovBank
Powered by BalletBoyz – the internationally acclaimed dance company of stage, TV, and pioneers of innovative dance education projects...
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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
Marks on the Landscape
An interdisciplinary creative learning and teaching resource based around Fife Earth, an ambitious land regeneration project...
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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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Online Teaching Tools
Digital Makers
A programme to encourage and enable a generation of young people to create rather than simply consume technology, including the Digital Makers Fund to support innovators with bright ideas for significantly increasing the number of young people who participate in digital making...
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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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Online Teaching Tools
Creative Pathways - Careers within Dundee's creative sector
The ‘Creative Pathways’ brochure developed by Dundee City provides anyone interested in working in the creative industries sector with all the information required to consider the wide variety of jobs that exist within it...
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Research and Policy
Creative Thinkering
A psychology based blog resurrecting your natural creativity through inspiring techniques and practical examples...