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Creative Curriculum Fund
The purpose of this fund was to support secondary schools to embed creativity across their thinking, behaviours and systems for the long-term benefits to learners, whilst tackling a current curriculum challenge specific to the individual school...
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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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Creativity in S.T.E.M. at Ratho Primary School
Presentation by P6 learners from Ratho Primary School, Edinburgh, explained their work as primary STEM Leaders before leading the delegates through a S...
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“Think of creativity as applied imagination...”
—The Element, 2009 by Ken Robinson
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“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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“Using our imagination, being ourselves, expressing our opinions - creativity challenges and develops the mind...”
—macrobert Young Consultant
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“Creativity...”
—D.W. Winnicott
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“Creativity is the combined application of intelligence and imagination...”
—Duncan Jones, Association for Scottish Literary Studies
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What is Graphic Design Poster Competition
A collection of posters on Flickr submitted to a contest: come up with something creative or witty that visualises the question 'What is Graphic Design...
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Dè th’ann an sgilean cruthachail?
Gaelic translation of the Creativity Skills poster...
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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 is paradoxical...”
—Michael Michalko
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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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“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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“Creativity is not something gifted to the few...”
—Ken Edwards, Quality Improvement Officer, Angus Council
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“The collections of Scotland's museums and galleries are a vital resource for education...”
—Helena Gillis, Museums Galleries Scotland
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“I have to reflect my background as a son of the manse; creation is a phrase that appears often in the Bible...”
—Ian Ritchie