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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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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 #18 - rename the whole world
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Creativity Toybox #9 - not a bin
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Creativity Toybox #13 - asking difficult questions
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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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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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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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Creativity Toybox #20 - imagine the impossible