Creativity and Education

The Top 12 TED Talks on creativity and education.
http://www.saybrook.edu/forum/creativity/creativity-resources

The Componential Theory of Creativity

The componential theory of creativity is a comprehensive model of the social and psychological components necessary for an individual to produce creative work. The theory is grounded in a definition of creativity as the production of ideas or outcomes that are both novel and appropriate to some goal. In this theory, four components are necessary for any creative response: three components within the individual – domain relevant skills, creativity-relevant processes, and intrinsic task motivation – and one component outside the individual – the social environment in which the individual is working.


More here: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-096.pdf

The Creative Edge on Facebook

A lot of links to creativity research, articles, sites etc can now be found on my facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Creative-Edge/271547596234802
Feel free to go there and LIKE the page and you will have automatic updates on creativity related matters.
Cheers
Wayne

Thinking Creatively: Just Add Milk

Shaking up everyday rituals — even the order of preparing a breakfast dish — may be a way to stimulate innovative thinking.
http://www.psmag.com/culture-society/thinking-creatively-just-add-milk-39972/

How to make a region innovative

To foster economic growth, innovation clusters need to draw on the power of an interrelated “quad” of sectors: public, private, civil, and academic.
http://www.strategy-business.com/article/12103?gko=ee74a

Disruptive Innovation

Harvard Business School professor and the world's most influential management guru according to the Thinkers50, lays out his landmark theory. http://blogs.hbr.org/video/2012/03/disruptive-innovation-explaine.html?referral=00056&cm_mmc=hbd-_-syndication-_-HBSExecEd-_-2010&spMailingID=4062085&spUserID=MjQxOTA0MTU4NTIS1&spJobID=124762181&spReportId=MTI0NzYyMTgxS0

Visual Notetaking

Employees at a range of businesses are being encouraged by their companies to doodle their ideas and draw diagrams to explain complicated concepts to colleagues.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303978104577362402264009714.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLE_Video_Top

Killing Creativity: Why Kids Draw Pictures of Monsters & Adults Don't

Age doesn’t necessarily squander our creative juices, but when we make the leap from elementary school to middle school our worldview becomes more realistic and cynical. The question is: what did Jobs and Spielberg do differently? How do we maintain our naiveté?

http://bigthink.com/ideas/killing-creativity-why-kids-draw-pictures-of-monsters-and-adults-dont?page=all

The Creativity Challenge

“The challenges we currently face are without precedent. More people live on this planet now than at any other time in history. The world's population has doubled in the past 30 years. We're facing an increasing strain on the world's natural resources. Technology is advancing at a headlong rate of speed. It's transforming how people work, think, and connect. It's transforming our cultural values. If you look at the resulting strains on our political and financial institutions, on health care, on education, there really isn't a time in history where you could look back and say, "Well, of course, this is the same thing all over again." It isn't. This is really new, and we're going to need every ounce of ingenuity, imagination, and creativity to confront these problems.” Sir Ken Robinson

A gathering of creatives is planned for April 2013 in Taranaki, New Zealand.

The Creativity Challenge is intended to be a three-day gathering for personal, professional, and organisational creativity — a feast of 120 minute [some longer] - concurrent workshop sessions presented by some of the best creativity leaders in New Zealand and world-wide. The forum will expose participants to a wide range of perspectives on the research and practice of imagination, creativity and innovation. And on top of the scheduled programme, there will be evening salons, pecha-kucha, dialogue sessions, music, dancing, and just plain fun.

Intertested? Contact wayne@future-edge.co.nz

a-creativity: -i:creativity

Creativity loves a crisis. Especially at times of crisis we need creativity. Indeed some of the most creative solutions in human endeavour have come about because of a crisis.

But what do we mean exactly, by ‘Creativity’?

http://blog.davidparrish.com/tshirts_and_suits/2012/04/a-creativity-i-creativity.html

This article is based on a presentation "a-Creativity : i-Creativity" by David Parrish at TEDxNapoli on 14 April 2012.