To Scaffold Creative Thinking

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To Scaffold Creative Thinking

• Bernie Dodge, San Diego State University

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Points

• Creative problem solving is important
• We dont support it enough
• There are ways to do it better

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According to Forrester Research 1 in 9 jobs in
the US information technology industry will move
overseas by 2010.
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• To flourish in this age, we'll need to supplement
  our well-developed high tech abilities with
  aptitudes like....

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• the ability to create artistic and emotional
  beauty,
• to detect patterns and opportunities,
• to craft a satisfying narrative, and
• to come up with inventions the world didn't know
  it was missing.

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Lesson Design
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Brainstorming

• Name a leader and recorder
• Define the topic being brainstormed
• Set rules everyone contributes, respect the
  leader, no answers are bad, go for quantity, all
  answers recorded
• Set a time limit and stop when you get there
• Go through the list and pick out the promising
  ideas

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IdentifyProblem
Generate Solutions
Pick a Solution
Evaluate Result
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ExerciseWrite a Short Skit
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Melioration

• Ability to make combinations of disparate ideas
• A valuable skill for an information society
• Not explicitly taught in schools
• Described by David Passig, Bar-Ilan University

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Exercise

• One side of the room, generate a list of
  concepts, ideas about how animals hold on to
  things
• The other side, generate a list of concepts about
  small things that use electricity
• Then Ill give you a problem

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Points

• Creative problem solving is important
• We dont support it enough
• There are ways to do it better

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to Scaffold Creative Thinking

• Bernie Dodge, San Diego State University

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• Thanks to these Flickr members
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