Molly Sanders Clauss

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Ignite Your Everyday Creativity

194 calificaciones

The State University of New York

Ignite Your Everyday Creativity

194 calificaciones

Creativity is an essential skill for the 21st Century that is innate in all people and can be nurtured. We constantly need new and better ideas for almost every aspect of our professional and personal lives. The goal of this course is to help you recognize, develop and act upon the creativity that you already possess. We will accomplish this using three methods: b aware, b inspired, and b creative. Upon completion of this course participants will: Recognize the inherent creativity in yourself and others. Identify characteristics of a creative person that relate to yourself. Develop creative problem solving skills using the basic elements of the creative process. Examine qualities of a creative environment in real world settings. Evaluate an idea using the creative product criteria.

De la lección

Putting Ideas into Context

In this module, we will be featuring the skill "Put Ideas into Context". This skill is about putting smaller parts or experiences into a larger framework, or putting things together in meaningful ways. This is the perfect skill with which to bring our MOOC to a close. During this module, and as you continue on with your Everyday Creativity experiences, we would like you to think about everything that you have learned throughout this course. Try to apply the lessons to your everyday life. Remember, the learning doesn't end with this course! Creativity is a skill that can be constantly developed -- all you have to do is put what you've learned into context! As you go through this module's lessons, we would like you to consider the following things: * How might you apply what you have learned in this course to your everyday life?* When deliberately employing this skill, do you feel more creative? We encourage you to keep this description handy, as we will be asking you to apply this skill throughout the module.Ready? Let's get started!

Conoce a los instructores

Dr. Cyndi Burnett
Associate Professor
Creative Studies
Dr. John F Cabra
Associate Professor
Creative Studies

[MUSIC]

A tough challenge that I was faced with was in the beginning of the school year,

when we have 30 kids that are all new to each other and new to the school,

we wanna somehow do some team building.

But school and schedules and things don't always allow for that.

So that was the challenge, to try to come up with some team building.

Well a great thing about Elmwood Franklin is that we have a lot

of creative license here in the things that we we want to do.

And so, one day I was walking down the hall, and saw that there were all

kinds of new chairs that were being delivered to the upper school.

And each chair came in its own humongous box, and

so they were piling up all the boxes in the halls, and

I knew right away that we needed those boxes in prep.

I didn't know what we were going to do with them yet,

but I knew that the boxes could help us in some way with getting all

the children together to work on a project.

Well, we use the approach at Elmwood Franklin with the young children,

which is a philosophy where the children are the ones that come up with the ideas

themselves.

We don't dictate to them the kinds of projects that they want to work on.

We do reading, we do math, they're getting their academics all morning long.

Then in the afternoon, it's their time.

And so by using that philosophy, the children get to come

up with their own ideas, they're inspired by their own ideas.

And we're here to foster what they're doing, any way we can.

We'll give them the materials that they want,

we'll give them the time that they need.

We'll give them the space, whether we're here in the atelier or

whether we're in the classroom.

They get to choose what they want to do, so they're very inspired.

And they'll work at their own pace for

however long it takes to finish their own product.

The school will support us in whatever creative endeavors

we would like to be taking on.

There's a fund that we can make use of if we want

to do a summer experience where we want to learn about something new and

then bring that back to our classroom this year.

That's been available to us for years.

And also, if we go to our administration and say I'd really like to pursue this

with the children, they have this really great idea.

We need a field trip.

We need these materials.

Then we can access that, they're very supportive of us.

In the beginning,

the kids had all different kinds of ideas what they wanted to turn them into.

And we had, just due to space limitations, we had about six or

seven of these huge, like four by four boxes.

And, but there were 30 children, and so

we didn't want it to turn into a situation where they were going to be arguing.

We wanted it to be a positive experience.

So we figured the best thing to do in the beginning was to let them just start

decorating them, painting them, kinda get a feel for how big they are.

And then as conversation went forward with them,

they then started to unite on the kinds of things they wanted to turn them into.

But it was a problem in the beginning because with these enormous boxes,

we only have one room that has linoleum.

So we ended taking all the boxes outside and all the children and

put the boxes all over the grass, and just let them have at it.

And they went home covered in paint that day.

But it was such a positive experience because every child,

the shy ones, the more active ones.

They were all working together on a common theme,

which was let's get these boxes painted.

So as they worked, and as you know, I think, I'm this way.

If you put an activity in front of me and I can just sort of do my own thing and

paint, and, you get lots of interesting conversation that way.

As opposed to sitting down first and deciding what we're going to do.

We give them an activity to spur the conversation, and

then the ideas grew out of that.

The outcome was creative,

because it was the children's idea of what they wanted to do.

We provided the materials, but they came up with their own outcome.

Their outcome was, it's a helicopter, it's a house, it's a boat, it's a whatever.

Our outcome was we've created teamwork.

We've created some bonding.

We created a team of children organically, just over cardboard boxes.

If I had three wishes to grant to increase people's creativity,

it would be people being less judgmental about other people's ideas,

people having less inhibition

with themselves and their own creative outcomes.

And then I think people not being so concerned about the product, and

just enjoying the process.

And not be quite so, product driven.

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