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Do schools kill creativity?

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Here are the slides from the recent parent learning community workshop:Creativity in Schools. Beginning with defining, 'Creativity', participants engaged with the hugely inspiring TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson. The succeeding workshop encouraged further dialogue and collaboration across the whole school community including clay avatar modeling and spontaneous performance and choreography by grade 6 students.

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Do schools kill creativity?

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What is creativity?

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“Conformity is the worst enemy of creativity. Anyone who is unable to take risks cannot be creative.”

— Oliviero Toscani

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Creativity is to be free in mind-the freedom to try new ideas and not always the same as previously

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Creativity is to think of something, to make something up in your mind

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Creativity is to invent things- it's thinking skills, brainstorming, sometimes can be

done alone or sometimes in a group

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Creativity is original spontaneity

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Creativity is to think outside the square, opening your eyes, to take risks

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Creativity is to have many idea

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Creativity is multiple ways of doing things

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Creativity is being an artist, not to give up, to put more fantasy into something

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Creativity is making a new trick, making new rule, bending the rules

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Creativity is not thinking and expressing your feelings

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Creativity is the individual experience and interpretation of his/her environment

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Creativity is putting yourself outside you body

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Creativity is building an idea without constraint

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Creativity is making something new and inventive that has the power to change the world

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Sir Ken Robinson, ‘Do schools kill creativity?

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill

_creativity.html

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Student led conferences A celebration of creativity

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It looks like a pipe cleaner but it's a...

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Learning Engagement

Collaborate together to create your own 'flying classroom'

Take a photograph with your handy

Email to [email protected]

or

Post it @EyeEm or tweet it #creativity

How we express ourselveshttp://bmsoneproject2013.tumblr.com/

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Thank you Continue the discussion

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