Yo Yo Kids Creativity
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“Help me be more CREATIV E.... I like to have my Yo Yo back, please?” Re-ignite Your Passion to teach about Creativity and to teach Creatively
Transcript of Yo Yo Kids Creativity
“Help me be more
CREATIVE.... I like to have my Yo Yo back, please?”
Re-ignite Your Passion to teach about Creativity and to teach Creatively
Torrance and Safter (1990)
People prefer to learn creatively- by exploring, questioning, manipulating,
rearranging things, testing and modifying, listening, looking, feeling - and then thinking
about it –incubating.
The Four Ps of Creativity
IDEA BOXCombining different variations
to create new story ideas
STATION 1
Story Re-Creation
Story Re-Creation with Idea Box
Example: Nim’s Island
Example: Nim’s Island 2
SCAMPERMnemonic device created by Bob Eberle (1971) to
supplement training in basic rules of Brainstorming
STATION 2
Design a Yo-Yo that will be very popular with kids in the
year 2020Work in groups of 4 - 5
TASK:
Design a Yo-Yo that will be very popular with kids in the year 2020
Divergent Spark Plug SCAMPER
Substitute Combine Adapt Modify Put to other uses Eliminate Re-arrange
SCAMPER : Substitute? Who else instead? What else instead? What other
material? What other
process? What other place? What other groups?
SCAMPER : Combine? Blend? Assortment? Combine units? Combine purposes? Combine appeals? Combine ideas? Combine concepts?
SCAMPER : Adapt? What else is like
this? What other ideas
does it suggest? Does the past offer
a parallel?
SCAMPER : Modify? New twist? Modify meaning? Modify colour? Modify motion? Modify sound? Modify smell? Modify form? Modify shape?
SCAMPER : Put to Other Uses? New ways to use as
it is? Other uses if
modified? Other places to
use? Other people to
reach?
SCAMPER : Eliminate? Minify? Subtract? Condensed? Lower? Shorter? Lighter? Streamline? Split up?
SCAMPER : Rearrange? Interchange
components? Other patterns/
rearrangements? Other layout? Other sequence? Transpose cause
and effect? Turn inside out?
Forced ConnectionsIndividual Ideation to Get Your Mental
Wheel Turning
STATION 2
Visual Connection with a Yo Yo
Forced ConnectionWhen you look at/
play with/ smell/ listen to your Yo-Yo, what ideas do you get for solving the following problems?
Observe & Dot ‘judgmental’ participants ◦ Verbal comments &
observable behaviors
Reptile’s Response to something new:◦ Run from it!◦ Attack it!◦ Eat it!
Special mission:Crocodile Hunters
Divergent Thinking Rules
Torrance Incubation Model
Torrance Metaphors: Looking Twice
Defer judgment Keep open to new
information and insights
Search for more information
Evaluate and re-evaluate information
Torrance Metaphors: Digging Deeper Get beyond the surface
to find out what was hidden
Diagnose difficulties Integrate all available
information Check information
against hunches Synthesize diverse kinds
of information Elaborate and diverge
Torrance Metaphors: Listening / Talking to a Cat Let presented information
"talk to you" and then “talk back” to the information
Read your own feelings in response
Recognize that mistakes will be made
Make guesses, check, correct, reexamine, discard unpromising solutions, refine, and make the best solutions better
