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Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge

From Kim's blog: http://kamworkinprogress.blogspot.com/

An article by Punya Mishra and Matthew J. Koehler

Creativity: the future for tomorrow's schools?

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66

After watching this very inspiring video, I feel that creativity is a necessary skill that students need to succeed in today's world, especially in the job force. Let's open this up for discussion:

How does evaluation/assessment enhance or limit creativity? How can it do either?

What is the first step in this process of reforming education to include a deeper focus on creativity and outside-of-the-box thinking?

What are our schools doing specifically that "educate" or stifle the creativity out of us?

How can we become more like children and understand their creative ways?

I have collected these quotes from various websites. I'm sorry I didn't reference them, but if I stumble across them again I will.

A. A. Milne:

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Abraham Maslow:

The key question isn’t "What fosters creativity?" But it is why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

Albert Einstein:

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Albert Einstein:

Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein:

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Arthur Koestler:

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Beatrix Potter:

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Buckminster Fuller:

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

Buckminster Fuller:

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Carl Sagan:

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

Carl Sagan:

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

Edward de Bono:

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

Edwin Land:

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Erich Fromm:

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Erich Fromm:

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

Franklin D. Roosevelt:

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Georg C. Lichtenberg:

Eveyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together.

Henry David Thoreau:

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.

Linus Pauling:

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

Linus Pauling:

The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas.

Margaret J. Wheatley:

The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity.

Marie Antoinette:

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Martin Luther King Jr.:

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Monica Baldwin:

The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.

Niels Bohr:

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

Nietzsche:

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

Oscar Levant:

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Pablo Picasso:

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .

Ray Bradbury:

Life is "trying things to see if they work."

Rita Mae Brown:

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

Rollo May:

Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

Saul Steinberg:

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Theodore Adorno:

A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.

Unknown:

[C]reative ability and personal responsibility are strongest when the mind is free from supernatural belief and operates in an atmosphere of freedom and democracy.

Victor Hugo:

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

Virginia Woolf:

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Virginia Woolf:

It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.

William Golding:

Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

William James:

Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

10 ways to boost creativity - from another website

1.	Listen to music by Johann Sebastian Bach. If Bach doesn't make you more creative, you should probably see your doctor - or your brain surgeon if you are also troubled by headaches, hallucinations or strange urges in the middle of the night.

2.	Brainstorm. If properly carried out, brainstorming can help you not only come up with sacks full of new ideas, but can help you decide which is best. Click here for more information on brainstorming.
3.	Always carry a small notebook and a pen or pencil around with you. That way, if you are struck by an idea, you can quickly note it down. Upon rereading your notes, you may discover about 90% of your ideas are daft. Don't worry, that's normal. What's important are the 10% that are brilliant.
4.	If you're stuck for an idea, open a dictionary, randomly select a word and then try to formulate ideas incorporating this word. You'd be surprised how well this works. The concept is based on a simple but little known truth: freedom inhibits creativity. There are nothing like restrictions to get you thinking.
5.	Define your problem. Grab a sheet of paper, electronic notebook, computer or whatever you use to make notes, and define your problem in detail. You'll probably find ideas positively spewing out once you've done this.
6.	If you can't think, go for a walk. A change of atmosphere is good for you and gentle exercise helps shake up the brain cells.
7.	Don't watch TV. Experiments performed by the JPB Creative Laboratory show that watching TV causes your brain to slowly trickle out your ears and/or nose. It's not pretty, but it happens.
8.	Don't do drugs. People on drugs think they are creative. To everyone else, they seem like people on drugs.
9.	Read as much as you can about everything possible. Books exercise your brain, provide inspiration and fill you with information that allows you to make creative connections easily.
10.	Exercise your brain. Brains, like bodies, need exercise to keep fit. If you don't exercise your brain, it will get flabby and useless. Exercise your brain by reading a lot (see above), talking to clever people and disagreeing with people - arguing can be a terrific way to give your brain cells a workout. But note, arguing about politics or film directors is good for you; bickering over who should clean the dishes is not.