M TH EREATIVE SPIRIT Creativity and Innovation Critical Collaboration Creativity is the ability to come up with ideas that are original and useful It involves thinking in ways that are not usual or expected using your imagination and connecting ideas and objects in new ways Getting creative means looking at problems from all angles asking questions and coming up with unique solutions thinking Creavity Communication Innovation is the act of creating something new by making improvements or changes to a product or process in order to solve a problem It involves putting creative ideas into action and trying new approaches to get things done Creativity and innovation are closely linked Innovators need creative ideas to put in motion and innovations from paintbrushes to smartphones allow people to express their
Are You a Creative Genius What do you know about creativity and innovation The following are some things you may have heard or thought Do you agree with them None of statements are true these of course The following statements paint a better picture of creativity and innovation today Creativity is useful in all areas of life including school home work and when you pursue your interests Creativity is only useful for producing paintings music and other types of art Innovative people are everywhere in all walks of life and doing all sorts of jobs You can recognize innovators by their crazy hair and lab coats Everything that can be invented has already been invented There is no end to innovation New things are constantly being created Creativity is a skill that you can learn practice and improve You are either born Creative or you never will be If you can dream it you can do it J 21st Century Skills Our digitally interconnected world is always changing and evolving To keep up and be successful we have to be lifelong learners which means that we must be constantly learning how to think in new and innovative ways The Partnership for 21st Century Learning is an organization that has identified four essential skills that students need to build to achieve their goals at school at work and in their personal lives They are the 4Cs communication collaboration and critical thinking Each skill is important on its own but combining the four together in our everyday lives is the key to success in a 21st century world Walt Disney who called the creative people who designed his theme parks imagineers creativity J
Born This Way People are creative by nature As a toddler you may have built upside down cities made up crazy dances colored outside the lines or expressed yourself in other creative ways Later you learned how to follow rules and instructions You may have been told that there was only one right answer to a problem You may have stifled your creative impulses to make friends and get good grades Before long you were probably building cities the right way up dancing the way all your friends do and coloring inside the lines Why Be Creative to travel long distances quickly so the Wright brothers invented the airplane Today people You might think that creativity is only use creative thinking skills in all aspects of important to people such as artists or writers their lives at home school work and in but people use creative thinking skills to social settings and to solve 21st century meet important needs and solve all kinds problems that don't always have simple of complex problems In the past creative solutions Scientists search for cures to the thinkers came up with ideas that solved common cold and rare diseases Engineers straightforward problems and had clear design new technologies that improve our goals People needed a way of harnessing lives Students make music videos and 3D electricity for light so Thomas Edison models and come up with creative excuses developed the lightbulb There was no way for why their homework is not done o76 75 Creativity is valuable to society Creativity is important personally In a survey of 1 000 American adults three quarters felt that creativity was valuable and important
to Express Yourself offer interpretations of the world around them They design creative cakes and outrageous People also use creativity to express their outfits and innovative buildings to show the thoughts and feelings and to connect with world their unique style Sometimes this others They paint pictures write poems and means that you have to unlearn the rules make music that show how they feel and and think outside the box Every child is an artist Tt The problem is how to make remain an artist own once he grows up Pablo Picasso Your How do you think your own creativity compares to the results shown in this study Explain why you are more or less creative now than when you were five years old Creative Confuses B8 Research shows that creativity peaks at the age of five In one study 1 600 five year old children were given a NASA creativity test a test used to find innovative scientists and engineers Nearly all the children scored as creative geniuses The same children were tested at the ages of 10 and 15 and their scores dropped dramatically Only two percent of the 280 000 adults tested scored at the creative genius level Percentage of creative geniuses 12 5 year olds 10 year olds 15 year olds Adults
