2014May01

= #MYPChat Approaches to Learning: Creative Thinking Skills Cluster = = Following the chat, tweets __ using the #MYPChat hashtag __ will be Storified below. =

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=== Welcome! Let us know who you are, your role and if it's your first time. What's your favourite metaphor or analogy? #MYPChat #CreativeThinking ===
 * If you are joining #MYPChat, please use the hashtag in your replies.
 * All #MYPChat resources & an archive of the discussion will be posted on mypchat.wikispaces.com
 * Please continue the conversations beyond the chat with links and resources on #MYPChat

**Topic Questions** **We'll use the Q1/A1 format in the chat, so please let us know which question you're referring to with A1, A2 etc. The moderator will try to keep up with the questions.** The #CreativeThinking Cluster of ATTL includes skills in knowledge creation, application, prediction, adaptation, imagination. Q1. What is #CreativeThinking? What is it NOT? #MYPChat Q2. How do you try to encourage #CreativeThinking in your own classes? #MYPChat Q3. How can we help students "consider multiple alternatives" in their #CreativeThinking? #MYPChat Q4. How can we overcome stereotypes in ourselves & colleagues with regard to subjects & #CreativeThinking? #MYPChat Q5. Free discussion and sharing experience/resources with the Creative Thinking Cluster. #MYPChat

How can students be creative?
//Generating novel ideas and considering new perspectives // // From Planners to Practices: ATL resources wikispace //
 * Use brainstorming and visual diagrams to generate new ideas and inquiries
 * Consider multiple alternatives, including those that might be unlikely or impossible
 * Create novel solutions to authentic problems
 * Make unexpected or unusual connections between objects and/or ideas
 * Design improvements to existing machines, media and technologies
 * Design new machines, media and technologies
 * Make guesses, ask “what if” questions and generate testable hypotheses
 * Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products or processes
 * Create original works and ideas; use existing works and ideas in new ways
 * Practise flexible thinking—develop multiple opposing, contradictory and complementary arguments
 * Practise visible thinking strategies and techniques
 * Generate metaphors and analogies


 * Resources: **
 * **MYP: From Principles to Practice (pre-publication), pages 90 onwards.**
 * **OCC link: pre-pub FPIP**
 * ATTL Wikispace, Creative Thinking Cluster: // ATL resources wikispace //
 * **If this is OK'd as fair use, we can use the wikispace to develop a community resource for teaching and mapping the Approaches to Teaching and Learning.**


 * From around the internet:**
 * Yes, you can teach #CreativeThinking, on @edutopia. @http://www.edutopia.org/blog/you-can-teach-assess-creativity-andrew-miller #MYPChat
 * Teaching Creative Thinking Skills (pdf), ELTS Journal. @http://is.gd/eltscreativethinking #MYPChat
 * Glencoe Entrepeneuriship: Games to teach #CreativeThinking http://www.glencoe.com/sec/busadmin/entre/teacher/creative/ #MYPChat
 * ReallyRachel's Pinterest: #CreativeThinking & #CriticalThinking @https://www.pinterest.com/reallyrachel/creative-and-critical-thinking-activities-and-idea/ #MYPChat
 * Collection of @TEDTalks with the #Creativity #CreativeThinking tag: @http://www.ted.com/topics/creativity #MYPChat
 * Psychology Today's #CreativeThinking links @http://www.psychologytoday.com/topics/creativity #MYPChat
 * Collection of #CreativeThinking problem-solving tools from @Mind_Tools @http://www.mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_CT.htm #MYPChat
 * List of games from the TV show "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" for improvisation, #CreativeThinking @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_from_Whose_Line_Is_It_Anyway%3F #MYPChat

Each skills cluster has a set of defined skills that can be developed.
 * Example: (Source: ****OCC link: pre-pub FPIP)**

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