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Quotes
“The global labour market in 2030 is likely to be highly competitive...”
—The Future of Work: Jobs and Skills in 2030 (UKCES)
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Research and Policy
Creative Little Scientists
Creative Little Scientists aims to bring together creativity and science and mathematics in preschool and first years of primary education (up to the age of eight)...
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Research and Policy
5 Creativity Myths You Probably Believe
Misconceptions cloak creativity in mystique and they foster elitism—the idea that the potential for innovation and imagination is a rare gift enjoyed by only a select few creative types...
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Research and Policy
Creative Thinkering
A psychology based blog resurrecting your natural creativity through inspiring techniques and practical examples...
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Research and Policy
Understanding How to Frame Your Creative Expertise
Again and again I see talented people with ideas they want to share – books they want to write, talks they want to give, businesses they want to launch – holding back because they think they "don't know enough" about their topic...
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Research and Policy
Paul Collard's slides from the Attaining Creative Solutions event
Paul Collard from Culture, Creativity and Education brought his international experience and unique interpretation of the PISA statistics to bear on the attainment and equality issue here in Scotland as part of the Attaining Creative Solutions event in Edinburgh (June 2015) as part of the National Creative Learning Network annual events and the Emporium of Dangerous Ideas...
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Online Teaching Tools
Digital Makers
A programme to encourage and enable a generation of young people to create rather than simply consume technology, including the Digital Makers Fund to support innovators with bright ideas for significantly increasing the number of young people who participate in digital making...
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Research and Policy
Artists and teachers resource
This ArtWorks Scotland resource has been developed for teachers and artists looking to embed creativity into school plans, offering relevant policy, evaluation and funding information, tips on planning together and case studies from artists and teachers who have worked in partnership...
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Quotes
“Creativity is a new: purpose, process, procedure, thought, action, style, content...”
—Professor George G. Youngson, Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital
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Research and Policy
Deliberate Practice?
How do you deliberately practice in the creative field where success is often external, unpredictable, and uncontrollable...
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Quotes
“It goes far beyond the traditional world of art and music...”
—Shantanu Narayen, Adobe President and CEO
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Research and Policy
The Top 5 Qualities of Productive Creatives (And How to Identify Them!)
How do we identify the qualities that add up to creativity...
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Quotes
“I want us all to think about new and creative ways to … encourage young people to create and build and invent — to be makers of things, not just consumers of things...”
—Barack Obama, U.S. President
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Online Teaching Tools
Improving Gender Balance in Coding Clubs
A toolkit for encouraging gender balance that can be used to inform all voluntary learning experiences, clubs and Community Learning and Development...
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Research and Policy
99 Percent
99% is a think tank that focuses on what happens after inspiration - researching the forces that truly push ideas forward...
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Research and Policy
The Glow Professional Learning Community for Creativity
Engage in conversation around creativity with educators right across Scotland by using the #creativity hashtag in the National Professional Learning Community...
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Online Teaching Tools
TED - The Creative Spark
Over 300 filmed talks on a broad range of creative themes by some of the leading speakers and innovators...
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Quotes
“Infants are extreme explorers; they possess qualities that are often lost by adulthood: curiosity, novelty seeking, always learning (and adapting) without much hesitation, and perhaps most importantly, not being afraid of failing...”
—Rachel Wu - Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, New York
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Online Teaching Tools
Young Engineers and Science Clubs
A network of over 430 science, engineering and technology clubs throughout Scotland, with a membership of more than 5,000 young people engaging in practical hands-on science and engineering activities to enthuse them to pursue a career in science...
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Online Teaching Tools
Five top tips to run a successful design workshop
Based on the information in seperate guides for teaching design in primary and secondary settings, this article summarises the top five tips that will help to inform the quality of teaching when leading a design workshop, across all levels and settings...