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Everything is Creative: online infographic and meme maker
Everything Is creative is an online digital poster/meme/infographic making tool that offers educators the capacity to do the following: • Build creativity infographics that relate creativity skills directly to their own practice, learners, subjects and themes...
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Creative Teaching and Learning Graphic Equaliser Tool
The Graphic Equaliser was created by Education Scotland as an interactive tool for educators to explore and assess how creative the learning experience and teaching is...
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“An inherent link seems to exist between creativity and science and mathematics education...”
—Creative Little Scientists, EU Funded Research Project
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Silver of the Stars creative learning resource
An online tool that uses Scotland’s most exciting contemporary collection of silver, Silver of the Stars, as the inspiration for creative learning...
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Embracing Failure: Building a Growth Mindset Through the Arts
Edutopia article on how to teach your students the recipe for success: taking risks, making mistakes, and integrating critical feedback...
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Quotes
“Think of creativity as applied imagination...”
—The Element, 2009 by Ken Robinson
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Career Education Standard 3-18: Learning Resource 5 Introduction to Creativity Skills
This is one of a suite of learning resources which provides support to develop practice related to the Career Education Standard (CES)...
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Quotes
“I believe Scotland stands on the threshold of becoming a world leader in creativity, if, and only if, the education sector embraces the challenge of creativity across the curriculum to realize the Curriculum for Excellence...”
—Eric Booth, international creative learning consultant and author of The Everyday Work of Art
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Dè th’ann an sgilean cruthachail?
Gaelic translation of the Creativity Skills poster...
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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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Reverse Thinking: Creative Learning Approach - Asking Students to Plan Bad Behavior
Getting students to think about behaving badly helps them arrive at positive norms—and such reverse thinking may work in other situations as well...
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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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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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Questions no one knows the answers to - catalysing curiosity
A TED Education lesson by TES curator Chris Anderson that explores how exciting asking unknowable questions can be and how this can push learning and the ability to learn in new directions...
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Creative Thinking and Goal Setting - SCQF Level 5 (intermediate 2) SQA qualification
This Unit is aimed at developing: Creative thinking Goal setting Critical thinking, planning and organising, reviewing and evaluating...
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Compendium of Creative Problem Solving Methods
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“We are committed to increasing the quantity and quality of opportunity for people of all ages to learn through engagement with the arts, screen and creative industries...”
—Unlocking Potential Embracing Ambition - Creative Scotland's 10 Year Plan
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Are we offering a creative curriculum? - Activities
Presentation with the activities to accompany the worksheets used at the National Creative Learning Network annual event: Are We Offering a Creative Curriculum...
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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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“The high-skilled minority (characterised by their creativity, analytical and problem solving capabilities and communication skills) will have strong bargaining power in the labour market, whilst the low-skilled will bear the brunt of the drive for flexibility and cost reduction...”
—The Future of Work: Jobs and Skills in 2030 (UKCES)