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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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“An inherent link seems to exist between creativity and science and mathematics education...”
—Creative Little Scientists, EU Funded Research Project
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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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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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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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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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“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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Information is Beautiful
A blog dedicated to distilling the world’s data, information and knowledge into beautiful, interesting and, above all, useful visualizations, infographics and diagrams...
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Knot your average sheep...
Popularising mathematics the ovine way...
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Quotes
“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)
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“We work a lot with the arts at the observatory, in many ways...”
—Dan Hillier, Edinburgh Observatory
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“The government and the Cultural and Creative Industries need to take a united and coherent approach that guarantees equal access for everyone to a rich cultural education and the opportunity to live a creative life...”
—Enriching Britain: Culture, Creativity and Growth - The Warwick Commission
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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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Compendium of Creative Problem Solving Methods
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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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Live UnLtd
Live UnLtd backs people aged 11-21 who want to change their world for the better...
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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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Quotes
“It goes far beyond the traditional world of art and music...”
—Shantanu Narayen, Adobe President and CEO
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App smashing for teachers: The power of app cross-pollination
TED Education article on stringing multiple tablet apps together to create, synthesise and adapt...