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Research and Policy
Coffitivity
A team of researchers, led by Ravi Mehta at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign tested the effects of varying levels of noise on participants’ creative thinking skills, proving that moderately loud background noise boosts creative thinking...
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Research and Policy
The Creativity Post
The Creativity Post is a non-profit committed to sharing the very best content on creativity, in all of its forms: from scientific discovery to philosophical debate, from entrepreneurial ventures to educational reform...
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Quotes
“The sciences develop enquiring minds and nurture learners’ natural curiosity, imagination and creativity...”
—CfE Briefing 15 - Sciences for all
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Quotes
“Using our imagination, being ourselves, expressing our opinions - creativity challenges and develops the mind...”
—macrobert Young Consultant
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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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Online Teaching Tools
App smashing for teachers: The power of app cross-pollination
TED Education article on stringing multiple tablet apps together to create, synthesise and adapt...
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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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Videos
The Source of Creativity - TED Radio Hour
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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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Quotes
“Science and arts are not an either/or...”
—Creative Industries Federation
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Videos
Cultures of Creativity, nurturing creative mindsets
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Research and Policy
Radio #EDUtalk: Creative Learning
Stephen Bullock and Julia Fenby, development officers with Education Scotland, talk about Creative Learning...
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Online Teaching Tools
What is Graphic Design Poster Competition
A collection of posters on Flickr submitted to a contest: come up with something creative or witty that visualises the question 'What is Graphic Design...
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Online Teaching Tools
Marks on the Landscape
An interdisciplinary creative learning and teaching resource based around Fife Earth, an ambitious land regeneration project...
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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
Born Creative
In a series of essays Born Creative brings together the experiences of creative practices in early years education, to show the importance of cultures, environments and networks in the enrichment of the early years learning...
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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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Videos
Do schools kill creativity?
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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