How Do You Teach Creativity?

How Do You Teach Creativity?

EPISODE SUMMARY Working with students on creative projects is challenging. What exactly is creativity and how do you teach it? What role does structure and deadlines play in the creative process? How do we guide students in collaborating together on creative work? What's the importance of self-assessment and peer assessments? How subjective or objective should our assessment as teachers be? EPISODE NOTES A conversation on Facebook with my friend Jake led me to ponder the nature of teaching kids how to do creative work. Jake Ritter is a broadcast journalism teacher and John Mulvany is an artist and art teacher…
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Art Is Theft – Entry 1

Art Is Theft – Entry 1

I've been vlogging a lot lately.  I got inspired by a guy name Casey Neistat.  He was the first vlogger I watched that I didn't get bored by (most of them are just people talking to their camera for 15 minutes).  He made his vlogs pretty cinematic (like here and here).  I've always been one who video taped the things going on around me, especially in college, but I didn't make nearly as many movies out of those videos as I had hoped.  Seeing his vlog though sparked some ideas on how to creatively share stories of everyday life. A comment was left…
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