This short PBS video describes the neurological basis of creativity and how outside ideas flow into the brain through encountering new experiences and new perspectives (Practice C2), become refined and expanded through careful attention (critical thinking and reflection), and find salience through considering the relevance of our ideas to our contexts (Practice C1).
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Can you boost your creativity?
Video
3 minutes
By: PBS
K-12 educators | Leader-prep
Making connections:
Principled Innovation asks us to work with others and recognize the limits of our own knowledge so that we can better understand and tackle the complex issues our communities face.
Ken Robinson: what is creativity?
Video
20 minutes
By: Ken Robinson
The importance of curiosity and questions in 21st-century learning
Article
15 minutes
By: Andrew P. Minigan, Education Week
Possibility thinking protocol
Tool
30 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)
Five tips to improve your critical thinking
Video
15 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)
Mapping systems
Tool
60 minutes
By: Harvard Graduate School of Education