Creative activity requires the capacity to imagine and generate new ideas, a process which requires divergent thinking—or finding ideas that diverge from our own normal patterns of thought. In this small group response to a short animation narrated by Sir Ken Robinson, students imagine new possibilities for building divergent thinking into teaching and learning systems.
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Divergent thinking
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.
Nuclear flowers
Tool
5 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)
Creativity pulse check
Tool
5 minutes
By: Character Lab
Ken Robinson: creativity and curiosity
Video
2 minutes
By: Ken Robinson
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Article
20 minutes
By: Francesca Gino, Harvard Business Review
An engine for inquiry
Article
180 minutes
By: ASU New College