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
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