See on Scoop.it – Promote Creativity with Technology
Suzie Boss provides 8 tips for turning K-12 classrooms into innovation spaces. How can we prepare today’s students to become tomorrow’s innovators? It’s an urgent challenge, repeated by President Obama, corporate CEOs, and global education experts like Yong Zhao and Tony Wagner. Virtually every discussion of 21st-century learning puts innovation and its close cousin, creativity, atop the list of skills students must have for the future.
1. Welcome authentic questions
2. Encourage effective teamwork.
3. Be ready to go big.
4. Build empathy.
5. Uncover passion.
6. Amplify worthy ideas.
7. Know when to say no.
8. Encourage breakthroughs.
A great article that provides tips on how to encourage students to become innovative. They are, in fact, things that all teachers should be doing in all classrooms, but to see it put into perspective in terms of creativity is helpful, particularly as it is also framed in terms of usefulness for the future.
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