Now onto the workshop.
The title was: Why My 5th Graders Will Rule the Future!
It was given by educator Bob Reeker, a Nebraska art and technology teacher, who provided his attendees with many great ideas related to creative problem solving, directly inspired by Pink's work.
The description from the conference went like this:
"The work done by Daniel Pink about creativity is powerful.
This Lincoln, Nebraska, practitioner took Pink’s work into his elementary
setting allowing students to explore play, design, story, symphony, empathy,
and meaning via sketching."
Here are some notes I took:
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5 Principals of Creativity: design, symphony, empathy, story, play, and
meaning.
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Each activity asked 3 questions:
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What do we mean by it?
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How can we develop this idea?
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What is the art problem to be solved?
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Design: A ‘Thingamajiggy’
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Draw a simple object, ask your students to define the function, make it
aesthetic, and re-design and give 3 ideas for its use.
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Symphony: Synthesize 3 objects into 1
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Empathy: Shared drawings, (cannot deface prior drawing). The first one is about 5 minutes long and the
rest are 2-3 minutes long.
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Story: Used visual puns to illustrate, you could do ‘and thens…’ like
story endings.
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Play: Use nouns: person, place, and things, in numbers. I.E. four scuba divers, 2 mountains, and 3 lollipops. Students need
to illustrate it.
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Meaning: Bulls eye chart with most important things being place in the
center and less important things go on the periphery.
For future reference, the Oprah website has a nice meaty excerpt from Pinks book, enjoy!
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