Handy hints for finding creativity #3Change your view of the world

always force yourself to look at things from another angle

be a student in your own class

(video yourself & watch for added benefit)

imagine yourself as someone from another cultureHow would your class look?

“thinking outside the box”?but it could also be ...

thinking there is no box

thinking you’re in the box looking out

thinking you are the box

thinking the box is just fine and using it how you want

Creativity is influenced by how we see the world

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our

perspective

so if you’ve been looking at things the same way for a while

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It’s time to find a different angle

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Try it now

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How many different ways could you set up this classroom?

Give yourself 1 minute

Now pick 2 seemingly unrelated subjects and think of ways to integrate them into 1 unit of work

Chemistry and French Biology and English

PE and Economics Music and Geography

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“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought”

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Handy Hint #4 is in my tweetstream

https://twitter.com/rosetta2032

Or

Search under the hashtag #hints4creativity