Creativity Revisited:Hacker Ethic & Remix Practices in the

21st Century Classroom

Prof. Lic. Mariana FerrarelliApril – 2015 - #CreativityPPDmariana.ferrarelli@gmail.com slideshare.net/marianaferrarelli@FerrarelliM

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• Developed

• Trained

• Honed

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• David Ogilvy

• The father of advertising

• 8 habits

Courage

• The ability to do something that you know is difficult or dangerous; mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty

• "Fear leads to self-doubt, which is the worst enemy of creativity"

Intuition

• Natural ability or power that makes it possible to know something without any proof or evidence; a feeling that guides a person to act a certain way without fully understanding why

• "We are wiser than we think and intuition is the art of listening to the guru within us"

Curiosity

• The desire to learn or know more about something or someone; desire to know; interest leading to inquiry

• "When we've lost our capacity to see the world and everything in it as new: unreasonable, bewildering and something that gives rise to astonishment, we have become dim-sighted and stooped with age"

Playfulness

• Happy and full of energy; eager to play; showing that you are having fun and not being serious

• "We are all born children. The trick is to remain one" Pablo Picasso

If we are here…. today…

Participatory Culture

“Participatory culture is emerging as the culture absorbs and responds to the

explosion of new media technologies that make it possible for average consumers to

archive, annotate, appropriate, and recirculate media content in powerful new

ways”

(Jenkins, 2006:8)

Participatory Culture

“Participatory culture is emerging as the culture absorbs and responds to the

explosion of new media technologies that make it possible for average consumers

to archive, annotate, appropriate, and recirculate media content in powerful new

ways”

(Jenkins, 2006:8)

Participatory Culture

Users producing content

Students producing knowledge

• The Creative Mindset

• “An attitude to the world characterised by curiosity, questions and a desire to play, make and share which children possess in their early years but which is tragically lost in the cultures of schools and workplaces”.

• Change the order of activities

• Play with TIME

• Change our view on learning

• Let stds CHOOSE

• Learning Styles = One-size-fits-all

• Adapt a story

• http://writecomics.com/

• http://piktochart.com/

• Book Screen

• Screen Book

• Paper-based journal project

• Written language fluency

• Privacy Agreement

• Welcome questionnaire

• ‘Grammarless’ Oath

• Visible Thinking: Project Zero – Harvard

When thinking becomes visible in the classroom students develop thinking dispositions which in turn allow for

thoughtful and deep learning.http://pzweb.harvard.edu/vt/VisibleThinking

When thinking is visible it can be recorded in different ways:

- Mind maps- Charts- Lists- Videos of classroom work- Diagrams- Students’ reflections in a journal or logbook

Routines: Cognitive Behaviours

∞ Think critically∞ Provide evidence∞ Justify with explanations∞ Compare & connect∞ Summarise ∞ Explore multiple perspectives∞ Identify parts in a whole∞ Draw conclusions∞ Hypothesize∞ Reflect on their own learning process

“If you were to write a headline for this topic or issue right now that captured the most important aspect that should be remembered, what would that headline be?”

Headlines

Mark Church introducing the HEADLINES routine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMginVgsYPs

This routine helps students think of a summary or synopsis of the topic discussed. It works especially well at the end of a class discussion or session in which students have explored a topic and gathered a fair amount of new information or opinions about it.

• Choose a classic tale:

• Introduce 3 extra objects:

• How would Lizzie Bennet react if she were the female character in “A Streetcar Named Desire”?

• Imagine Wilfried Owen’s Facebook profile.

• Victoria Volonté - Literature

• Talk to stds.• ProduSers: Don’t ask them to answer the

Qs. Ask them to produce the Qs themselves

• Flipped Classroom: Don’t research a topic and deliver a presentation. Ask them to do the research to deliver the class themselves

• Share the Assessment Criteria

• Invite stds to agree on the assessment objectives with you.

• Democratic Pedagogy

• Critical Literacy

Rubric for Visual Presentations

• Recycle

• Reuse

• Rewrite

• Reread

• Reappropriate

• Transform

Hamlet

• “Amleth”

• “The Spanish Tragedy”

• Ur-Hamlet

• Senecan drama

Remix & Mashup Practices• Remix: “the reworking or adaptation of an

existing work (…) alternate version of the original”. (Lamb, 2007:14)

• Mashup: “Involves the combination of two or more works that may be different from one another” (Lamb, 2007:14)

Both practices involve:

the mixing of any number of digital media sources

Remix & Mashup Practices

Hacker: sb who has fun thinking or reasoning in clever or unusual ways; sb who loves what he/she does and uses his/her wit to improve it.

• Pushes boundaries and moves off limits

• Feels uncomfortable with the status quo

• Believes in change through improvement

HACKER MINDSET

• Hacking is NOT about devices & technology; it’s NOT about WHAT but HOW we approach problems.

• It’s about understanding how a system works to change the process so that it suits our needs.

• Creativity + Passion + Freedom

• Hacking is about CREATING better ways to do the things we love.

• We can hack anything

#Hackschooling

#Hackeducation

Let’s become hackers ourselves.

Let’s become subversive protagonist of disruptive initiatives

Let’s hack our everyday classroom practices.

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