Fostering creative thinking inside our classrooms is one of the essential goals of our teaching. Ask any teacher today about what they want their students to develop and creativity will definitely be featured in their answers. Creativity is also a process that follows a thinking path, one that is inquisitive and noisy. Saying that it is a process implies that it is learnable but it is not learned in the same rigorous way other thinking skills are learned.
Creativity calls for a specific arsenal of thinking activities starting from risk taking and ending with sharing.To help teachers unleash the creative spirits inside their students, Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has a separate section devoted solely to materials and resources on this topic.
We are also sharing with you this terrific graphic that features 29 ways to stay creative. Have a look and let us know what you think of it.