January 2020 Creativity Tip

by | Jan 17, 2020 | creativity-tips

For this month’s Creativity Tip, we are providing a list of a few tech tools designed to promote creativity in your classroom.  The tools come from technology/creativity sessions at the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) Conference in Albuquerque that...

Concept mapping and Mind mapping

by | Jan 15, 2019 | creativity-tips

Teach learners to create concept or mind maps.  Maps can be wonderful tools to nurture creative and critical thinking.   A concept map (Novak, 1998) is a way to represent knowledge and show the relationship of ideas and concepts while mind-mapping...

Teach students to Bend, Blend, and Break

by | Jan 5, 2019 | creativity-tips

In their book, The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World, Anthony Brandt and David Eaglemen identify three “B”s or three basic strategies that are at the root of all creative thinking: bending, breaking and blending.In blending, the brain combines...