Cultivating Humanizing Change Imagination, Creativity and Collaboration

Creativity and imagination

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen’s beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen Turns them to shapes...

Creativity, Imagination and Digital Technology

School curricula and teachers have traditionally suggested that creativity is only possible in subjects such as art, music, drama and dance. However the digital technology now available to schools can offer users opportunities to be creative in different ways and in other subject areas. Using ideas from recently published UK reports on creativity and creative thinking, grade 1 and 2 students in...

Creativity, Imagination and the World-Wide Web

One way to improve access to education is to make use of the World-Wide Web, and already there is a great deal of material on the Web intended specifically for education. However, much of it is unexciting and would not encourage creativity or imagination in those studying it. This paper shows that by taking ideas from e-commerce, where effective and innovative use has been made of the Web, it i...

Cultivating Creativity In Education Interactions Between Teaching And Learning

Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play

A playpen is a restrictive environment. In actual playpens, children have limited room to move and limited opportunities to explore. Children play with toys in playpens, but the range of possibilities is limited. In her book Designing Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development, Marina explains that she uses the playpen “as a metaphor that conveys lack of freedom to experiment, lack of a...