Contributor: Monica Burns
Earlier this year I had the chance to review the new research conducted by Adobe Education on creativity in the classroom. Their study is titled, Creative Problem Solving in Schools: Essential Skills Today’s Students Need for Jobs in Tomorrow’s Age of Automation, and covers a topic on the minds of educators I meet during my travels.
Creativity in the Classroom
When surveying educators from across the world, they identified key creative problem skills for students including, (1) independent learning, (2) learning through success and failure, and (3) working with diverse teams, just to name a few. You can read the complete research findings here. So how can we promote creativity in the classroom and turn students into creators across the content areas?
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Article features FETC Speaker:
Dr. Monica Burns is a curriculum and educational technology consultant, Apple Distinguished Educator and founder of ClassTechTips.com. As a classroom teacher, Monica used one-to-one technology to create engaging, standards-based lessons for students. Monica has presented to teachers, administrators and tech enthusiasts at numerous national and international conferences including SXSWedu, ISTE, and EduTECH. She is a webinar host for SimpleK12 and a regular contributor to Edutopia. Monica is the author of Tasks Before Apps: Designing Rigorous Learning in a Tech-Rich Classroom (ASCD), #FormativeTech: Meaningful, Sustainable, and Scannable Formative Assessment with Technology (Corwin), Deeper Learning with QR Codes and Augmented Reality (Corwin), and co-author of Taming the Wild Text (Shell).
FETC Presentations:
TOEDU | Future of Ed Tech Educator Track Orientation
$W293 | School Branding and Storytelling With Adobe Spark for Education
C032 | 22 Strategies for Taming the Wild Text for Digital Readers
C102 | A Flash of Inspiration for Sparking Creativity in the Classroom
C222 | Ready-for-Tomorrow Tips to Place Tasks Before Apps
C248 | Make It Count! 15 Formative Assessment Favorites for K-12 Classrooms
C337 | Appropriate Limits on EdTech: Drawing Boundaries in a 1:1 World
