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How creative is Your classroom

@AstridOttenheym

[email protected] December 2013

We believe in: • Knowledge creation in a challenging work

en learning environment • Knowledge creation by collaborating and

knowledge sharing • Knowledge creation with technology Our themes • Innovation Education2.0 • Knowledge Management • IT & Social Media • Tablets • Employer2.0 • Blended Learning • Social Networking • Blended Learning • Flipping The Classroom • Personal Learning Networks (PLN)

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What is

creativity?

Is this creativity?

THIS?

Socrative for toddlers! Who was creative here?

The capacity to draw conclusions from existing knowledge and to apply it in

situations, generating new ideas, perspectives and products.

Why is a creative mind important?

Critical thinking

Information literacy Flexibility

Problem solving

Creativity

Communication

Social media literacy

ICT literacy

Self-control

Initiative

adaptability

Personal leadership

responsibility

Ways of

thinking Ways of

WORKING By means of 21st

century tools

Inquiring attitude

By means of 21st

century SKILLS

collaboration

State of mind

Resilient

Curious mind

Independent mind

Decisional mind

Collaboration seeking mind

Solution focussed / purposeful mind

Divergent/ convergent thinking

Critical thinking Moral thinking

Analytical thinking

Not only for new jobs!

How to create a creative classroom?

Pedagogical knowledge with social Media & ICT

Social media & ICT tools

Engaging learning environment

Holistic perspective

Our pedagogy: 6 steps model

Learning cycle with

social media and ICT

Virtueel

(Re)tweet

Social media

questions Groups

value / Best practising

Feedback

reasoning

5. Validate

4. Present 3. Learning interaction

2. Select information

1. Activate prior knowledge / sharpen learning question

Student as active creative learner Teacher as creative educational designer , coach and validator

6. Reflect

2013: 500 teachers 200 school principals / governors

Creative classrooms results

Students as journalists Literacy and writing skills

Animatie werkproces maken

Japan launched a surprise attack in Pearl Harbour at the 7th of

December 1941

Describe an event from the second world war: • Make an animation

about this event.

• Make and share animations • Easy and simple • You have to determine location, background,

characters and the story. • Information will become a moving animation.

.

Digital news

agency

21st century

skills:

collaboration,

creativity,

critical thinking

skills, ICT

literacy

Interaction by means of:

• I like

• Reaction

• Reaction on reaction

Learning assignment • Make a Fakebook-profile

based on a historic figure • App this to other classmates • Take a look at 2 profiles of

other children and post your feedback.

• Wednesday we continue with this assignment in the class.

FAKEBOOK

What we do or what we are going to do

we publish it on our own page.

Interaction by means of

. Sharing

• Reaction

• Reaction on reaction

Learning assignment: • Make a Mind-map about

Egypt in the time of the Pharaohs

• Share your Mind-map with other children

• Give feedback on 2 Mind-maps of other children.

• Adjust your Mind-map if necessary.

Make an instruction video about a math topic.

Skype Interview with Jaspers dad, he is a

soldier in Afghanistan

• Tomorrow we have an

interview about

Afghanistan with

Jasper’s dad

• Ask your parents what

they know about the

situation in Afghanistan.

• Which questions would

you like to ask Jasper’s

dad ?

• What have we learned

from the interview?

My dream: every school a creative school

With Kind regards Astrid Ottenheym MLE/ME

Senior educational advisor / manager innovation & business development Å mobiel: 06-12178003; tel: 076 5245500 email: [email protected] @AstridOttenheym

http://www.linkedin.com/in/astridottenheym