Yo Yo Kids Creativity

“Help me be more

CREATIVE.... I like to have my Yo Yo back, please?”

Re-ignite Your Passion to teach about Creativity and to teach Creatively

Torrance and Safter (1990)

People prefer to learn creatively- by exploring, questioning, manipulating,

rearranging things, testing and modifying, listening, looking, feeling - and then thinking

about it –incubating.

The Four Ps of Creativity

IDEA BOXCombining different variations

to create new story ideas

STATION 1

Story Re-Creation

Story Re-Creation with Idea Box

Example: Nim’s Island

Example: Nim’s Island 2

SCAMPERMnemonic device created by Bob Eberle (1971) to

supplement training in basic rules of Brainstorming

STATION 2

Design a Yo-Yo that will be very popular with kids in the

year 2020Work in groups of 4 - 5

TASK:

Design a Yo-Yo that will be very popular with kids in the year 2020

Divergent Spark Plug SCAMPER

Substitute Combine Adapt Modify Put to other uses Eliminate Re-arrange

SCAMPER : Substitute? Who else instead? What else instead? What other

material? What other

process? What other place? What other groups?

SCAMPER : Combine? Blend? Assortment? Combine units? Combine purposes? Combine appeals? Combine ideas? Combine concepts?

SCAMPER : Adapt? What else is like

this? What other ideas

does it suggest? Does the past offer

a parallel?

SCAMPER : Modify? New twist? Modify meaning? Modify colour? Modify motion? Modify sound? Modify smell? Modify form? Modify shape?

SCAMPER : Put to Other Uses? New ways to use as

it is? Other uses if

modified? Other places to

use? Other people to

reach?

SCAMPER : Eliminate? Minify? Subtract? Condensed? Lower? Shorter? Lighter? Streamline? Split up?

SCAMPER : Rearrange? Interchange

components? Other patterns/

rearrangements? Other layout? Other sequence? Transpose cause

and effect? Turn inside out?

Forced ConnectionsIndividual Ideation to Get Your Mental

Wheel Turning

STATION 2

Visual Connection with a Yo Yo

Forced ConnectionWhen you look at/

play with/ smell/ listen to your Yo-Yo, what ideas do you get for solving the following problems?

Observe & Dot ‘judgmental’ participants ◦ Verbal comments &

observable behaviors

Reptile’s Response to something new:◦ Run from it!◦ Attack it!◦ Eat it!

Special mission:Crocodile Hunters

Divergent Thinking Rules

Torrance Incubation Model

Torrance Metaphors: Looking Twice

Defer judgment Keep open to new

information and insights

Search for more information

Evaluate and re-evaluate information

Torrance Metaphors: Digging Deeper Get beyond the surface

to find out what was hidden

Diagnose difficulties Integrate all available

information Check information

against hunches Synthesize diverse kinds

of information Elaborate and diverge

Torrance Metaphors: Listening / Talking to a Cat Let presented information

"talk to you" and then “talk back” to the information

Read your own feelings in response

Recognize that mistakes will be made

Make guesses, check, correct, reexamine, discard unpromising solutions, refine, and make the best solutions better

John YeoSingapore

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