Creativity
Ability to think outside conventional patterns, imagine new possibilities, and shape them into transformative ideas.
Dimension Thinking — Understanding Our Complex World
For me
- When were my students last allowed to make something that doesn't exist yet?
- Which task did I set this week so that only one answer is right – and did it have to be that way?
For my class
- How could this be solved completely differently?
- What would you invent if anything were possible?
In the classroom
- Open tasks with several routes to a solution – especially in mathematics.
- Reversal exercise: an everyday object gets a new purpose.
Subject links
Visual arts · Mathematics · Design & technology · Music
Mini-exercise · 5 minutes
30 circles
A sheet with 30 empty circles. In three minutes turn as many as possible into something – a ball, a clock, a pizza. Quantity before quality.