How can students be creative?
Generating novel ideas and considering new perspectives
- Use brainstorming and visual diagrams to generate new ideas and inquiries
- Consider multiple alternatives, including those that might be unlikely impossible
- Create novel solutions to authentic problems
- Make unexpected or unusual connections between objects and/or ideas
- Design improvements to existing machines, media, and technologies
- Design new machines, media, and technologies
- Make guesses, ask “what if” questions and generate testable hypotheses
- Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes
- Create original works and ideas; use existing works and ideas in new ways
- Practice flexible thinking-develop multiple opposing, contradictory, and complementary arguments
- Practice visible thinking strategies and techniques
- Generate metaphors and analogies