A pretty inspiring guy really.
Having just watched a 5 min youtube about creativity being applied imagination, I come away with new thoughts, and guess what I'm doing something with these (so they aren't imagination anymore its creativity)
Some key points from his presentation that struck a chord with me were
Creativity is a process, not an event
It evolves
Ideas you end up with are not normally what you began with
And this is because as you learn more about what you are doing you are able to apply values to a context and gain more relevance.
For us as teachers, the idea of process is great.
Teaching a process is tangible. It's both understandable and teachable. What however is not predictable is the outcome of the process. Our students can follow a process to produce an end product - this is true, the creative ideas in the end product are not however predictable. Example: We can teach how to write a piece of creative writing, but we will have no idea what words or themes the student will use.
How does this link in to the OLC? I think we can develop the learning community in such a manner that we give control of the processes to the students/participants. Still I remain a skeptic and belong to the If we build it they won't come . I feel the inability to predict the kind of creative writing is transferrable to this idea. I have no idea how students will respond to tools on the OLC, and this instils a fear that if they aren't used at all, or if used sporadically this will devalue the trust that they may be trying to build in the OLC.
No trust, no regular use, no community
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