Crushing It with Creativity outlines some of the beliefs set forth in the "Creativity Credo" from my book, "Intention: Critical Creativity in the Classroom". It then offers a plethora of ideas for creative thinking in the classroom and beyond

1. CRUSHING IT
WITH
CREATIVITY
@IntentionBook@amyburvall
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2. Students using creative expression
to demonstrate deeper thinking
and the nuances of understanding content

3. Being creative
can mean many things –
It’s painting, it’s dance,
writing songs we can sing
It’s the essence of humanity –
it’s how we survived
It’s the very best part
of being alive!

4. But, though we are born
creative souls, all
Often we feel
we are hitting a wall.
Ideas fail to come,
the page remains bare
The artist, upon a blank canvas
must stare.

5. Is there a way –
a tip or a trick
To get unstuck
and make things stick?
To flow with that
creative juice
To untie
the internal editor’s noose?

6. All good things
come with practice, it’s true.
But of course, you first
must know what to do!
So let’s unpack creativity…
Find out what it is,
essentially.

7. It’s sometimes
frantic ideation…
But often, stillness –
incubation.
It can flood
in a manic wave,
Or come as habit,
day by day.

8. It’s both consumption
and production –
At times
even destruction.
It’s novelty,
but remix, too…
Mash up the old
to make the new.

9. It’s all about
connecting dots;
Finding relationships
others see not.
It works best with constraints,
perimeters, rules –
Things like time,
resources, tools.

10. Let’s de-silo disciplines,
Be unafraid of big questions,
Train ourselves to notice more,
And craft a clever metaphor!
Play and tinker without fear,
Turn the status quo on ear.
I hope this rhyme did resonate…
I’ll see you there…
let’s go CREATE!

11. CREATIVITY CREDO

12. CREATIVITY
IS A BIRTHRIGHT

13. everyone
is an
artist

14. Creativity is not just “ART”…
…or even “talent”

15. We all write poems…
…it’s simply that poets are the
ones who write in words
- John Fowles

16. @hrheingold

17. CREATIVITY
IS A TAO

18. McKinsey Creativity Score
(Cannes Lions Winners)
DAILY
PRIORITY
EMPATHY with USERS
FAST
AGILE (adaptable)

19. CREATIVITY is not a talent…
it’s a WAY of operating…
for its own sake
John Cleese

20. MINDSET
at Google, Washington, D.C.

21. It’s seeing juxtapositions…

22. JUX
TA-
PO
SI
TION

28. Do you see the
twisted unicorn?
LOOK DOWN

29. CREATIVITY
IS DERIVATIVE
MOST USED REMIX?

30. CREATIVITY IS
DERIVITIVE

31. “idea ancestors”

33. CREATIVITY IS
ABOUT
CONNECTING DOTS

34. CREATIVITY is…
…connecting dots

35. to dot connect
you must have the dots

36. Help students grow
their “dot forest”

37. Egon Schiele meets
Thom Yorke
of Radiohead

38. need blend of direct instruction
and open inquiry

40. CREATIVITY
CRAVES
CONSTRAINTS

41. We flourish with
conditions, rules, parameters
Creativity is NOT total freedom
Time
Deadlines
Finances
Resources
Space
Materials
Energy

42. sometimes the way out of the box
is via the shackles

43. “The wonderful thing about
writing is that there is always a
blank page waiting.
The terrifying thing about writing
is that there is always a
blank page waiting”
- JK Rowling

44. 10X10 Challenge
10 materials
10 minutes
What do you currently
know about your research topic?

45. 4 icon challenge

46. CREATIVITY CAN BE
CULTIVATED

47. the skill
of the century:
LEARN
UNLEARN
RE-LEARN ANEW
@AmandaJeane2

48. “if they build it they will get it”
@wickeddecent
CREATION REVEALS COMPREHENSION

49. CREATIVITY
is content
agnostic

50. THE WOW IN
THE NOW

54. Wonder Walks

56. “Screams and Whispers”
Metaphor +
Wonderwalk
@llarmand @perfinker

57. Idea!
nature walks to
create characters
and scenes..or
poems!

58. stuff your eyes with wonder
Ray Bradbury

60. Typography Hunt
great for poems!
try as collaborative
project

61. ideas are butterflies
- notebook is net
Try a
MULTI-SENSORY
JOURNAL

62. low barrier entry points: photo-a-day

63. your class is
not your classroom

64. Pareidolia
use existing
found objects
Unexpected
Materials

65. Pareidolia WARM-UP
ask students to
show what they know
using things from
their backpacks /
things around the room

68. Pareidolia
REMIX: draw over
existing landscape
Paper 53 app
The World as a Canvas

71. Space as Muse…
…mise en scène
design experiences
offer resources

72. “A man is whatever room he is in “
- Japanese proverb
Google Switzerland

73. instead of work time?
time

74. LIVE IN THE
QUESTION

77. Forming
Questions
5 Whys
How Might We…?
What if…?

78. Via Craig Cantile,
Vancouver

79. I have the answers to the questions
they never ask
- Gwen Burvall

80. the Weird Wonderful Worrisome
tag board

81. QuestionStorm…
silent brainstorm first
only questions
…pool together

82. Question of the Week
Track a Question on SM
Question Faires
Wonder walls
QuestionStorms
What’s the Question?

83. Q-LLISIONS
(based on 50 people 1 question)
deep, open-ended
provocations
that require short,
poignant responses

85. 3 Image
1 Question
Presentation

88. HUMAN
MAGNETIC
POETRY

90. Story Starter for Alternative Faerie Tale?

91. VOCAB VOLLEY

92. Tableaux

93. Music Genre Body Data Viz

94. MAKE DISCIPLINES
DANCE TOGETHER

95. Combinatorial
Play
Albert Einstein

96. THE BIG THEME?

97. walkabout?
“host” your room
…tourists
in our own land?

98. 3-2-1 BRIDGE
3 things you know / thoughts
2 questions
1 analogy / connection

99. Binary voting?
Place around campus
with poignant binary questions
use whimsical materials

100. Book Spine Couplets

101. Play with
stacking

102. create your own!

103. CUT UP POETRY
William Burroughs

104. “…a way to practice mindfulness while still learning.
The stress was melting away from my students
as they created” - Kendra Rosales

105. Haiku Plot
Couplet Remix

106. MASTER
THE METAPHOR

108. Metaphors have a way
of holding the
most truth
in the least space
orson scott card

109. you can make
visual metaphors
with anything!

112. 3rd grade students

113. PLAY with METAPHOR
…as students learn
new vocabulary /
concepts
* try an analogy WALL

114. Star Wars Analogies: Biology

115. Colour
Palette
www.colourlovers.com/
metaphor
justification

116. http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/add
To Kill a Mockingbird palette excerpt
@wickeddecent

118. Jay Nickerson
Collaborative
CLASS
Community
Palette

120. use the titles as inspiration - or develop your own

121. Nuances
of Vocabulary

123. pre-writing
shapes of stories…

125. @MrsClineELA

127. “Playlist a Life”PLAYLIST

128. Internet
Censorship
Minimalist
Poster

130. PERSONIFICATION

131. Yearbook Math
What if the concept was
a High School Senior?

132. Explain something in
your discipline using:
Fairy Tales
Food
Cars
Animals
Everyday Objects
ANALOGY
BATTLE

133. a ________ is like ___________
https://sidewaysdictionary.com/#/

134. CLOCK
YOUR CREATIVITY

137. CAPTURING WITH A
COMMONPLACE BOOK

138. DREAM DIARY

139. Start a Series…

142. student work, Fahrenheit 451

143. gather visual
affective data
* try a “GIF-FLECTION”

144. MISS YOUR MARK…
SO YOU CAN FIND YOUR TARGET

145. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones
to keep.
Scott Adams

148. “…just slap something on it”
- Vincent Van Gogh

149. PLAY / TINKER

150. Almost all creativity involves
purposeful play
- Abraham Maslow

152. @MsCapwell
“Tinker Trays”

154. Remix Labs and Deconstruction Zones
as well as Maker Spaces?

155. @Angela Stockman

156. creative constraint:
1 OREO
change any way you like
#IntentionOreo

159. Oreo a Social Issue: Climate Change

162. FEED YOUR MERAKI

163. Henri Matisse, bedridden
MERAKI:
Creativity
+ Love

164. You are a
mashup
of what you
let into
your life
Austin Kleon

165. travel
exercise
incubation
STIMULATION

166. MEET UP
STAND UP
GET OUT
STAY IN

167. go
(best colour
for inspiring creativity)

168. “creative stereotype effect”

170. your big takeaway
lingering question
your personal challenge:
what can you try out tomorrow?
@amyburvall @edtechteam