1. A Creativity Crisis?
• How do we make space for the
hackers and the makers?

3. Creativity is not about creating
‘something out of nothing’…
Creativity encodes, selects, re-
combines synthesises already
existing facts, ideas, facilities, skills
Arthur Koestler (1964) The Act of Creation

4. We are educating young people for a
future not yet invented

5. • But we do know that it will be a future that
demands creative approaches to life, work and
community

6. 20th Century 21st Century
Worker Participant
Consumer Innovator
Charles Leadbetter

7. The future is open for us to act on it, but not for us to
control
- Edmund Phelps

8. Are you a creative person?

9. We used to think creativity was given to just a special few
We were mostly afraid of them

10. Elizabeth Gilbert – creativity is a kind of divine intervention –
arrived at by hard work

11. Creativity is not just an
economic imperative today –
it’s a personal one

12. And a social one

13. Knowledge is a commodity
The world does not care about what you know

14. The world cares about what you can do with what you know

15. The world does not ask, what knowledge you have?
It asks what skills do you have?
What can you do?
Are you motivated?
Tony Wagner – Creating Innovators

16. To be a Continuous learner / Active
informed citizen:
Collaboration
Critical thinking / across networks – Agility /
Problem solving leading by Adaptability
influence
Effective Oral / Accessing /
Initiative /
Written Analysing
Entrepreneurship
Communications Information
Curiosity /
Imagination

17. What does a creative person look like?

20. My Grandfather cut more turf in a day than any other
man on Toner’s bog Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving
sods over his shoulder, going down and down. For the
good turf. Digging

21. 70s oil shortages? Not a problem :)

22. Power outages?

23. Stove Starter
Stove won’t light?

24. Leftover Wavin pipe?

25. And he’s infected his grandchildren…

26. Just Do It Risk Taking
Not hung Tenacious,
up on Never give
process up
Do we educate these attributes out of young people?

27. • PISA scores inversely correlated with
innovation – Pam Moran / Ira Socol

28. Economic Requirements -
skills in creativity, design,
problem solving and
innovation will be essential
for high productivity
• Una Halligan, Chair, Expert Group on
Future Skills Needs 2009

29. Our main brands

30. Lean Manufacturing – Flow
Improve quality, Eliminate waste, Simplify
Identify problems and empower local users to solve using the
Scientific Method (Lean Six Sigma)
Flatten hierarchies
Manage Risk

31. What our students will make and use – hasn’t been invented yet
Because our students will invent them

32. Resilience and ability to weather change

33. The font of creativity is vulnerability
There is no innovation or creativity – without failure

34. Creativity in schools 1:04 3:55

35. Schools are
innovating

36. Christmas Concert

38. Schools are hugely powerful
Last community resource
• Keri Facer

39. Do we protect children too much?
Can civic society and school work together to
build new futures?
School as centre of local innovation?
• Keri Facer

40. Coder Dojo
Apps for Good
Young Rewired State

41. CoderDojo – notice where the parent is (left) and
where the children are (leading the room)

42. Apps for Good

44. Academia
Online Education – NUI Galway
MOOCs – Sligo IT
Student as Producer – Lincoln University
Bridge to Learn – Trinity
#Edchatie

47. Student as Producer

48. Carl Rogers
‘Saw himself as a facilitator -
one who created the
environment for
engagement.
•Active Listening
•Creating a safe space
There were 'ways of being'
with others that foster
• Realness in the facilitator of
exploration and encounter‘
learning Smith (1999)
• Prizing, acceptance, trust
• Empathetic understanding Further reading:
Joe McCarthy
Donald Clark

50. Mentors
Is there a teacher or mentor who’s made a difference –
2/3rds said yes
Many of these mentor teachers were outliers

51. What can each one of us do?
Nurture our own creativity
We have to be innovators, model, take risks, make
mistakes, learn from them, work collaboratively
Where am I modelling play, passion, purpose?
Connect with others doing the same

52. Create safe spaces
Model Creativity
Make connections with students & outside our
institution
Get out of the way

53. https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/instantup
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