The Creative Challenge

Students learned about the changing world, how this might impact on their careers and how creativity might be the key to their future well-being.

The prezi summarises this point.

The Creative Challenge

 Students learned that creativity is a learnable skill rather than an innate quality. Creativity can be developed by applying 4 habits (after Robert Epstein). 

• Capture
• Challenge
• Broaden
• Surround

Students also took part in a community of enquiry activity where they formulated and then chose a quality question based on the session's learning.

Below is a selection of their questions.

The community of enquiry activity also generated the following questions.

• To what extent are mistakes a useful part of the creative process? 
• Why is it difficult to think of quality solutions?
• Is time pressure helpful or unhelpful in creating quality products? 
• How important is evaluation to the creative process? 
• Are the best questions those to which we don’t already know the answer? 
• Why do we sometimes get too attached to our own ideas? 
• How important is the presentation of ideas to judging their quality? 
• How does the decision making process affect the quality of the outcome? 
• What sorts of environments encourage a creative frame of mind? 
• What sorts of questions are most powerful in developing our understandings?