Goal 21 of The 30 Goals Challenge 2011
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”~ Scott Adams
Goal
Short-term- Have a lesson where your students are allowed and encouraged to explore several options and discuss which one was a success and which not so successful.
Long-term- Support an art, music, or drama, or other creative program in your school. If the school is lacking a program then help students create an event/club that supports creativity. For example, in my church we hosted monthly open mic shows and served coffee and snacks to raise money.
My Creative Dabbles! What are yours?
My Machinima of an Art Exhibit in Second Life
Find some of my poetry and stories at my blog, Spotted Minds.
**NOTE
Due to traveling, I am behind on posting the podcasts. I will try to get the podcasts up soon!
Challenge:
Support creativity in your schools.
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Keep an eye out for the book, The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators, that will be published by Eye on Education in the Fall of 2011!
Podcast is coming soon!
I have become a big fan of creativity in my classroom and try as hard as I can to encourage it in my students on a daily basis. I was shown Sir Ken Robinson’s TED talk about schools killing creativity and was truly inspired to do something about it. I am not always sure that my students appreciate my efforts, because I think they have been “educated” in a world where they are “told” the only thing that matters is the right answer and there is only one of those. If we are truly concerned with educating the whole child, then we need to make sure that the whole child is being educated, not just the part that gives the right answer.