EduCon 2023

Participants will explore game-on-get-after-it strategies designed to grow and expand creative capacity by moving through 4 creative stations, where they can learn, share, and create to jumpstart their teaching and learning.

During this session, participants will learn:
How to identify a variety of strategies to grow creative capacity in learners & educators across ages, contents & contexts by using three classroom-tested strategies.

Participants will be able to apply these creative strategies to designing solutions for problems of personal, local & global concern using computational thinking skills, deconstruction, & abstraction techniques.

Participants will be able to assess the growth of their own creativity capacities over the course of this interactive session by documenting initial thoughts & key findings from start to finish.

Part 1: Warm-up: What IS & what is NOT creative expression? (10 minutes) Brainstorm using a pen & paper or any preferred digital brainstorming tool.

Part 2: Intros: 3 speakers talk about creativity & their backgrounds (10 minutes) Dan & Jacquie will discuss their creative journeys & how they incorporate creativity into their daily lives & how they teach creative strategies to their learners.

Part 3: Quick-fire strategies: (25 minutes)
The facilitators will introduce high and low-tech strategies for participants to practice. Each strategy engages visual & linguistic modalities & can be amplified through technology tools & experienced through analog creation. A slide deck will include links to all resources & provide links to digital spaces for creativity include Google Slides, Sketch.io, Padlet & Noun Project.

Part 4: Sharing out & reflection & Q&A (15 minutes) Our exit ticket reflection will ask participants to choose a color from a color palette selection to represent their takeaways from this session.