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Quickstart Guide: Creativity Fluency
Quickstart Guide: Creativity Fluency
With our new creative idea now a reality, we ask ourselves questions
Inspect about the effectiveness and feasibility of the new idea, and if it can be
accomplished within an existing timeframe and budget.
Understanding the problem
Gives the problem the proper context
Makes searching for data/information easier and more focused
Eliminates the dangers of “flying blind”
Leads to hearing unique perspectives from others
IDENTIFY Skills
This involves distinguishing the
elements and the criteria of the
desired outcome. It’s about
figuring out what you need to
create and what limitations or
restrictions you face.
Moving beyond what is known
You invite in new experiences to enrich your mind
Introduces you to new ideas, opinions, and perceptions
Teaches you to never be afraid of what you don’t know
You can discover hidden talents and abilities you didn’t know you had
Identifying connections/relationships
Allows you to make connections to prior experiences and apply them to
new ideas
Recognizing connections in different concepts and ideas helps us
INTERPOLATE Skills determine what made them effective
Helps to structure thought processes for gaining further inspiration and
Interpolate is all about finding developing new ideas
structured patterns within known
information. You “connect the
dots” in a search for clear patterns
and higher level abstractions
Combining opposing concepts/elements
within the sensory input. Forms new ideas, experiences, and possibilities
Engages critical thinking skills by putting together unrelated elements or
concepts harmoniously
Personal success is often fuelled by integrating opposing ideas for the
purpose of forming new and better ones
Thinking laterally about existing knowledge
Lateral thinking is an indirect and creative approach that helps you
discover unique solutions and possibilities
Trains you to see the familiar in a new way, which can spark creative ideas
Frees you from limited thinking, and allows you to work in a mental space
in which there is always a solution or answer
INTERPOLATE Skills
Interpolate is all about finding
structured patterns within known
information. You “connect the
dots” in a search for clear patterns
and higher level abstractions
within the sensory input.
Forming mental images/sensations/concepts
With this skill, you create with elements that are not perceived through
your sight, hearing, or other senses
Exercises your imagination and pushes your creative potential
Encourages you to move beyond the restrictions of your senses while still
drawing on your personal experiences with them
INSPECT Skills
With our new creative idea now
a reality, we ask questions about
the effectiveness and feasibility
of the new idea, and if it can be
accomplished within an existing
timeframe and budget.
Fluency
Snapshot
Essential Question: How would chance, how would you both entertain and educate younger kids
you explain the stages of the about this amazing process?
water cycle using illustration and
animation techniques? Bring the magic of Earth’s water cycle to a younger audience. You
get to explain how the water cycle works and why it’s important to
Subjects: Science, Graphic Arts, life on our planet in a creative and engaging animated cartoon,
Design, Environmental Studies, comic storyboard, or original live skit designed for a children’s
Language Arts educational science program.
Essential Question: What goes about. Think about the documentaries you’ve seen on TV that you
on behind the scenes when really enjoyed. What about them gave you that “WOW!” reaction?
making a documentary about an Working in groups, pick a topic of interest to yourselves and create a
important topic? full-fledged documentary on this amazing subject. Demonstrate
your expertise about the steps involved in research and production,
Subjects: Language Arts, Design, and get to know more about how documentaries are designed to
Media, Technology, Filmmaking be both informative and compelling!
Break the Silence There is always something that we are not comfortable talking
about. How would you express yourself and get people to listen
Essential Question: How can using more than just normal speech? Are you a singer/songwriter?
we express ourselves about Are you a dancer? An artist or a poet? Time to let it shine!
important issues in ways other
than simply verbalizing them? Draw on special talents and abilities you have (and that others may
not know about) to express yourself about an issue that concerns
Subjects: Language Arts, you. Use something more than just simple words to bring your
Design, Theatre, Dance, Visual ideas and feelings out into the most powerful and creative means
Arts, Self-Expression of self-expression. Let yourself be heard without fear.
Move from professional development
into professional transformation.
You know about Solution Fluency, and you’re ready to continue making meaningful
change at the classroom level. Now it’s time for you to take your understanding of the
21st Century Fluencies to new heights.
You’ll retain access to our webinars, online resources, and have exclusive opportunities
for further training. Contact us today and book a 21st Century Fluency Institute, and
usher in some true professional transformation!
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