Creativity, Innovation and Design- Argumentative Essay
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CID_Week2-5.pptxCreativity, Innovation & Design
Week 2: What is Creativity, Innovation and Design Thinking?
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Mind mapping activity
In groups of 4-5 students, draw a mind map of what you learned in the Week 2 lecture.
Do not look at the lecture video/ your notes
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Video and discussion questions
Watch the video
How to be creative - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weIQIthC3Ks
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Discussion questions:
Explain the Creative Process Model by using a suitable example in which a person comes up with a creative idea to solve a problem.
Show the importance of collaboration for creativity and innovation by giving an example where everyone in your group/table use their different expertise to solve a common problem.
Does being creative mean to be ‘original’? Why or why not? Explain your answer through an example.
‘Creativity involves risk-taking’. Do you agree with this statement. Explain your answer with an example. What other characteristics are needed to be creative?
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Divergent thinking & Convergent thinking
Divergent thinking: The process of thinking that explores multiple possible solutions in order to generate creative ideas
Convergent thinking: The process of figuring out a concrete solution to any problem
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Creativity is the generation of novel and useful ideas. Creativity is important as it can be used to generate ideas to solve a given problem/complete a task etc. Many of the problems in the world today are complex and evolving which means that old and established ways of thinking/solving them may not always work. Today’s problems need creative ideas/solutions to solve them.
Both divergent and convergent thinking is important for generating novel and useful ideas. In divergent thinking, individuals open up their minds and come up with as many ideas as possible. They do not judge or discriminate between ideas. Divergent thinking gives rise to as many new ideas for a given problem/topic. Then convergent thinking helps to analyse each of these ideas for usefulness and practicality. By engaging in convergent thinking, individuals can narrow down their list of ideas to a concrete solution that can solve the given problem.
Explain to students that:
-Creativity is used to come up with novel and useful solutions to problems.
-When confronted with a problem, divergent thinking and convergent thinking helps individuals to first (a) come up with as many novel ideas as possible to solve the problem and then (b) to analyse, compare, and contrast these ideas and choose the best and most practical idea(s) for the problem
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Divergent Thinking: Idea generation activity
What are the creative uses of a brick?
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This activity is designed to help students engage in divergent thinking to a given problem. In groups, ask students to use their divergent thinking skills and come up with as many uses of a brick as possible. Ask them to think ‘outside the box’ and explore new and useful ways of using a brick.
At the end of the activity, ask each group to share their list of uses of a brick with the class.
Discussion questions for the class: What did you learn from this activity? Did you experience divergent thinking when completing this activity? How does this activity link to creativity?
