Teaching Creativity – UiS podkast

Podcast 5 focuses on making these games and exercises useful. Once you have developed a creative space, divergent skills, and used these to play creative textual games, the question often arises of how to integrate this into other projects and Les mer ...

The previous podcast focused on creative writing games for building both divergent thinking and student engagement in writing and collaboration. Podcast 4 focuses on creative reading games for building divergent thinking. These games help move us toward more directed (convergent) Les mer ...

This podcast introduces fun creative writing activities that help develop divergent thinking (creative mind) skills while building collaboration, developing students’ identity as writers, and undoing the myth of genius (only geniuses are truly creative) that gets in the way of Les mer ...

The second podcast introduces the often misunderstood technique of freewriting as a practical tool for teaching and learning divergent thinking. The podcast introduces a series of freewriting exercises that help us to navigate the movement between divergent and convergent thinking. Les mer ...

This is an introduction to teaching creativity for use by teachers, students, and anyone interested in understanding how creativity works and how to develop it through writing games. This first podcast discusses reasons to teach creativity, introduces a simple but Les mer ...