Creative Thinking For Educationists

CREATIVE THINKING for EDUCATIONISTS BRIG SIVAM BE,MIE,AMBIMUK,MBA, AMISTD,AMIIPE

FLYING HIGH

Reaching the Stars

Ride the Waves

To Be an Innovator • Who am I today..? • Our Goals…. • Update yourself with Technology for Education • Interact with Educationists of the World • Stanford, MIT, NUS……

GOALS • TEST YOUR ABILITY • SELF CONFIDENCE • ADJUST TO REAL OUTCOMES • DON’T GIVE UP • SHARPEN YOUR PLANNING SKILL

•Spark Innovation. •TEST YOUR CQ •

Future is here….

Education offers… • Knowledge • Wisdom • Application of science to Improve living comforts of all Eliminate poverty, health, explore the universe, enjoy life Protect the environment

SELF TEST • Identify your goals, vision & DREAMS • SKILLS • ATTRIBUTES • YOUR KIND OF READING • ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR…..

What is my contribution to my institution? • OWN COMMITMENT • TO BE AN EFFECTIVE SPECIALIST • THE RIGHT HUMAN RELATIONSHIP COMMUNICATION , CTREATIVTY • SELF-DEVELOPMENT • DEVELOP OTHERS • ----PETER F DRUCKER •

INVENTIONS • Acupuncture chinese • Aero plane Orville and Wilber Wright 17 • • • • • • •

Dec1903USA Bicycle Boron Von DraisGermanyScotlandFrench18401868 Calculator Leibnitz Germany 1694 Camera Joiseph niepce 1568 1888 Computer USA 1943 Electricity Glass GramophoneTHOMAS EDISONUSA1898

INVENTIONS…. • • • • • • • • • • • •

Gunpowder Ink Laser Helicopter Matches PenBall point pen? EGYPT1880 Paper Robots Shoes Telephone Television Washing machine Hamilton Smith USA1937

INVENTIONS…. • Television • Washing machine Hamilton Smith USA 1937 Cartoons Walt Disney Cotton gin machine Zero India…..

GREAT READINGS • Business @ speed of thought - BILL GATES • • Future shock, The Third Wave - Alvin Toffler • • Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill -Shiv khera • Yow can Win Sony and Akio • Made in Japan Morita

What Can Teachers Do? • Wise teachers can offer a curriculum

with plenty of opportunities for creative behaviors. • They can make assignments that call for original work, independent learning, self-initiated projects, and experimentation.

Teachers can… • Using curriculum materials that

provide progressive warm-up experiences, procedures that permit one thing to lead to another, and activities that make creative thinking both legitimate and rewarding makes it easier for teachers to provide opportunities for creative learning.

Search for tools for Innovation • www.mindtools.com • Lateral Thinking – Edward de Bono • Six Thinking hats • The Third wave- Alvin Toffler

Your Power • What is creativity, innovation, problem solving • How to be Creative? • Brain Power • Anatomy of Brain-Head Strong- Tony Buzen • Blocks to Creativity

God's gift to Human Race

Left and right brain

CT Techniques • Critical Thinking Vs Creative Thinking • Edward De Bono- Lateral thinking, Six Hats • Alex F Osborn- Applied Imagination, Brain storming • Attribute Listing

CT TECHNIQUES… • Check List- size, shape, colour,

state material • Critical Examination- Work Study, Time Study What, When, Where, Who, Why & How Eliminate, Substitute, Alter, Combine….

Six Thinking Hats — Edward de Bono

Knowledge possessed or needed

Opportunities, possibilities, alternatives

Type of thinking being used

Advantages, benefits

Risks, drawbacks, criticism

Feelings, intuition

BRAIN STORMIMG TECHNIQUE • Suspend judgment. • Think freely • Tag on. Improve, modify, build on • Quantity of ideas • Choose a recorder • Organize the chaos • session relaxed and playful • Ideas of immediate usefulness • Areas for further exploration

CT Problems to solve • TOOTH PASTE • SHIRT BUTTON • SHAVING BLADE • BROOM • LIGHT SWITCHES • TOW WHEELER

TEN STEPS TO CREATIVITY • • • • • • • • • •

Listen to Music Brainstorm Carry small note book Refer Dictionary Define your Problem Take a walk Watch TV selectively No Drugs /Alcohol Read voraciously Exercise your brain- Argue often

To Be Creative….. – Be curious – Seek problems – Enjoy challenge – Be optimistic – Suspend judgment – Improve imagination – See problems as opportunities – See problems as interesting – Challenge assumptions – Don't give up easily: persevere, works hard

How you can be Creative • Acquire Knowledge Popular Science, Popular mechanics, Scientific American • Apply Wisdom • Application of science to Improve living comforts of all Eliminate poverty, health, explore the universe, enjoy life Protect the environment www.treehugger.com ,www.springwise.com

What you can do…. • Use of computer systems to acquire knowledge • Set up Innovation clubs • Adventure clubs • Explore Space travel • Learning from advanced countries

• COMMENTS AND • HAVE BREAK …..

QUESTIONS

Explore space

Solar bike

Who needs this….

Solar cookers

Seeing through sound

ARTIFICIAL VISION

Antidirt structural membrane www.ferrari­textiles.com

SEGWAY HT SYSTEM

ELECTRIC BIKES… CARS

BIO FUELS • HOONGE SEED OIL-IISc Bangalore • Veggievan.com, biofuel.org • http://

www.veggiepower.org.uk/main.htm

ENVIROLET Waterless Clean, Sanitary and OdorFree! www.envirolet.com

BIO FUELS • HOONGE SEED OIL-IISc Bangalore • Veggievan.com, biofuel.org • http://

www.veggiepower.org.uk/main.htm

$50 Lab Kits Help Students Le

mobile Electronic Workbench (mEWB), • a SGD$50 portable electronics lab kit

designed and developed by lecturer Hang Kim Yam and his team of technical support officers. • http://www.learnerstogether.net/50-lab-k • Problem-based Learning

PROPOSED ACTIVITIES •: • Topic : Creative use of Waste Materials

(9.00 am - 10.30 am) • 1. Different uses of fused electric bulbs. • 2. Uses of empty cigerette packets/match boxes. • 3. Creativity using leaves of plants. • Topic :Display of Exhibits and follow up. (11.00 am-1.00pm) • Activities, Projects and Display.

WVO BIODIESEL

Roombavac www.irobot.com

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SOLAR CELLS

E-Book Reader Kindle http://www.sony.co.uk/hub/reader

Karunya University , CBE • set to Become an Eco-Friendly

Campus • jatropha oil as a fuel to generate steam • Recycle the entire wastewater and sewage generated by the 6,000 students, faculty and their families living on the campus

PROPOSED ACTIVITIES • Creative use of Waste Materials • 1. Different uses of fused electric bulbs. • 2. Uses of empty cigarette packets/match boxes. • 3. Creativity using leaves of plants. • 4. Solar PV panels for car Parks. • 5. Introduce CFLs and LEDS

WEB RESOURCES • http://www.buffalostate.edu/creativity/ Create an International innovation Center for studies in Creativity www.sharadainventions.com solar devices http://www.fuelcelltoday.com http://www.wenportal.org/ieclub_grants www.innovationcentre.co.nz www.mit.edu http://www.nrdcindia.com/

BE CONNECTED… • Readily available to

interact at your College with Faculty and Students. • [email protected]

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