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Creativity: The 21st Century Skill No One Is Teaching
Wednesday, August 28, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT
Presented by Dan Hunter, Inventor of H-IQ; and Hathalee Higgs, Partner and Co-Founder, Hunter Higgs, LLC
Moderated by Joyce Whitby, CEO and Co-Founder, Innovations4Education
Sponsored by H-IQ
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The world needs creativity. Business leaders talk about it. Education leaders talk about it. But teachers are the ones to DO it. The classroom is where students develop the creativity they will need in the future. How can we improve classroom teaching to foster creativity—the one 21st century skill that is rarely taught? View this edWebinar with Dan Hunter, author of Learning and Teaching Creativity, interviewed by education consultant Joyce Whitby. Dan discusses in detail:
- How to teach creativity
- How to generate ideas
- How to design assignments to improve imagination
- How to assess creative progress
- How to improve your own imagination
Students learn to use their imagination by generating their own ideas and then exploring those ideas through trial and error. Teaching creativity is like teaching how to ride a bike—you can describe it or guide it, but eventually, every individual must learn to ride on their own. No one became a teacher to supervise rote learning. The motivation to teach comes from the joy of seeing young minds learn, create, and surprise us with their ideas. This session inspires your own creativity—in your life and in your classroom.
This recorded edWebinar is of interest to middle and high school teachers, librarians, school leaders, district leaders, and gifted and talented program leaders.
About the Presenters
Dan Hunter is a playwright, songwriter, teacher, and founding partner of Hunter Higgs, LLC. Dan is the inventor of H-IQ, the first assessment of individual imagination and ideation. He is the co-author of A New Measure of Imagination Ability: Anatomical Brain Imaging Correlates, published March 22, 2016, in The Frontiers of Psychology, an international, peer-reviewed journal. Dan has 25 years of experience in politics and arts advocacy, serving as Executive Director of the Massachusetts Advocates for the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities (MAASH), a statewide advocacy and education group, and as Director of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, a cabinet appointment requiring Senate confirmation. He has also taught creative writing at Boston University since 2000.
Hathalee Higgs is a founding partner of Hunter Higgs, LLC, with more than 20 years of experience working with nonprofit cultural organizations in Vermont and Massachusetts. Her experience includes two years as Development Director of MAASH, a Massachusetts-wide advocacy and education group. She also formed Emerging Arts Leaders of Massachusetts (EALM), a career-development and advocacy group for young arts professionals in the Boston area.
Hathalee was Producing Director of Kingdom County Productions (KCP), an independent film company and nonprofit media arts organization in northern Vermont. She worked with award-winning filmmakers Jay Craven and Bess O’Brien to produce dozens of projects and feature films. She also produced five years of the Fledgling Films Summer Initiative, an intensive writing and production program for teenagers, during which 25 short narrative films and five documentaries were made with young filmmakers. Hathalee earned her master’s in arts administration from Boston University.
About the Moderator
Joyce Whitby is a professional EdTechKnowledgist and lifelong educational technology leader. She has extensive experience in marketing, market development, business development, sales management, and sales leadership including management of direct field sales force, inside sales, and distribution channels. Her strengths include new business development in urban markets, strategic planning and budgeting, recruiting, training, project management, and motivating high-performance sales teams. She is linked with a vast educational professional learning network, including extensive personal connections to key decision makers in U.S. school systems as well as leading executives in the educational technology industry.
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H-IQ (Hunter Imagination Questionnaire) is an online instrument to improve your imagination by helping you generate and implement ideas and purpose for your life. H-IQ engages you in metacognition—thinking about how you think across a spectrum of ten categories. For example, are you more of a verbal or visual thinker? Do you prefer a linear style, or do you prefer following random thoughts? H-IQ presents assessments with speedometer-like graphs showing how you fit between two thinking styles.
