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The decline in creativity is not something new. There is a great Newsweek article from 2010 that discusses the fact that both Europe and China, were moving towards Project Based Learning in their classrooms then.  They laughed at us for continuing down the path we have not changed since then.  They point out this, "Creativity isn’t about freedom from concrete facts. Rather, fact-finding and deep research are vital stages in the creative process." I think we are moving in ways in the right direction, with Common Core. When you look at the ELA Standards, the word "research" is mentioned 80 times. If teachers understood the Pedagogy of them, then they would be willing to move towards learning and using Project Based Learning. I like the ideas you have come up with for your students. Our math teacher, does the same idea within one of the Units of Studies that we have developed for the new standards for our district. They are very effective and give real problems that students need to solve.
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Bronson, P., & Merryman, A. (2010, July 10). The Creativity Crisis. Retrieved November 16, 2016, from http://www.newsweek.com/creativity-crisis-74665

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Boyd, D. (2013). Don’t be fooled when assessing creative work. Retrieved from

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/inside-the-box/201306/dont-be-fooled

when-assessing-creative-work

Crockett, L., Jukes, I., & Churches, A. (2011). Literacy is not enough. Thousand Oaks,

CA: Corwin.

Global Digital Citizen Foundation. (2015a). Creativity fluency [Video file]. Retrieved from

http://globaldigitalcitizen.org/creativity-fluency
Global Digital Citizen Foundation. (2015b). Information fluency [Video file]. Retrieved

from http://globaldigitalcitizen.org/information-fluency

Gray, P. (2012). As children’s freedom has declined, so has their creativity. Retrieved

from https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201209/children-s

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There are many biases in the world, including in the classroom. In a recent study, results showed that there are many biases. For example, males seem to control the field of science where as women seem to control the fields of literacy and arts (Boyd, 2013).

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When thinking about creativity, artistic ability automatically enters my mind.  However, creativity does not mean we can or cannot pick up a pencil a draw a picture (Global Digital Citizen Foundation, 2015a).

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Another strategy I could use in the classroom is to create authentic learning opportunities and experiences students will need in order to be college and career ready. Therefore, I came up with the idea of having students create a travel brochure comparing our state with their pen pals' state (Wyoming). This supports comparing and contrasting in our language arts curriculum.

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One strategy I could use in the classroom is to make sure that lessons and activities are relevant to students' lives and the real world (Global Digital Citizen Foundation, 2015b). Therefore, as I think about recent math lessons in my curriculum, I reflected on how I could make adding with regrouping and subtraction across zeros more applicable to students lives. With holiday feasts and shopping excursions soon upon us, I came up with the idea of having students create shopping lists with a budget. Students have to decide on a budget, how many gifts and how much they can spend on each person. Students have to add and subtract in order to find out how much the total is and if it is within their budget.

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In order to change the recent trends of creativity in today’s classroom, there are many strategies to promote creativity.

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To make matters worse, Crockett, Jukes, and Churches (2011) stress that creativity is essential in today’s classroom, especially if we plan to stay ahead of other countries.

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I was very surprised to read that since the 1980’s and 1990’s, creativity found within our students has been diminishing (Gray, 2012).  This came as a shock to me considering how far ahead the United States has been in comparison to other countries in years past.

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