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I just taught figurative language skills to my 9th graders using these links. They loved listening to popular music/movie clips while learning language skills.

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/14bb3dba333023ce?projector=1

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Language Arts Figurative Language Tutorial

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Examples of Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Alliteration, and Hyperbole are found while exploring quick clips of today's hit music.

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Is this the type of thing we are looking for to promote creativity in our classrooms?

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from Buck Institute

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Teaching to the Whole Brain-General Guidelines

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Teaching to the Whole Brain-General Guidelines

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Mike has a copy.

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How a Moveable Space can Ignite Creativity in the Classroom

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How a Moveable Space can Ignite Creativity in the Classroom

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KQED | News, Radio, Podcasts, TV | Public Media for Northern California

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KQED provides public radio, television, and independent reporting on issues that matter to the Bay Area. We're the NPR and PBS member station for Northern California.

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Skitch

Animoto

Popplet Lite

Adobe Draw

Pic Collage

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This book is available at Simonsen!

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a whole new mind: why right-brainers will rule the future

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business & economics / decision-making & problem solving

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psychology / cognitive psychology & cognition

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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future

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The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.Drawing on research from around the world, Pink (author of To Se...

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Ben has a copy of this book!

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Patti Drapeau Table of Contents

Reviews | About the Author | Comments

About This Book

Teaching isn't merely transmitting knowledge to students; it's also about teaching students to approach learning in engaging and unexpected ways.

In Sparking Student Creativity: Practical Ways to Promote Innovative Thinking and Problem Solving, author and researcher Patti Drapeau explores and explains research related to creativity and its relevance in today's standards-based, critical thinking-focused classroom.

The book vividly and comprehensively shows

How creative lessons can meet and extend the expectations of curriculum standards such as the Common Core State Standards.

How to incorporate creativity and assessment into daily classroom practices.

How to develop a Creativity Road Map to guide instruction.

How to design lessons that prompt and support creative thinking.

In addition, the book includes 40 "grab and go" ideas that infuse lesson plans with a spirit of exploration.

No matter what grade levels or content areas you teach, Sparking Student Creativity will help you to produce creative lesson components that directly address critical content, target specific standards, and require thoughtful products from students as they grow into independent learners and become successful adults.

See the book's table of contents and read excerpts.

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Aboutthe Author

PATTI DRAPEAU is an educational consultant, trainer, author, and internationally known presenter. Patti has been a presenter at conferences and workshop sessions in school districts in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. An adjunct faculty member at the University of Southern Maine, Patti is also a consultant for the Maine Department of Education in gifted education and serves on the executive board of the Council of State Directors of Programs for the Gifted.
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Patti Drapeau Table of Contents Reviews | About the Author | Comments Teaching isn't merely transmitting knowledge to students; it's also about teaching students to approach learning in engaging and unexpected ways. In Sparking Student Creativity: Practical Ways to Promote Innovative Thinking and Problem Solving, author and researcher Patti Drapeau explores and explains research related to creativity and its relevance in today's standards-based, critical thinking-focused classroom.

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Ben says there's money if you want to buy this!

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Sitting on a train going from New Haven to DC, I noticed something. Everyone was swallowed up by his or her device. On this Friday afternoon -- where spring was beginning to enchant the eye -- passengers' noses were buried in their laptops, cellphones, or both.

Circular Train of Thought

The guy sitting next to me had the worst of this affliction. He had a huge computer that was bigger than the tray-table. The computer had a touchscreen, which he would continuously tap. Leaning along side this mammoth machine was an equally as oversize cellphone, which would occasionally fall off the table when the train hit a bump. This poor soul would reach over to the phone when the screen changed color or when it vibrated. Sometimes he would just reach it to see what time it was, which he could have easily figured out by just adding 30 seconds to the last time he checked it. He was caught in a Pavlovian loop of touching the computer screen and reaching for his cell phone without any Crtl-Alt-Del buttons in sight.

This was a Friday evening on the train. It should have been the time to log off from work, from the week, and from the world. However, what I was witnessing with my fellow traveler was not relaxation. And I grew saddened by the fact that he didn't know how to log-off, or know the benefits of being a bit bored.

Too Much Information

When I am writing, I sit at a computer with the Wi-Fi turned off. I'll be the first to admit that staring at a blank page is hard and a bit boring. But this space of logging off is exactly the space needed for me to create. It is the disconnecting that makes room for words to come onto a page or screen.

To create, we need to make space for our creation. Think of it this way -- Emily Dickinson might not have written a word if she kept getting text messages. Thomas Edison might not have created the light bulb if he was sitting on his Facebook page. Steve Jobs might not have made the Mac if he was sucked into Candy Crush. Yet this is the world that we live in. We are highly over-stimulated.

We are hopped up on technology, and it will only get worse unless we individually make some choices to log off occasionally. We have to do it intentionally. There isn't an app for that.

The brain is a wonderful computer, but unlike our devices, it needs to log-off occasionally in order to work better. When I was growing up, television used to sign off late in the evening. Today, television programming is 24/7. And this state of "being on" gives me concern that our children will not learn how to rest their brains. There are benefits to being bored and unoccupied, but our children will never learn them.

Making Room for Boredom and Creativity

We have devices, cellphones, social media, and apps to fill the empty space. However, a recent study shows the benefits of boredom. A bit of boredom increases creativity. In one study, researchers had two groups -- one that did a boring task of copying phone numbers onto a page for 15 minutes, and another group that did not. Both groups were then asked to work on a task that allowed them to show their creativity. In each case, the "bored" group performed better. "Boredom . . . has always been seen as something to be eliminated, but perhaps we should be embracing it in order to enhance our creativity," says Dr. Sandi Mann, a professor of psychology at the University of Central Lancashire (U.K.) and one of the researchers of this study.

When you are not consumed by technology, your brain has space to breathe and to create.

So how do we make space for boredom? Have children sit for a few minutes, and let their minds wander. Afterward, have them report out what they thought about. Make it a game. Give them a chance to experience boredom briefly -- their creative brains will thank you in the future.

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Bored? Good, You'll Be More Creative | Edutopia

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How to Promote Creativity in Your Classroom

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Every child is born with the potential of being creative. Creativity is a crucial aspect of any personality. It helps to analyze things in diverse and uncommon way. Creativity does not just happen; it needs to be cultivated, and the cultivation of creativity in every kid starts from the classroom.

Creativity can be promoted or cultivated and here is the list of strategies that can help teachers to promote or cultivate creativity in the classroom.

Emotional Connection

Many researches show that creativity can be cultivated best through emotional contacts. For instance, if teachers give project to the students related to community problems like domestic violence. It can help in sprouting creativity because of the human touch and hence emotional connection in it.

Classroom Environment

Classroom environment plays a crucial role in cultivating creativity and confidence in students. Teachers can make classroom environment where each student's voice matters a lot. Getting involved with the students in the community is the best way to give push to their creativity. Here how teachers can make classroom environment more effective for their students.

Permit frequent discussion and interaction amid students in the classroom.

Make time for informal class opportunity for the students.

Memorize each student's name meanwhile ensure every student knows everyone's name.

Use Of Different Models

You can use various models to promote creativity in the students. A perfect model can help in:

Establishing connection amid the students' real lives and classroom.

Inspire innovation and create chances to resolve novel issues.

Lookout ways to spread learning prospects at classroom and home.

Risk-Taking

Risk-taking thinking or ability automatically prompts creativity. Therefore, teachers must encourage risk-taking approach in the students. Here some of the strategies that teacher can follow to enhance risk-taking ability in their students.

Offer safe environment that permits risk-taking

Arouse willingness in the students to try new ideas

Accept the mistakes made by students while trying new things

Talk to other teachers and discuss what worked and what not.

Active Learning

Active learning includes use of creative stuffs like games, concepts, maps and study materials. Active learning can only be encouraged when student enjoys the learning environment. Here are some ideas through which teachers can cultivate creative thought through active learning.

Create interactions that provide students a lot problem-solving opportunity

Give them a lot of opportunities for hands-on field work

Organize round-table discussion time to time on interesting topics

Permit students to create some of the question for their upcoming exam

We are living in 21 st century where technology is dominant in the education industry. Nowadays, we have access of many tools that develop creativity in the students. Here is a collection free web technology accessible for everyone.

Web Blogs: Blogs are the great platform to enhance creative writing, reading and thinking in the students. Teachers can encourage their students to use blogs to demonstrate their opinion about a particular topic or lesson.

Brainstorming and Mapping tools: Nowadays, a lot of tools and apps available over the web for brainstorming and mapping. Help your students to get the access of mindmaps, puzzles, visual graphs and much more.

Infographics: Infographics are the best way to give wings to your student's imagination and creativity. Using various tools available on the web, students can showcase their creativity using graphs.

Online Games: Online games endorse teamwork, creativity and cooperation among students. Some of the online games are specifically meant to education students to learn a specific lesson with fun.

Here is a list of apps that support and foster creativity in the kids.

Encourage observation

Develop Questioning Skills

Brainstorming

Visualization Skills

Now, it's your turn to tell us how you cultivate creativity in your students. Your response is awaited in the comment box.

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How Can Technology Enhance Student Creativity?

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Why is it that children today are more attracted to video games than comic books? A huge amount of thought, creativity and art has gone into designing those artistic little video games. They encourage children to bring out their hidden artistic selves,