Creative Approaches to Higher Education Teaching and Learning
Exploring imaginative teaching techniques in Higher Education through personal stories, nurturing curiosity, and fostering connections with students. Emphasizing the power of imagination in education to drive creativity and innovation.
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Igniting a spark Dr Gillian Judson @perfinker, Jesse Stommel @jessifer, Dr Chrissi Nerantzi @chrissinerantzi, Kathy Wright @kathyadvancehe (Chair) Creative approaches to teaching and learning in Higher Education #creativeHEwhatif
Pre task: Answergarden https://answergarden.ch/1156965 #creativeHEwhatif
Monochrome bios or technicolour bios? Which one of the panel is this? #creativeHEwhatif
When you are with me, you will never know what happens next, not even I often know It will be a surprise. I guess it is the child in me that never moved out. My appetite to wander and wonder has actually been growing year after year... To imagine and to create. The connecting aspect is important to me. Connecting with people and ideas. To develop trust, caring relationships and experiment, to play and make. There is a lot of value keeping that curiosity and inner flame alive and being an explorer, an adventurer and even a rebel. How about you? #creativeHEwhatif
My mom tells a story of when I was very small, about 4-years-old. I had just gotten a pair of clogs for my birthday, and when I wore them to school, the other kids at school made fun of me. So, I put the clogs on my hands and made them talk to each other and to the other kids. Everyone loved my clogs after that. I remember the clogs, but I don t remember that day at school, but I have a memory of it through my mom s story. And I see myself in that story. I see the person I ve become. I also see hints of my own 3-year-old daughter. I also don t remember the day this picture of me was taken, and I don t remember that puffy green jacket, but I see myself so clearly in this photograph. There is something distinctly visceral about the joy and the acknowledgment of the camera and a recognition of the person holding it, who I m guessing is my mom. #creativeHEwhatif
I teach, research, write, and generally traffick in imagination. When I refer to the imagination, I mean the ability to envision the possible in all things, that generative feature of mind (and heart) that fuels all creativity, innovation, and all learning. My research looks at imagination s role in educational leadership, assessment for learning and pedagogy in Higher Education, and Place-based education. My students learn in ways that engage their emotions and imaginations. Because they like you, and me are perfinkers.* They perceive, feel, and think at the same time. They are storytellers and storyseekers. (*Term originally from David Kresh). #creativeHEwhatif
A borrower, a lender, a re-purposer a borrower of ideas, a lender of resources and a re-purposer of approaches. Seeing connections, thinking horizontally, making do and mending, remixing. An Arietty, an outsider, an outlier, travelling to other worlds. Peeping through the floorboards to look at what real people do up there and learning from their lives and their experiences. Then creeping out to find and borrow, . pegs, bobbins, scissors and golden thread. Scurrying back below to regroup, interpret, apply and repurpose. Finally emerging hesitantly, into their world to collaborate, to share knowledge and skills about engagement, daring to fail, risking getting caught and encouraging others to take risks in their worlds. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Borrowers-Puffin-Book-Mary- Norton/dp/0141354860 #creativeHEwhatif
Who are you? What would your alternative bio say? #creativeHEwhatif
What if imagination and creativity were considered indispensable in higher education? https://www.pxfuel.com/en/free-photo-qpvqw #creativeHEwhatif
How do we address the tensions between creativity and imagination and assessment/evaluation? https://pixabay.com/illustrations/creativity-abstract-art-3038628/ #creativeHEwhatif
I teach a very content heavy discipline. In the current situation my programme leader and colleagues are designing packed online sessions to cover the syllabus. The students also expect to meet requirements in order to graduate in these extraordinary circumstances so they might find a good job in their field. I am struggling to see how I can teach more imaginatively and foster creativity in my students at this time. What can I do? #creativeHEwhatif
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Thank you for your attendance and your participation today. #creativeHEwhatif
Support and resources #creativeHE community, website https://creativehecommunity.wordpress.com/ community space https://www.facebook.com/groups/creativeHE #101creativeideas, website https://101creativeideas.wordpress.com/ Creative Academic Magazinehttps://www.creativeacademic.uk/magazine.html Elkington, S., Westwood, D. and Nerantzi, C. (eds.) (2019) Creativity in Student Engagement, Volume 2, Number 3, Special Issue of the Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal, available at https://sehej.raise-network.com/raise/index #creativeHEwhatif
