Creativity Tools

Question 1

Educating to be creative

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Offer people tools for innovation and to get them ready for change.

Question 2

Creativity is limited by

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Linear or traditional thinking

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Traditional or linear thinking makes us…

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Believe every action has an specific answer: logical, organized, based on experience

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Lateral thinking allow us…

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Make new interpretations because of the way they are organized in the brain.

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Linear thinking

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Gives the world the possibility to change

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Lateral thinking

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It actually changes

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Linear thinking

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• Organizes the information in order
• Analyzes the thoughts in a sequential and logical way
• Tends to prove using the scientific method. based on verification.

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Lateral thinking

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• Opens new ways of storing information in the brain
• Walk paths that aren’t obvious.
• The train of thought doesn’t follow a sequence.

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Basic functions of lateral thinking

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Stimulate, counteract rigidity, liberate, explore

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Paradigms

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Block, wish to solve problems creatively since they are almost automatic responses that are based on previous info.

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Basic rules

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• Do not perjudge
• Use your information
• Have a possitive attitude
• Keep the goals in mind
• Look for innovation..

Question 12

Creativity

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Ideal characteristic in every environment

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Critic+creative thinking=

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Problem solution, improvement of processes and products, and increases productivity among people

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Solution creative and value

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Unique form in which we address a problem and how use the information, technology, competencies

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8 elements of Richard Paul

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Purpose, use, point of view, context, information, concepts, inferences, implications

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Edward de Bono

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When solving a problem we usually analyze what is, in a design process we analyze what could be based on the perceptions that play an essential role in creative thinking

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Creativity is evaluated

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Qualitatively according to different approaches

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Elements to analyze…

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inspiration, originality, imagination, problem solving, risk tasking, justification, etc.

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Eisner

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Creativity must work as a form of rebellion

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Torrance

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Evaluating creativity must be based on originality

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Besemer and Treffinger

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Consider Eisner and Torrance and add novelty, solution, synthesis

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Technique proposed by Foster

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Read it on notes

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Two ways to use lateral thinking

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Specific and general

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Specific one

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Refers to a number of systematic techniques that are used to change the concept and perceptions in order to create new ones

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General one

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Exploration of multiple possibilities and approaches instead of accepting one single point of view

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Methods for thinking and extracting concepts

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Six hats, de Bono, proposes to change hats inside the creative process

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Concepts or descriptions for an object

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Purpose, mechanism, value

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Mental model

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Our mind judges each instruction and adds others by force of habit or based on previous experience

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Visual methods

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Make elements more tangible

Question 30

More Graphic elements=

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More understanding of our problematic and possible solutions

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1. Rules of visual thinking

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1. The one who describes the problematic better in a visual way has more real opportunities to solve it

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2. Rules of visual thinking

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2. We must be able to divide it up in smaller pieces: who/what?, how much?, when?,...

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3. Rules of visual thinking

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3. The more human your graphic representation, the more human the solution you get

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Clasp knife and napkin techniques: Step 1

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Observation, imagination, action

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Clasp knife and napkin techniques: Step 2

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Seeing, looking, imagining, showing

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Clasp knife and napkin techniques: Step 3

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Solution to problem: simple/elaborate, quality/quantity, vision/execution, individual/comparison, delta/status quo

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Clasp knife and napkin techniques: Step 4

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Second rule in the visual thinking: who, how much, when, where, why