Not all Native Wit: From Creativity to Ingenuity

Not all native wit: From Creativity to Ingenuity
Ewin McIntosh, National advisor: Learning and Technology Futures

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www.LTScotland.org.uk

It's not all native wit
from creativity to ingenuity
anyone can be creative it is ingenuity that we need
give a button to a teacher and they ask what can I do with it
give a button to a kid and they just use it

5 points
1. you as a human being have to be interesting and to be interesting you have to be interested ...in everything
Ewin's blog is his property if you don't like it don't visit it
spends about 30 min per day writing on the blog
does not write if he has nothing to say
Bookmark collection - delicious
people send thing you might be interested in - research and development
Flickr - images start a conversation
Facebook - able to see what others are doing
Aggregator - group of experts
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UK kids 60 a week on computer at school and 200 minutes a week on computer at home
UK 2 billion spend on Ed technology and they found that 1.6 billion is waisted on technology in schools not used
Technology is not transformative, it is what you do with it

Microsoft has 10% fewer staff then McDonalds - not enough staff to do things

old technology - push button teaching machine some companies are still selling this
image of box with push buttons with student selecting answer

Tool that brings most people together - email -it is said to be intuitive
When we call something intuitive we often mean Familiar ...Esther Dyson

90 % of 15-25 year olsd have visited their social network in the past month
3rd biggest country in the world: MySpace

Using their space

Hermann von Helmholtz
Saturation - emerge yourself into as much stuff as you can (Divergent and complete is necessary for creativity)
incubation - uncomfortable feeling leave thing to settle (with no deadlines, no stress)
Illumination - you have an idea it comes retrospectively (to a big crowd)

Divergent thinking is vital
map of US with varying colors of green - are we really sick darker color is amount of drugs dispensed for ADHD
more children are not getting ADHD perhaps it is more children are bored so we put them on drugs

quallity teachers are the most important factor in the
The quality of an education system cannot exceeet eh
Deliver for every child.

What does this mean - image of two rolls of toilet paper one with triangel fold other without, others with sticker so you know you are unlocking the roll, toilet paper sculpture - images from flickr

YouTube video Color changing card trick video about changing the color of the cards but actually other items in the video changed color

Change pedagogy that children need input before they can have output
We see a pedagogy and decide that it works or doesn't without trying it
System needs to encourage every child, a change needs to happen in school system

achieving shared awareness of our goals
Is creativity taught or caught?
Tools you can teach but it is not about tools
risk-free creativity

more mobile phone users then internet users
cell phones is where the action is

Allow "Shared awareness"
engineers need a big problem to find solutions to the problems

4. participation culture
we'ge got to understant participation culture, not tools
not about public and private but lots of gray areas
identity 2.0
Secret spaces
Group spaces
publishing spaces
performing spaces - pretent to be someone else
watching spaces

How many friends do you really have?

What simple tools help learning become remarkable?
How can your create a shared awareness?
What changes would you make to get small units of practices to make big changes?