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Chapter 6: Creative Thinking Skills

 Learning Objectives
LO1: Define creative thinking
LO2: Identify the value of creative thinking in
education
LO3: Describe the impact of limitations (such as rules)
on creative thinking
LO4: Describe the role of creative thinking skills in
problem-solving

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 Table of Content

1
• Define Creative Thinking

2
• Creative Thinking in Education

3
• How to Stimulate Creative Thinking

4
• Creative Thinking Fiction and Facts

5
• Problem-Solving with Creative Thinking

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 1. Creative Thinking
Everybody has a creative potential and from the
moment you can express this creative potential, you
can start changing the world – (Paulo Coelho, author
and lyricist)

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 1. Creative Thinking
Everyone has creative abilities: It’s
true of everyone who fully expresses
creative abilities as well as those who
express them very little or not at all.
All humans are innately creative,
especially if creativity is understood as
a problem-solving skill.
Creativity is inspired when there is a
problem to solve. A creative thinker is
curious, optimistic, imaginative.
Creativity can be understood as a skill,
opposed to an inborn talent or natural
“gift”, that can be taught and learned.
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 1. Creative Thinking

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 1. Creative Thinking
Activity 1: Solve the problems

Move the trees to make

5 rows with 4 trees
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 1. Creative Thinking
Activity 1: Solutions

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 2. Creative Thinking in Education
College is great ground for enhancing creative thinking
skills. These are some college activities that can
stumulate creative thinking. Are any familiar to you?
Design sample exam questions to test your knowledge as you
study for a final.
Devise a social media strategy for a club on campus.
Propose an education plan for a major you are designing for
yourself.
Prepare a speech that you will give in a debate in your course.
Develop a pattern for a costume in a theatrical production.
Arrange audience seats in your classroom to maximize
attention during your presentation.
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 3. How to Stimulate Creative Thinking
Six strategies to stimulate your
creative thinking:
Sleep on it
Go for a run or hit the gym
Allow your mind to wander a few
times every day
Keep learning
Put yourself in nerve-racking situation
once in a while to fire up your brain
Keep a notebook with you so you
always have a way to record fleeting
thoughts
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 A Brainstorm of Tips for Creative Thinking
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
(Linus Pauling, double Nobel Laureate, chemist)
Sensing
Use all your senses—see, taste, smell, touch, hear, think, speak.
Be a good observer of people, nature, and events around you.
Thinking
Engage thinking on the right side of your brain (intuition, open-
mindedness, visual perception, rhythm . . .).
Change your interpretation of an event, situation, behavior,
person, or object.
Allow ideas to incubate.
Be open to insight as ideas pop into your mind.
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 A Brainstorm of Tips for Creative Thinking
Imagining
Brainstorm by generating ideas with a group of people.
Ask, “What would happen if . . .”
Ask, “In how many different ways . . .”
Develop ideas and expand their possibilities.
Envision the future.
Speaking and Writing
Use your words, your “voice” when conveying original ideas.
Avoid using overly familiar responses to questions or problems.
Explain how your ideas move beyond the status quo and
contribute to a discussion.
Take notes.
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 A Brainstorm of Tips for Creative Thinking
Drawing
Use mind-mapping to capture ideas; start with a key concept
and write it in the center of your page; use connecting lines,
radiating from the central concept, and write down any
connected or related ideas that come to you.
Create pictures or drawings of situations (“rich pictures”) to
show them in a different way.
Learning
Find ways to demonstrate your personal investment in projects.
Gather knowledge and conduct research.
Have more fun learning!

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 A Brainstorm of Tips for Creative Thinking
Moving
Do physical activities to engage the creative areas of your
brain and think differently.
Resting
Have more fun learning!

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 4. Creative Thinking Fiction and Facts

FICTION AND FACTS

The best
Every Ideas either
answer or
problem has Creative come or they
solution or
only one answers are don’t. Nothing
method has
solution (or technologically will help —
already
one right complex certainly not
been
answer) structure.
discovered

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 4. Creative Thinking Fiction and Facts
FICTION 1: Every problem has only one solution (or
one right answer)

FACT 1:
Most problems can be solved in any number of ways.
If you discover a solution that works, it’s a good solution.
Other people may think up solutions that differ from
yours, but that doesn’t make your solution wrong or
unimportant.

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 4. Creative Thinking Fiction and Facts
FICTION 2: The best answer or solution or method has
already been discovered

FACT 2:
Look at the history of any solution and you’ll see that
improvements, new solutions, and new right answers are
always being found.
The ox or horse, the cart, the wagon, the train, the car,
the airplane, the jet, the space shuttle? What is the best
and last?
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 4. Creative Thinking Fiction and Facts
FICTION 3: Creative answers are technologically
complex

FACT 3:
Only a few problems require complex technological
solutions
Most problems you face need only a thoughtful solution
involving personal action and perhaps a few simple tools.
Even many problems that seem to require technology can
be addressed in other ways.
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 4. Creative Thinking Fiction and Facts
FICTION 4: Ideas either come or they don’t. Nothing
will help – certainly not structure.

FACT 4:
There are many successful techniques for generating
ideas. One important technique is to include structure.
Create guidelines, limiting parameters, and concrete goals
for yourself that stimulate and shape your creativity.

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 5. Problem-Solving with Creative Thinking
Creative problem-solving is a type of problem-solving.
It involves searching for new and novel solutions to
problems.
Unlike critical thinking, which scrutinizes assumptions
and uses reasoning, creative thinking is about
generating alternative ideas – practices and solutions
that are unique and effective.
It’s about facing muddy and unclear problems and
seeing how “things” can be done differently - how new
solutions can be imagined.

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 Brainstorming

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 Rules of Brainstorming

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 Brainstorming Technique

Ideas Generation

Ideas Combination

Evaluation & Validation

Generate New Ideas

Selection of Best Ideas

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 Activity: Brainstorming
Project Start Up
"Social initiative"
Discuss in small groups, propose a creative social
initiative, to solve any problem in today's society

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