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Workshop Overview:
==**This workshop examines creativity and how we can foster and develop creative thinking skills in our students to help them think outside the box. Participants will practice several divergent thinking strategies that they can use with their students for creating new ideas. They will also examine convergent thinking strategies and their importance in solving real world problems. Finally, the participants will explore how they can use images to spark creative and critical thinking in their students. **==

Workshop Objectives:

 * ====**Participants will be able to use divergent thinking strategies to develop creative thinking with students. **====
 * ====**Participants will be able to use convergent thinking strategies to develop critical thinking with students. **====
 * ====**Participants will be able to use the “Visual Thinking Strategy” with their students. **====
 * ====**Participants will be able to identify the attributes of a creative person. **====
 * ====**Participants will be able to proceed through a creative thinking process. **====
 * ====**Participants will be able to use the “Back of the Napkin” strategy with their students. **====
 * ====**Participants will be able to use brainstorming as an instructional strategy for developing new ideas. **====

General Resources
[|The Academy of Achievement] The mission of this website is to give students a face-to-face opportunity to hear from the leaders, visionaries, and pioneers who helped shape our world. [|Creativity Links] [|Creativity Tools] [|The Creativity Portal] [|Left or Right Brain Test] [|Cloud Appreciation Society Gallery]

Problem Solving Tools
[|The Word Pages] [|Starbursting] [|Random Picture Technique] [|bubbl.us] [|WhyNot?] [|Egg Timer]

Visual Thinking Strategies
[|Visual Thinking Strategies] [|Teacher Interview About Visual Thinking Strategies]

Creative Lessons
[|500+ Creative Lessons to Teach Almost Anything]

Creative Inventions
[|Top 10 American Inventions] [|10 Inventions that Shaped America] [|Impact of Invention Login] [|What in the world will the future bring?]

Creativity & Advertising
[|Clever and Creative Billboard Advertising] [|10 Creative Advertising Ideas from Students] [|Creativity in Advertisement]

Creativity Assessment
[|How Creative are You?] [|Right Brain vs Left Brain Creativity Test]

Creative School Mascots
[|How the University of Idaho Became the Vandals] [|The Anteater Mascot] [|The Banana Slug] [|The Trinity Christian College Trolls]

Videos
[|Sir Ken Robinson - Schools Kill Creativity] [|Jonas Salk Interview] [|Bill Gates Interview] [|Gregg Fraley - Creative Thinking] [|Steven Johnson - Where Good Ideas Com From] [|Steve Jobs Tells Us a Secret] [|ISTE - Computational Thinking: A Digital Age Skill for Everyone] [|Dr. Keith Black Interview]