Promoting inventiveness in the classroom

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The skills inherent in inventiveness— the form of creativity leading to invention and innovation— are important for all students to master. Inventiveness includes brainstorming, thinking differently, elaborating, and producing a solution.

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BOOKS ON THE TOPIC

• Spencer & Julian: LAUNCH - Using design thinking to boost creativity and bring out the maker in every student
• Beaty: Rosie Revere, engineer
• Yamada: What do you do with an idea
• Spires: The most magnificent thing
• Brown: Change by design
• Kelley: The art of innovation
• Berger: A more beautiful question
• Berger: The book of beautiful questions

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OVERVIEW OF INVENTIVENESS

• Definition from kids.net.au
• National Invention Convention Guidelines
• Invent Iowa: K-12 instructional activity guide
• Invent Iowa: Inventiveness rubric (PDF)
• NCCE Rubric with descriptors
• TRIZ: A powerful methodology for creative problem solving
• TRIZ method​
• Inventiveness in education

PEDAGOGY

• Schrock: SAMR and Bloom's Taxonomy
• Roberts: Turning SAMR into TECH
• Miller: Ditch that textbook
• ​ISTE: Student standards
• Paula Don: Innovative designer standard (p. 35)​
• Lesson plans and ideas
• Schrock: Promoting inventiveness in the classroom

THE THINKING PROCESS

• Why creativity in the classroom matters more than ever
• Krueger: Unleashing every genius
• Goodman: Fueling creativity through divergent thinking
• Design thinking for innovation
• Online newspaper designer
• Newspaper templates for GDocs
• Downloadable PPT/Keynote/Slides template
• Schrock: Design thinking resources
• Cymerman: How to teach design thinking
• Tallyfy's design thinking process
• Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (Stanford)​
• TRIZ: A powerful methodology for creative problem solving
• Entrepreneur: 21 ways to unlock creative genius
• TRIZ method​​
• Developing personas
• Invention/innovation brainstorming sheet
• POV: The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
• POV: Two Bad Ants
• Brainstorming stages
• Eight ways to cultivate more inventiveness at work
• XO computer video 
• Helping students come up with a problem (3 column choice)

CLASSROOM EXAMPLES AND CURRICULUM

• Kim Miller: New toy inventions
• BC applied design, skills, and technologies curriculum

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APPS AND TOOLS

EMPATHIZE	DEFINE	IDEATE
​Polling tools Poll Everywhere Survey Monkey Facebook polls Twitter polls Google Forms Flipgrid	​Database tools Filemaker Pro Kohezion Wufoo Airtable Ninox (iOS) Momento  Database (Android)	Mapping tools Popplet MindMaple Coggle Miro NovaMind Lucid
Social media Twitter ​ Facebook Instagram Mastodon	​	Real-time collaboration tools Miro Padlet Stormboard
Experts Google Meet Zoom​ Skype Skype in the classroom ​FaceTime	​	Curation tools Microsoft OneNote (iOS) (Android) Feedly Scoop.it Symbaloo
Online sites Empatico (ages 6-11) ​Competencies for teaching empathy ​4 strategies for teaching empathy ​Developing empathy MS lesson plan ​Showing empathy HS lesson plan ​Empathy in your classroom activities		Value

PROTOTYPE	TEST	IMPLEMENT	REFLECT
​Prototyping tools Padlet SketchUp Koma Koma app Animation Desk app Para Para Animation Google Slides animation Lucid ​	Testing tools​ Twitter Google Plus ​ Facebook Online feedback tools ​	Implementing tools Adobe Spark tools Anchor.fm​ Google Meet Livestorm MeetingBurner Weebly Zoom	​​Journaling tools Penzu (iOS) (Android) Blogger OneNote Flipgrid Evernote

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Great introductions to aspects of the design thinking process and the inventiveness mindset

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Three videos of great books to support inventiveness

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Last update: 05/31/2023
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