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For this assignment, we are using information found at **Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21**). P21 is a national organization that advocates for 21st century readiness for every student. Information from the P21website has been included on this page to make your task today easier. After this project, some material will be removed in order to comply with copyright law.

=Learning and Innovation Skills: Old concepts presented and implemented in new ways. =

Learning and innovation skills increasingly are being recognized as the skills that separate students who are prepared for increasingly complex life and work environments in the 21st century, and those who are not. A focus on creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration is essential to prepare students for the future.
 * Creativity and Innovation
 * Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
 * Communication and Collaboration

Creativity and Innovation
__It involves the skills of flexibility, originality, fluency, elaboration, brainstorming, modification, imagery, associative thinking, attribute listing, metaphorical thinking, forced relationships. The aim of creative thinking is to stimulate curiosity and promote divergence.__


 * // ﻿ ﻿While critical thinking can be thought of as more left-brain and creative thinking more right brain, they both involve "thinking." When we talk about HOTS "higher-order thinking skills" we're concentrating on the top three levels of Bloom's Taxonomy: analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. //**
 * //Think Creatively //**
 * Use a wide range of idea creation techniques (such as brainstorming)
 * Create new and worthwhile ideas (both incremental and radical concepts)
 * Elaborate, refine, analyze and evaluate their own ideas in order to improve and maximize creative efforts
 * //Work Creatively with Others //**
 * Develop, implement and communicate new ideas to others effectively
 * Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives; incorporate group input and feedback into the work
 * Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and understand the real world limits to adopting new ideas
 * View failure as an opportunity to learn; understand that creativity and innovation is a long-term, cyclical process of small successes and frequent mistakes


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Implement Innovations// **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful contribution to the field in which the innovation will occur

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Additional resources related to creativity and innovation are listed below: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. [|**Critical and Creative Thinking - Bloom's Taxonomy**] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discussion of Bloom's taxonomy and critical thinking, creativity <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. [|**Sir Ken Robinson website**] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Expert on creativity and innovation <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. [|**National Governors Association Video on Creativity & Innovation**] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sir Ken Robinson, expert on creativity and innovation, delivers a presentation that discusses creativity and 21st century skills <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. [|**Race Matters - Where Jobs Are**] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Reprint - no subscription required) May 2004 opinion editorial published in New York Times, authors W. Michael Cox, Richard Alm and Nigel Holmes, with a chart displaying the importance of creative jobs in the future. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. [|**Op-Chart; Where the Jobs Are - New York Times**] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Subscription only.) May 2004 opinion editorial published in New York Times, authors W. Michael Cox, Richard Alm and Nigel Holmes, with a chart displaying the importance of creative jobs in the future. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6. [|**Creativity: See what people are saying right now on Technorati**] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Technorati index on creativity. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7. [|**"The Creative Act" - Marcel Duchamp**] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thought provoking essay: "All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualification and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives a final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists." <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8. [|**Harnad, Stevan (1990) Creativity: Method or Magic?**] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Academic essay on creativity. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">9. [|**Main Page - Mycoted**] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mycoted is dedicated to improving Creativity and Innovation for solving problems woldwide, with that in mind, we provide a central repository for Creativity and Innovation on the Internet as a summary of tools, techniques, mind exercises, puzzles and books. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10. [|**Business Creativity & Innovation**] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Interactive map of the creative process. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">11. [|**Anti-Knowledge**] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Website which features an online book with chapter on creativity.

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