Creativity

**Video:** ====Watch Sir Ken Robinson's [|Do School's Kill Creativity?] 20 minute speech on TED (Technology, Entertainment, & Design) Talks from June 27, 2006 - explaining why it is time education placed creative activities on an equal footing with traditional academic studies. ====

[|The Creativity Crisis] by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
22 Simple Ideas for Harnessing Creativity in the Classroom 18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently

They pander to an easy, unchallenging notion that all you have to do is let your natural creativity out of its shell. “There are some techniques that do boost the creative process: **Don’t tell someone to ‘be creative.’** From [|Forget Brainstorming]

Such an instruction may just cause people to freeze up. However, according to the University of Georgia’s Mark Runco, there is a suggestion that works: “Do something only you would come up with—that none of your friends or family would think of.” When Runco gives this advice in experiments, he sees the number of creative responses double.”