1.2 Educator’s notes

There is no prescriptive method of how to use this content in your teaching. How you include it in your delivery will depend on many factors, including your classroom environment and how much prior knowledge your students have of reflective practice.

Things you can do with this content:

• Use the questions in the Reflect boxes to guide discussions on creative thinking
• Create tailored lessons teaching creative thinking and innovation by selecting relevant information and activities and combining it on your own platform.
• Use the examples in the chapter as models to scaffold your students’ work by looking at them together in class or asking students to review them outside of class.
• Include a link to this chapter as a support resource for students doing assessment tasks which require critical thinking skills and/or innovation.
• Enhance your students’ understanding of creative thinking within their specific field by using the examples, case studies, and scenarios as supplementary material.
• Use the industry-focused examples and scenarios to inform and motivate students who might not fully appreciate that creative thinking is a crucial skill for all disciplines, not something only artists and designers need.

For more ideas, check out the general suggestions in the Educator’s guide in the Front Matter.

Integration, accessibility, and inclusion

Please read the sections on integration and accessibility in the Educator’s guide. This is where you will find information on the practicalities and best practices of taking, adapting, and using this open educational content, such as importing it into your LMS, downloading .h5p files, attributing and adding the correct licensing information, and ensuring the content is accessible and inclusive.

Resources

The content in this chapter was developed through the adaptation of selected Open Educational Resources (OERs) and the creation of original content.

In cases where content is not an OER or licensing is unclear, the original source has been linked and/or clearly sourced. This is the case for the embedded YouTube videos.

Pages that do not list OER attributions contain only original content unless otherwise referenced.

This resource list also includes academic sources which helped inform the adapted OERs or original content.

Creative thinking and developing creative thinking

College Success by Lumen Learning, licensed under CC BY (Original: Creative Thinking Skills by Linda Bruce, Lumen Learning, licensed under CC BY) (OER)

Critical thinking web: Creativity by Joe Lau & Johnathan Chan, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA (OER)

Leading Innovation, 2nd Edition by Kerri Shields is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA (OER)

TED-Ed video: The power of creative constraints by Brandon Rodriguez, embedded from YouTube, unless otherwise indicated TED-Ed talks are licensed under CC BY-NC-ND (Video)

World Economic Forum. (2023). The Future of Jobs Report 2023. Retrieved from https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2023/. (Linked external source)

World Economic Forum (2021, February 23). Exercise not only helps with mental health – it makes us more creative too, say scientists. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/exercise-mental-health-creativity/ (Linked external source)

Dam, R. F. and Teo, Y. S. (2020, August 16). Understand the Elements and Thinking Modes that Create Fruitful Ideation Sessions. Interaction Design Foundation – IxDF. https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/understand-the-elements-and-thinking-modes-that-create-fruitful-ideation-sessions (Linked external source)

University of California (2009, June 9). Let Me Sleep On It: Creative Problem Solving Enhanced By REM Sleep. Science Daily. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090608130556.htm (Linked external source)