individual and collective creativity and critical thought

Flourishing in Creative SpacesElectronic Portfolios

The Southport SchoolJill Margerison

ePortfolios Australia Webinar

We live in a world that is networked and offers new and ever evolving tools to

be creative, collaborative and connected

Mahara, Moodle, Mobile and Web 2.0

Education for the future?If the future involves innovation and creativity, how do educators

prepare students effectively? What tools do we use?

“No Man is an Island”

Business leaders look forcreativity, innovation and ‘the edge’

Well-being experts say creativity helps people

flourish and improves individual happiness

Does creativity matter?

How do we facilitate creativity and drive their motivation to produce?

What do you get kids to do in the classroom to facilitate creativity?How do they take notes today?Who are the kids writing for?

Is a participatory learning space a creative space?

Managing this space with electronic portfoliosMaking things and producing original work

‘space’ individualphysicalvirtualgroup

creativecollaborative

conversational

Students made websites using

Group assessment - often causes troubles

Kids ‘fall out’ over lack of effort

Parents get upset

Teachers get frustrated

Difficult to measure individual progress

Group work - do you like it?

Am I creative?

Creativity manifests itself in many different forms and ‘spaces’.....

take a look at our teamhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AQe3f2JAPI

Cooperative Writing Spaces

MaharaUse of Tabs

Moodle discussion forums - used for cooperative homework tasks

Peers encouraging peers

Very powerful use of technology to inspire writing and confidence

What are we making?

When we make, who is our audience?

What are we expecting?

What does this mean for learning outcomes?

What does this mean for teaching outcomes?

What are we making?

Live interactive maps

Padlet

Animoto

You Tube

Thing Link

Flip Books

Discussion Forums

Does technology make teaching more fun?

What do you think?

Does creativity make you happy? Why?

How are we creative in English? Cooperative writing?

‘Build to Express’ LEGO for creativity

White board tables and Mahara

Garageband

Minecraft island creations

Makerspace

Seymour Papert

MIT mathematician, computer scientist and educator

inventing to learn

tinkering

having fun

James Gee

Affinity Spaces

spaces where people come together because they have strong interest or engagement in a common activity and as a result informal learning

newbies and masters share the space

people from all agesParticipatory culture develops

individual and collective creativity and critical thought

jill.margerison@tss.qld.edu.auJillMargerison@DrJMargerison

The Southport SchoolJill Margerison

E-portfolios Australia