logging in or signing up Creativity Strategies for Research aSGuest8761 Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 280 Category: Product Traini.. License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: January 02, 2009 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Creativity and Generating Research Ideas : Creativity and Generating Research Ideas Strategies from the field--- Joyce E. Juntune, Ph.D. Department of Educational Psychology Institute for Applied Creativity http://creativity.tamu.edu Creativity & Generating Ideas : 2 Creativity & Generating Ideas Creative thinking requires that we think in new directions. Breaking Mental Set : 3 Breaking Mental Set Thinking outside of boundaries - a deliberate act Creativity & Generating Ideas : 4 Creativity & Generating Ideas Creative thinking gives you an edge—a way to look at things differently. Ideas have a life span : 5 Ideas have a life span Why new ways of thinking-- Grow? develop? serve a purpose? need to be buried and go on to create new ideas Meet change with new ideas : 6 Meet change with new ideas Invention of telegraph Pony Express? bought faster horses That failed? hired better riders That failed? went out of business Creativity & Generating Ideas : 7 Creativity & Generating Ideas Strategies Focus Information Focus (deBono) : 8 Focus (deBono) Area Focus separate “where” & “why” spend time “just thinking” about … Focus (deBono) : 9 Focus (deBono) “New ideas for…” “Ideas around the subject of…” Focus (deBono) : 10 Focus (deBono) Area Focus Focus creative energies on opportunities as well as problems Wrong ? fix! Working ? why? Focus (deBono) : 11 Focus (deBono) Area Focus Build a creative hit list. Movement Ladder : 12 Movement Ladder Focus: improve achievement scores in low SES schools Why? How? Why else? Why else? How else? How else? decrease drop-out rate tutors Random Entry (deBono) : 13 Used to generate unique ideas. Great for idea improvement Random Entry (deBono) Random Entry (deBono) : 14 Select a random object. Write the object word. List words that come to mind when thinking of the object . Random Entry (deBono) Random Entry (deBono) : 15 See where the random word leads your thoughts on the Focus. Random Entry (deBono) Slide 16: 16 Random Object Trigger Words Focus New Ideas Random Entry (deBono) Creativity & Generating Ideas : 17 Combination and collaboration leads to new ideas and insights. Creativity & Generating Ideas Slide 18: 18 Combine unrelated ideas Zones of Acceptance : Zones of Acceptance acceptance indifference rejection Sherif, M. (1961). Univ. of Oklahoma, Slide 20: 20 Creative thinkers create order in disorder & disorder in order (Montouri, 1996) Creativity& Generating Ideas Creative strategies : 21 Creative strategies Force a shift in perspective See a different point of view Provide new input to improve output Slide 22: 22 The future belongs to people who see possibilities before they become obvious. Ted Levitt Creativity& Generating Ideas You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
Creativity Strategies for Research aSGuest8761 Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 280 Category: Product Traini.. License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: January 02, 2009 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Creativity and Generating Research Ideas : Creativity and Generating Research Ideas Strategies from the field--- Joyce E. Juntune, Ph.D. Department of Educational Psychology Institute for Applied Creativity http://creativity.tamu.edu Creativity & Generating Ideas : 2 Creativity & Generating Ideas Creative thinking requires that we think in new directions. Breaking Mental Set : 3 Breaking Mental Set Thinking outside of boundaries - a deliberate act Creativity & Generating Ideas : 4 Creativity & Generating Ideas Creative thinking gives you an edge—a way to look at things differently. Ideas have a life span : 5 Ideas have a life span Why new ways of thinking-- Grow? develop? serve a purpose? need to be buried and go on to create new ideas Meet change with new ideas : 6 Meet change with new ideas Invention of telegraph Pony Express? bought faster horses That failed? hired better riders That failed? went out of business Creativity & Generating Ideas : 7 Creativity & Generating Ideas Strategies Focus Information Focus (deBono) : 8 Focus (deBono) Area Focus separate “where” & “why” spend time “just thinking” about … Focus (deBono) : 9 Focus (deBono) “New ideas for…” “Ideas around the subject of…” Focus (deBono) : 10 Focus (deBono) Area Focus Focus creative energies on opportunities as well as problems Wrong ? fix! Working ? why? Focus (deBono) : 11 Focus (deBono) Area Focus Build a creative hit list. Movement Ladder : 12 Movement Ladder Focus: improve achievement scores in low SES schools Why? How? Why else? Why else? How else? How else? decrease drop-out rate tutors Random Entry (deBono) : 13 Used to generate unique ideas. Great for idea improvement Random Entry (deBono) Random Entry (deBono) : 14 Select a random object. Write the object word. List words that come to mind when thinking of the object . Random Entry (deBono) Random Entry (deBono) : 15 See where the random word leads your thoughts on the Focus. Random Entry (deBono) Slide 16: 16 Random Object Trigger Words Focus New Ideas Random Entry (deBono) Creativity & Generating Ideas : 17 Combination and collaboration leads to new ideas and insights. Creativity & Generating Ideas Slide 18: 18 Combine unrelated ideas Zones of Acceptance : Zones of Acceptance acceptance indifference rejection Sherif, M. (1961). Univ. of Oklahoma, Slide 20: 20 Creative thinkers create order in disorder & disorder in order (Montouri, 1996) Creativity& Generating Ideas Creative strategies : 21 Creative strategies Force a shift in perspective See a different point of view Provide new input to improve output Slide 22: 22 The future belongs to people who see possibilities before they become obvious. Ted Levitt Creativity& Generating Ideas