Session 1: The Creativity Challenge & Technology Enabled Creative Learning (TECL).
“Creativity is now as important in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.”
Sir Ken Robinson
- The creativity challenge and contemporary education
- Experiential, embodied and aesthetic learning
- Learning through a pedagogy of creativity
- Managing learner inhibition thresholds: live and online
- The cost of stifling creativity at a young age
- Teaching as a creative career.
Session 2: TECL: Goals and Outcomes for Learning
“Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.”
Pete Hein, Poet, Architect and Mathematician
- Clarifying and sharing goals, intentions & criteria for success; questions that guide
- Deploying Expressive Outcomes (from Eliot Eisner) alongside behavioural objectives and related goals.
- Transforming learning by crafting a spectrum of expressivity in your courses.
Session 3: TECL: Instructional Activities and Hyflexing
“A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.”
Shigeru Miyamoto, Pioneering Nintendo Game Developer
- Work intensification and time-saving learning design
- Applying instructional activities to build creative learning pathways
- Definitions: Hyflexing with Live, Synchronous and Asynchronous delivery
- Acquire the skills to construct basic Reusable Learning Objects (RLO)
- Use the art and science of wholistic structure to amplify the adventure of learning.
Session 4: The principles of TECL
“I try to set boundaries in order to create space.”
Nel Aerts, Painter, Collage and Textiles Maker
- Manipulate the four dimensions of TECL to produce dynamic learning designs
- Applying TECL principles to instructional activities and learning pathways
- TECL as artful design practice.
Session 5: TECL: Making learning Personal and Significant
“I use and play with other artists’ work all the time.”
Jonathan Monk, Painter and Designer
- ‘Hacking’ resources from the world
- Incorporating seven strategies to make learning personal and significant
- Learning design for social learning: managing productive ambiguity
- Students as authentic partners in learning.
- Elevating student choice over rigid course structures.
Session 6: Embedding TECL through Retrieval Practice
“Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you’ll get a much better movie out of it.”
Andrew Stanton, Filmmaker and screenwriter.
- Retrieval Practice: TECL at your fingertips of memory
- Developing the connoisseurship of critique
- Judging value and efficacy in whole-of-course design
- Anticipating confusion and boredom in learning pathways.
- Using subtleties and nuances to build adventure and alliance in courses.
