Imaginative. Innovative. Ingenious. These words describe the visionaries we all respect and admire. And they can describe you, too. Contrary to common belief, creativity is not a gift some of us are born with. It is a skill that all of us can learn. International bestselling author and award-winning Stanford University educator Tina Seelig has worked with some of the business world’s best and brightest, who are now among the decision-makers at companies such as Google, Genentech, IBM, and Cisco. In inGenius she expertly demystifies creativity, offering a set of tools and guidelines that anyone can use. A fantastic resource for everyone wanting to achieve their ambitions, and for readers of Jason Fried’s Rework, and Seth Godin’s Poke the Box.

Creativity is the very life blood of human civilization. It is the potentiality which influences human activity in almost all spheres of life. Most of the changes and advancements in the society are the products of creativity. The future of the mankind mainly depends upon the creative abilities of its people. Considering the importance of creativity, this study has been taken up to study the creativity of junior college students. The results indicate that girls are better in creativity than boys, rural students are poor in their creativity than their counterparts, high creative students are characterised by high intelligence, science students are with high creativity than arts students, and high creatives are from high socio-economic status families. Contents: Introduction, Review of Related Research Studies, Statement of the Problem and Hypotheses, Variables of the Study, Method of Investigation, Results and Discussion, Summary and Conclusions, Educational Implications, Limitations and Suggestions for Further Research.

This book examines the increasing popularity of creativity and play in tertiary learning, and how it can be harnessed to enhance the student experience at university. While play is often misunderstood as something ‘trivial’ and associated with early years education, the editors and contributors argue that play contributes to social and human development and relations at a fundamental level. This volume invalidates the commonly held assumption that play is only for children, drawing together numerous case studies from higher education that demonstrate how researchers, students and managers can benefit from play as a means of liberating thought, overturning obstacles and discovering fresh approaches to persistent challenges. This diverse and wide-ranging edited collection unites play theory and practice to address the gulf in research on this fascinating topic. It will be of interest and value to educators, students and scholars of play and creativity, as well as practitioners and academic leaders looking to incorporate play into the curriculum.

Welcome to the fun world of creativity and an 8-rung ladder to solve problems creatively in college. This book brings together the modern creativity triggers that provide the skills necessary for success.Ranging from clarifying problems to the creation of action plans, with idea generation and idea sorting in between, this amazing book introduces students to the fun in creative effort in college. High quality solutions easily appear after enjoyable efforts to generate and select from new perspectives and ideas that create new possibilities. Everyone in college wants to achieve high quality solutions to problems. Your success depends on it. Yet few students have access to the new creativity triggers that lead to the highest-level outcomes. These creativity triggers focus people on the real issues within a problem and on its quality solution.In this book, you will find three types of creativity triggers to help solve problems creatively when working alone or in groups: - First, use creativity triggers to shift paradigms and produce unexpected ideas (Chapter 11).- Second, use creativity triggers that change the creative climate so new ideas flourish (Chapter 7).- Third, use creativity triggers that stop pigeonholing people, including yourself, so you stop stifling creative thinking (Chapter 6). Here's what else you will find:- What creativity really is and the many reasons to be creative, including the fun involved (Chapters 1 & 2).- How to unblock yourself from 'writer's block' and 'idea-generating block' using "automatic writing" (Chapter 4).- Advanced creativity triggers to carry out the three key creative steps to shift paradigms and solve problems more creatively (Chapter 8). -Creativity triggers for permanent creativity groups formed from students in your college (Chapter 19).- Puzzles that illuminate your habits and traps that block you from unexpected, new ideas Chapter 6).- How low and high conformers approach creativity differently, and how to get along with both types (Appendices IV & V).- Habits that spoil creative thinking, and the triggers to avoid them (Chapter 6). This book can work for you. The results ultimately depend on your commitment to alter habits and apply new creativity triggers to your problems. Enjoy. WELL WORTH OWNING

Developing Creativity in the Classroom applies the most current theory and research on creativity to support the design of teaching and learning. Creative thinking and problem solving are at the heart of learning and application as students prepare for innovation-driven careers. This text debunks myths about creativity and teaching and, instead, illustrates productive conceptions of creative thinking and innovation, including a constructivist learning approach in which creative thinking enhances and strengthens conceptual understanding of the curriculum. Through models of teaching that support creativity and problem solving, this book extends the idea of a creative pedagogy to the four core curriculum domains. Developing Creativity in the Classroom focuses on explanations and examples of how creative thinking and deep learning merge to support engaging learning environments, rising to the challenge of developing 21st-century competencies.