• Understanding & accepting creative behaviors is vital to the growth of creativity.
• School and home environments can be designed to incite creativity.
• All creative endeavors include a major dose of "going rogue."

What If?

Dr. John Dacey states the “what if” activity “is a great way to encourage a laid-back, nonjudgmental approach to open-ended thinking.”

Perhaps the most important question even uttered by humans is “What if?” Take a moment and think about what our world would be like without the provocations of “What if” questioning?

We are all familiar with the following afterschool refrain: “What did you do in school today?”  “Nothin’.” Ready to get more dendrites involved? Give these a try:

• What did you wonder about today?
• What did you consider today?
• What do you predict might happen tomorrow?
• How have you stretched your brain today?
• What confused you today?
• What did you challenge today?
• What did you question today?

Research shows that the typical teacher asks 300 - 400 questions during the school day. Most of these questions are “low level”, requiring the students to focus on the memorization and recall of facts.

What if

• this was reversed and students were asking the greater number of questions?
• all low-level questions were done with APPS & other Augmented Intelligence devices
• more time was allotted for “What if” discussions?
• we all had six fingers?

Creativity = Creative Thinking + Critical Thinking + Creative Productivity!