What are the creativity standards you use to assess student work processes and outcomes?

This discussion post is part of the Adobe Education Exchange Professional Development Workshop, Creativity in 21st Century Classrooms: Assessing Creativity in Today’s Classrooms.

What is your opinion on assessing creativity? Is it your experience that assessment can actually foster creativity?

This discussion post is part of the Adobe Education Exchange Professional Development Workshops, Creativity in Today’s Classrooms: Assessing Creativity in Today’s Classrooms. 

Guiding questions help students think about their own learning and promote positive and constructive feedback, strongly influencing students' opinions of their own creativity (Beghetto, 2006).  For example: What path did you take to come up with this idea? What alternatives did you consider earlier on?

What are some of the guiding questions you use with students?

This discussion post is part of the Adobe Education Exchange Professional Development Workshop, Creativity in Today’s Classrooms: Assessing Creativity in Today’s Classrooms.

What is your comfort level with creativity? Are you able to inspire and lead others in fostering their own comfort with creativity in the classroom?

What successes have you had in pushing yourself to grow even more and encouraging others to promote creativity? 

This discussion post is part of the Adobe Education Exchange Professional Development Workshop Creativity in 21st Century Classrooms: Explore Creativity in Today's Classroom.

Take a look at this infographic on the Global Creativity Gap for a detailed perspective.

What information surprised you? Does the data match your experience?

This discussion post is part of the Adobe Education Exchange Professional Development Workshop, Creativity in 21st Century Classrooms: Explore Creativity in Today's Classroom.

Discuss your reaction (or beliefs) prompted by the findings from recent research by 1000 working professionals. 

Specifically:

• 57% of college educated professionals believe creativity is a learned skill that can be learned in their career, while 65% believe it is a personality trait that is innate
  
• 88% agree creativity should be built into education curriculums, and 72% agree they were more focused on subject matter than creative thinking in school
  
• 85% agree creative thinking is critical for problem solving in their career but nearly one-third (32%) do not feel comfortable thinking creatively at work
  

What can you infer from the research finding? What matters about this research finding? Why is it important?

This discussion post is part of the Adobe Education Exchange Professional Development Workshop called Creativity in 21st Century Classrooms: Explore Creativity in Today's Classroom.

What has been your experience with project-based learning as a student? As an educator? 

How can project-based learning approaches make it easier for educators to integrate the arts into STEM classrooms?

How have you seen project-based learning work in STEM and STEAM classrooms?

What are some of your favorite sources for ideas for project-based learning curricula and inspiration?

This discussion topic is linked to the Adobe Education Exchange Professional Development workshop, Integrating the Arts into STEM 201: Creating Rigorous and Relevant STEAM Projects.

The prolific and accessible creation and sharing of digital information allows for building your brand online. How have you, as an educator, built your brand? Why and what difference has it made?

Share your experience creating and implementing an interdisciplinary collage project. What was your project and who was your audience? What were your successes and challenges?

This discussion post is part of the Adobe Education Exchange Professional Development Workshop, Interdisciplinary Learning with Adobe Photoshop 201: Creating Collages

Share your experience creating and implementing an image manipulation project. What was your project and who was your audience? What were your successes and challenges?

Share your experience creating and implementing an interdisciplinary project. What was your project and who was your audience? What were your successes and challenges?

This discussion post is part of the Adobe Education Exchange Professional Development Workshop, Integrating the Arts into STEM 201: Creating Rigorous and Relevant STEAM Projects

This discussion post is part of the Adobe Education Exchange Professional Development Workshop, Integrating the Arts in to STEM 101: Intro to STEAM

Share your experience creating and implementing an infographics project. What was your project and who was your audience? What were your successes and challenges?

Share your experience creating and implementing a project that developed visual literacy through digital storytelling. What was your project and who was your audience? What were your successes and challenges? Do you feel your project enhanced visual literacy skills?

Share your experience creating and implementing a project that developed visual literacy through the study and creation of visual representations. What was your project and who was your audience? What were your successes and challenges?

Share your experience creating and implementing a data visualization project. What was your project and who was your audience? What were your successes and challenges? Do you feel your project enhanced visual literacy skills?

Interdisciplinary learning is a pedagogical approach, supported by research, that seems to have promise for helping students engage in their learning while developing 21st century skills. But what's the real-world value of this approach?

How do you see visual literacy playing a role in your students' development as digital citizens?  How do you talk to your students about the politics and ethics of using Photoshop to manipulate images?

This discussion post is part of the Adobe Education Exchange Professional Development Workshop, Interdisciplinary Learning with Adobe Photoshop 101: Editing Images

This discussion post is part of the Adobe Education ExchangeProfessional DevelopmentWorkshop,Integrating the Arts into STEM 201: Creating Rigorous and Relevant STEAM Projects

This discussion post is part of the Adobe Education Exchange Professional Development Workshop,  Integrating the Arts in to STEM 101: Intro to STEAM

How can digital storytelling build your students' visual literacy skills?

Why, in your opinion, is visual literacy an important skill to teach? How do you see visual literacy playing a role in your teaching and learning?

How can your students' data visualization projects build their visual literacy and why does it matter?

Friday, October 5th is World Teachers' Day. it's a day to honor all those teachers who make a daily difference in the lives of students all over the world. 

Let's use this discussion topic to share stories or words of wisdom from a teacher that has made a difference in your life. It's always inspiring to hear from others about the ways that teachers have shaped our lives and helped us get to where we are today. And it will help remind us all why we do what we do.

A new school year is starting soon for our members in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Many educators are gearing up to teach the new Creative Suite 6 for the first time. 

Adobe has created a wealth of free resources to teach your students CS6. They are all available here: http://www.adobe.com/go/cs6onaee. 

What other resources do you know of that will help educators get started teaching Creative Suite 6?