{"product_id":"learning-and-teaching-creativity-you-can-only-imagine-paperback","title":"Learning and Teaching Creativity: You Can Only Imagine... - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDan Hunter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor teachers, students, parents, and anyone interested in creativity, \u003ci\u003eLearning and Teaching Creativity\u003c\/i\u003e by \u003cb\u003eDan Hunter\u003c\/b\u003e inspires and improves imagination. He details steps to improve student creativity through imagination. Hunter explores metacognition, teacher attitudes, exercises, ideation, and problem-solving techniques. Throughout the book there are stories of creative successes fueled by imagination: Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Franz Schubert, Sherlock Holmes, Leonardo Da Vinci, and more. Hunter clearly explains the latest neuroscience on creativity. Hunter draws on humor, extensive research, and his lifetime of practicing and teaching creative work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is for anyone looking for pathways to creativity in life or in the classroom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEducation in America is in an upheaval. We need to prepare students to adapt to innovation, generate ideas and manipulate change--which requires an agile imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLearning and Teaching Creativity\u003c\/i\u003e lays out pathways to student (and teacher) creativity with chapters on brainstorming, curiosity, flow, and finding your passion. Hunter discusses how perception, visualization, and memory are essential to imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the classroom, \u003ci\u003eLearning and Teaching Creativity\u003c\/i\u003e provides problem solving techniques, suggests teaching strategies, and discusses the value of play and pretend play.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLearning and Teaching Creativity\u003c\/i\u003e also punctures many of the myths of creativity by drawing distinctions between creativity and imagination. All humans have imagination. All ideas begin in imagination: the ability to predict outcomes, engage in counterfactual thinking, and visualize scenarios. Imagination is how you guide your life--making day-to-day decisions as well as thinking about the most profound issues humans face. You use your imagination to make plans, decide on your lunch, or choose a color to paint the back hall. But you also use your imagination to predict life in the next century or how to reverse global warming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImagination is fundamental to being human. Every human being has these skills. In fact, our ancient ancestors, \u003ci\u003eHomo erectus\u003c\/i\u003e, left traces of their imagination a million years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEveryone uses their imagination every day: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewhat would be good for lunch (predicting outcomes)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ewhat if I owned my own car (counterfactual thinking)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI bet the cafeteria is crowded now (visualizing scenarios)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you misplace your car keys, you try to visualize the keys on the kitchen counter or the back door table. This is the same imagination technique used by Einstein to visualize how light moves through the universe. There is no secret channel in the brain to visualize light in the universe. (Einstein also spent time imagining his favorite sausage for lunch.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur use of imagination is so frequent and common that it escapes our notice. It is a set of powerful skills: the steppingstones to creativity. It is also Einstein's process for choosing lunch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe also need to eliminate the self-defeating myth of creative and non-creative people. Too many people balk at the challenge of \"being creative\" as if it were a foreign way of thinking. All human beings have imagination and use it every day. Therefore, we are all capable of generating an idea or solution that may be dubbed creative. Other people may or may not designate your idea as creative. But it doesn't matter. What matters is if your solution works, if your idea improves your life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLearning and Teaching Creativity\u003c\/i\u003e is \"entertaining and inspiring,\" and \"a gift to educators and students.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLife is a challenge. Imagination is required.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.36 x 9.01 x 6.07 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 16, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47223188259065,"sku":"9781737800712","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/nyq7ILZENt9781737800712.webp?v=1768225548","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/learning-and-teaching-creativity-you-can-only-imagine-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}