"Chance Favors the Connected Mind"
| | Creativity and Innovation We will begin our collaborative session with this short video from the RSA Animate lecture series. In this video, Steve Johnson, an incredibly innovative and popular thinker, takes on one of our key questions: Where do good ideas come from? Steve dissects the spaces that traditionally produce the emergence of innovative and creative ideas. |
| PART ONE LOGIN TO | Using Google Chrome, go to Google.com, and login with your deeprunwildcats.org account information. If you don't know how to do this, simply turn and collaborate with person nearest you. |
| PART TWO DIVIDE | To make this lesson more efficient, the entire faculty will be divided into two distinct groups. We will call these groups A and B. This will allow us to cover more content in less time. |
| PART THREE VISIT THE LINK & MAKE A COPY [2 MINUTES] | Click the appropriate link below according to which group you were assigned. ......................................................................................................... Group A members should click here ......................................................................................................... Group B member should click here ......................................................................................................... Once you have logged into Google, and have visited the appropriate link, you will need to make a copy of the presentation so that you can manipulate it without disrupting the original. To do this, look in the upper left and select: File > Make a copy Then, rename your copy something that intuitively makes sense to you. To rename the presentation, click the title in the upper left portion of the document that reads "copy of..." |
| PART FOUR SKIM, EDIT, & ARRANGE [5 MINUTES] | Now that you have the presentation in order, take the next 5 minutes to quickly skim the content, delete the slides that you don't think are relevant, and leave yourself with 3-5 slides that are relevant. Do this quickly based on your initial gut reactions. And please be sure you are not deleting slides from the original! Once you have narrowed the entire list down to 3-5 slides, you should quickly put them into a rank order of how relevant the techniques are to All Subjects. Keep the best ideas at the top. Feel free to create your own slides that describe better teaching techniques that are much more relevant to all teachers than those I provided today. Ideally, you have much better ideas those shared today, and your ideas will make it to the final list to be shared with the faculty at a later date. |
| PART FIVE GROUP DISCUSSION & DEBATE [15 MINUTES] | Now let the debate begin. Get into smaller groups of about 5 teachers, and try to sit with some new people in order to establish more unity among the entire faculty. The main goal of today's activity is to promote a dialogue among professionals about good teaching practices, Create a list, using paper or your computer, of your group's top 5 most relevant and effective concepts from your group's list of slides, and rank them in order of Relevance to All Teachers. If your group discussed other concepts that are More Relative and More Effective... please put those in your top 5 list! |
| PART SIX VOTE [2 MINUTES] | The top 14 choices refer to Group A, and the bottom 14 refer to Group B. |
| SUMMARY LEAVE FEEDBACK [ON YOUR TIME] | Below is a space to leave feedback about today's instructional faculty meeting. This is not mandatory, but it will be appreciated. If there is information that you'd like to add to the presentation, or just some constructive feedback about how today could have been more effective, please fill out the comment section below. |
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