4. 8:45 Why Creativity Matters
9:00 Connecting to the Common Core
9:30 Technology + Creativity
9:45 Break
10:00 Creating Your Digital Footprint
10:30 Ten Tools for Creativity
11:30 LUNCH
12:30 Profiles of Creative Productivity
1:00 Constructing an Outlet
2:30 Making a Plan
16. “The Nation that
dramatically and boldly
led the world into the
age of technology is
failing to provide its
own children with the
intellectual tools
needed for
the 21st century.”
18. The world is changing FAST.
Technological KNOW-HOW is
spreading throughout the world;
Along with the knowledge that such
SKILLS and SOPHISTICATION
are the basic CAPITAL of
tomorrow’s society.
35. The Standards do not define the nature of
advanced work for students who meet the
Standards prior to the end of high school.
For those students, advanced work in such
areas as literature, composition, language, and
journalism should be available.
This work should provide the next logical step
up from the college and career readiness
baseline established here.
36. Students who are College and Career Ready....
✓Demonstrate Independence
✓Build Strong Content Knowledge
✓Respond to Varying Demands of Audience, Task,
Purpose, and Discipline
✓Comprehend as well as critique
✓Value Evidence
✓Use Technology and Digital Media Strategically and
Capably
✓Come to Understand Other Perspectives and Cultures
37. Research to Build and Present Knowledge
Writing Anchor #7: Conduct short as well as more
sustained research projects based on focused
questions, demonstrating understanding of the
subject under investigation.
38. The whole process of
education should
thus be conceived as
the process of
learning to think
through the solution
of real problems.
-- John Dewey, 1938
40. Interest and
Rigor Lead To
Creative
Productivity
“We need students to get more deeply interested in things,
more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to
know, to have projects that they can get excited about
and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated
to find things out on their own.”
41. Writing Anchor #6:
Production and Distribution of Writing
Use technology, including the Internet,
to produce and publish writing and to
interact and collaborate with others.
42. Production and Distribution of Writing
With guidance and support from adults, explore a
K variety of digital tools to produce and publish
writing, including in collaboration with peers.
With guidance and support from adults, use a
1 variety of digital tools to produce and publish
writing, including in collaboration with peers.
With guidance and support from adults, use a
2 variety of digital tools to produce and publish
writing, including in collaboration with peers.
43. Production and Distribution of Writing
3
With guidance and support from adults, use technology to
produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well
as to interact and collaborate with others.
With some guidance and support from adults, use
technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish
4 writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others;
demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to
type a minimum of one page in a single sitting.
With some guidance and support from adults, use
technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish
5 writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others;
demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to
type a minimum of two pages in a single sitting.
44. Production and Distribution of Writing
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and
6 publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with
others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding
skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting.
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and
7 publish writing and link to and cite sources
as well as to interact and collaborate with others,
including linking to and citing sources.
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and
8 publish writing and present the relationships between
information and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and
collaborate with others.
45. Production and Distribution of Writing
Use technology, including the Internet, to
9 produce, publish, and update individual or
shared writing products, taking advantage of
technology’s capacity to link to other
10 information and to display information flexibly
and dynamically.
Use technology, including the Internet, to
11 produce, publish, and update individual or
shared writing products in response to
12 ongoing feedback, including new arguments
or information.
