This document discusses ways to teach creativity and think creatively. It introduces the SCAMPER technique, which provides a mnemonic device to help with brainstorming. SCAMPER prompts thinking about substituting, combining, adapting, modifying, putting to other uses, eliminating, and rearranging ideas. The document also discusses Torrance's incubation model and metaphors for divergent thinking, such as "looking twice" and "digging deeper" to fully explore ideas, and "listening to a cat" to let information inform new insights. The overall aim is to provide tools and frameworks to help people learn and think in more creative ways.

1. Re-ignite Your Passion to teach about Creativity and to teach Creatively “Help me be morecreative.... I like to have my YoYo back, please?”

2. People prefer to learn creatively- by exploring, questioning, manipulating, rearranging things, testing and modifying, listening, looking, feeling - and then thinking about it –incubating. Torrance and Safter (1990)

3. The Four Ps of Creativity

5. IDEA BOX Station 1 Story Re-Creation Combining different variations to create new story ideas

6. Story Re-Creation with Idea Box

7. Example: Nim’s Island

8. Example: Nim’s Island 2

9. Station 2 SCAMPER Mnemonic device created by Bob Eberle (1971) to supplement training in basic rules of Brainstorming

10. TASK: Design a Yo-Yo that will be very popular with kids in the year 2020 Work in groups of 4 - 5

11. Design a Yo-Yo that will be very popular with kids in the year 2020 Divergent Spark Plug SCAMPER Substitute Combine Adapt Modify Put to other uses Eliminate Re-arrange

12. SCAMPER : Substitute? Who else instead? What else instead? What other material? What other process? What other place? What other groups?

13. SCAMPER : Combine? Blend? Assortment? Combine units? Combine purposes? Combine appeals? Combine ideas? Combine concepts?

14. SCAMPER : Adapt? What else is like this? What other ideas does it suggest? Does the past offer a parallel?

15. SCAMPER : Modify? New twist? Modify meaning? Modify colour? Modify motion? Modify sound? Modify smell? Modify form? Modify shape?

16. SCAMPER : Put to Other Uses? New ways to use as it is? Other uses if modified? Other places to use? Other people to reach?

17. SCAMPER : Eliminate? Minify? Subtract? Condensed? Lower? Shorter? Lighter? Streamline? Split up?

18. SCAMPER : Rearrange? Interchange components? Other patterns/ rearrangements? Other layout? Other sequence? Transpose cause and effect? Turn inside out?

19. Forced Connections Station 2 Individual Ideation to Get Your Mental Wheel Turning

20. Visual Connection with a YoYo

21. Forced Connection When you look at/ play with/ smell/ listen to your Yo-Yo, what ideas do you get for solving the following problems?

22. Special mission:Crocodile Hunters Observe & Dot ‘judgmental’ participants Verbal comments & observable behaviors Reptile’s Response to something new: Run from it! Attack it! Eat it!

23. Divergent Thinking Rules

24. Torrance Incubation Model

25. Torrance Metaphors: Looking Twice Defer judgment Keep open to new information and insights Search for more information Evaluate and re-evaluate information

26. Torrance Metaphors: Digging Deeper Get beyond the surface to find out what was hidden Diagnose difficulties Integrate all available information Check information against hunches Synthesize diverse kinds of information Elaborate and diverge

27. Torrance Metaphors: Listening / Talking to a Cat Let presented information "talk to you" and then “talk back” to the information Read your own feelings in response Recognize that mistakes will be made Make guesses, check, correct, reexamine, discard unpromising solutions, refine, and make the best solutions better

28. Thank You John Yeo Singapore yeojohn75@gmail.com