Tag Archives: creativity

Does AI influence student creativity?

Does AI influence student creativity?

Teachers around the world are wondering whether they should view artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT as friend or foe in their classroom. My research shows that the answer to this question is not clear-cut and can be taken from either point of view. To what extent can students be taught to stimulate their creative thinking […] … learn more→

Will AI kill our creativity? It could – if we don’t start to value and protect the traits that make us human

Will AI kill our creativity? It could – if we don’t start to value and protect the traits that make us human

There’s no doubt generative AI’s ability to rapidly produce new texts, images and audio is shaking up creative jobs. In the long-running Writers Guild of America strike, a central sticking point has been the guild’s demand that AI be used only as a research tool and not a replacement for its members. For many creative types, it seems harder to earn […] … learn more→

Motivated children, creative children: how to foster innovation in the classroom

Motivated children, creative children: how to foster innovation in the classroom

Creativity is a demanded and valued quality in our society, both personally and at work. Problem solving and the ability to propose innovative solutions are essential in our need to adapt to a complex and changing reality. Creativity and innovation go hand in hand and for this reason there is always a demand for these skills […] … learn more→

Four important tips to help ensure your business is a success

Four important tips to help ensure your business is a success

All businesses begin with a simple idea. You pick a niche and work your way up from there. However, it’s not always as easy as that. In today’s digital landscape, opening a business isn’t as rare as it used to be. The real task is making sure the business is successful. Unfortunately, a lot of […] … learn more→

How to nurture creativity in your kids

How to nurture creativity in your kids

Parents who want their kids to be more creative may be tempted to enroll them in arts classes or splurge on STEM-themed toys. Those things certainly can help, but as a professor of educational psychology who has written extensively about creativity, I can draw on more than 70 years of creativity research to make additional suggestions that are more likely to be […] … learn more→

Research as creative practice

Research as creative practice

My starting point – Research is a creative process. The connection between research and creativity is embodied in some disciplines. C. Wright Mills for instance famously talked about the necessity of the ‘sociological imagination’ – understanding how larger unseen social relations are embedded in and frame everyday events, conversations, processes and relations. But perhaps the […] … learn more→

Creativity, bridge between science studies and humanities?

Creativity, bridge between science studies and humanities?

In a famous lecture given in 1959, the novelist and chemist CP Snow spoke of the separation between the hard sciences and the humanities, and the lack of respect and dialogue that often exists between these two fields. He pointed out how this could harm a country’s future as many innovations result from the interaction between these two […] … learn more→

Stuck in the past: the UK needs to produce creative thinkers not exam-passing machines

Stuck in the past: the UK needs to produce creative thinkers not exam-passing machines

The UK is experiencing a new renaissance. The first Renaissance looked back to the Classical world of ancient Rome and Greece. It bridged the historical divide from the Middle Ages to modern history (at least from a European perspective). Yet we find ourselves in a still newer modern “age of technology” in which robotics, gene editing and other once-unthinkable realities are defining our […] … learn more→

Creativity in education

I was recently asked to answer a number of questions about creativity in education by the editor of an upcoming book on the subject. The questions stimulated my thinking on the link between creativity and education. I became concerned with two major questions: 1. Is creativity a goal to strive for in (higher) education? If […] … learn more→