1. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013 WHAT THE ARTS OFFER TRANSDISCIPLINARY TRAINING IN CREATIVITY SNAAP Conference, March 2013 Plenary Session 2: “Skills, Skills, Skills” Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Michele Root-Bernstein, Ph.D. Michigan State University

2. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013 A New Age: Creative Society “Success is based not only on what you know or how much you know, but on your ability to think and act creatively.” ~Mitchel Resnick, director, Lifelong Kindergarten research group at MIT Media Lab

3. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013 universal intuitive sensual & teachable skills The 13 “thinking tools” represent what creators across the arts and sciences have to say about how they think, imagine and create.

4. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013 The 13 Thinking Tools BODY THINKING ……………………

5. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013 …means honing ALL the senses to perceive acutely & accurately…

6. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013 …. involves mental sensation of things observed or imagined, using any or all of the senses, in the absence of direct perception…

7. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013 …involves the representation of a complex thing or process in simplified or analog form; used to test, modify, or play with its properties...

8. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013 …goal-less activity performed for fun or enjoyment that incidentally develops skill, intuition, and knowledge…

9. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013 ORIGAMITOOL-BOXORIGAMITOOL-BOX A mnemonic aid that defines & exercises each tool.

10. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013 Bloom’s Taxonomy & Imaginative Thinking Tools Experiencing imaging, body thinking abstracting, patterning empathizing, transforming all tools, all senses patterning, playing patterning, analogizing, modeling modeling, patterning, synthesizing http://www.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm

11. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013 http://arts.k12.hi.us Hawaii Arts Alliance

12. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013

13. Science Textbooks vs. Science Practice

14. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013 Addressing the disconnect between creative practice and pedagogy at Georgia State U:

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16. Exercising Thinking Tools in Worldplay : a complex form of pretend play that involves the invention of an imaginary world Imaginary Worlds Daydreams & Invented Stories Playacting Simple Pretense & Animism Imagination Age

17. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013 Worldplay is persistent (lasting months or years), elaborative (accumulating detailed histories of persons and place) & creative (often involving the making of artifacts). A young C.S. Lewis made maps, drew pictures, and wrote stories of Animal Land, thereby exercising imaginative skills such as observing, imaging, modeling and playing.

18. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013 Worldplay in childhood & adulthood: Claes Oldenburg, invented the imaginary country of Neubern as a child and parlayed the processes of worldplay into his adult artwork…, In adulthood, Desmond Morris, zoologist, writer & visual artist, has created an imaginary world of biomorphs, surreal creatures modeling zoological behaviors and evolutionary forces… © Michele Root-Bernstein 2013

19. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013 Artifact of an Imaginary World (Worldplay Workshop: University of Georgia, March 2010)

20. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013 Bookmaking Project & Worldplay Ren Hullender, Central Michigan University: Art Education Class © Ren Hullender 2013

21. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013 Maps © Ren Hullender 2013

22. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013 History Climate © Ren Hullender 2013

23. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013 Puns Poetry Lyrics Languages © Ren Hullender 2013

24. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013 Measurements Inventions © Ren Hullender 2013

25. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013 Hullender found dramatic initial results: Change in student affect, effort, and engagement Evidence of deep learning Change in the culture of the classroom © Ren Hullender 2013

26. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013 © Clar Baldus, U. of Iowa: class on Creativity, Imagination and Play in Human Development in Art

27. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013 8 Strategies for a Creative Education 1.Teach tools for thinking 2.Teach the creative process 3.Place arts on a par with sciences 4.Use common, cross-disciplinary language 5.Emphasize trans-disciplinary content 6.Model exemplary individuals & polymaths 7.Utilize many forms of expression 8.Specialize in imaginative breadth

28. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013 In sum: The more we can be explicit about what we mean by imagination and creativity, in terms of imaginative thinking tools and other relevant skills and behaviors, the more we can be precise about the cognitive value of the active engagement people experience in art training, and the more we can purposefully transfer that value to the pursuit of knowledge in other fields. © Michele Root-Bernstein 2013

29. (c) Michele Root-Bernstein 2013 TH A N K Y O U ! Michele Root-Bernstein rootber3@msu.edu