NECC Reflections 2008: Grassroots Creativity: Helping Everyone Become a Creative Thinker

Grassroots Creativity: Helping Everyone Become a Creative Thinker
Mitchel Resnick, MIT Media Lab

Resnick REALLY gets creativity and its essential place in both work and play. While the focus of the tool he demonstrated (SCRATCH) is more elementary than what I was looking for he definitely makes you think about where creativity lives in work, school, and home. His constructivist approach and results are fascinating.

One nugget I took from this session is looking at the sharing component of SCRATCH. How much to our art/photography/computer graphics students share their work? We have a game creating class at our school and I’m trying to find out if our students put their work out there for playing, comment and critique. We’re missing the boat if our students aren’t sharing their work on a more global scale.

http://scratch.mit.edu/