Creativity+and+Imagination+in+Education+in+the+21st+Century

__**DEFINITIONS**__ __**Creativity**__

Wikipedia:
 * **Creativity** refers to the phenomenon whereby a person creates something new (a product, a solution, a work of art, a novel, a joke, etc.) that has some kind of value. What counts as "new" may be in reference to the individual creator, or to the society or domain within which the novelty occurs. What counts as "valuable" is similarly defined in a variety of ways.
 * Creativity can be described as any “human act or process that occurs when the key elements of novelty, appropriateness, and a receptive audience in a given field comes together at a given time to solve a given problem” (Warner, 2000)

__**Imagination:**__

Wikipedia:
 * **Imagination**, also called the faculty of **imagining**, is the ability of forming images and sensations when they are not perceived through sight, hearing, or other senses. Imagination helps provide meaning to experience and understanding to knowledge; it is a fundamental faculty through which people make sense of the world, and it also plays a key role in the learning process.

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Creativity and imagination in Education in the 21st Century An important part of making creativity an integral part of the teaching and learning experience is the importance of space. Allowing the children to develop creativity and imagination through different types of learning. The classroom environment can be designed to help bring out creativity in students using colour, light, resources, decorations, furniture, sensory variables and space and class size. As facilitators of learning we must be willing to take the lead in demonstrating the application of creativity toward our curricula and our classrooms and labs.

When considering whether it would be worthwhile to modify the environmental variables in your classroom to encourage

1. Why do we expect our students to be creative in environments that we, as adults, would never tolerate? 2. Why are we still building schools and outfitting classrooms that look like industrial warehouses when the literature and research, for quite some time, has been telling us how to make creative spaces in educational settings? 3. Does technology education truly embrace creativity in its curricula and its classrooms and lab facilities? (

//Creativity is a state of mind in which all of our intelligences are working together. It involves seeing, thinking and innovating.// Creativity is the ability to take risks and learn and discover through mistakes. I believe that creativity is something we are all born with, but some may express it differently. The environment is an important part and that is why I believe the space in the classroom is an integratal part of creativity and imagination in Education.