Developing Creativity

Sir Ken Robinson – Creativity

Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.

Education scientist Sugata Mitra – Revolutionizing education

Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education — the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.

Elizabeth Gilbert – how writers develop creativity

Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It's a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.

Child prodigy Adora Svitak – The world needs "childish" thinking

Child prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs "childish" thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity and especially optimism. Kids' big dreams deserve high expectations, she says, starting with grownups' willingness to learn from children as much as to teach.

RSA Animate – Changing Education Paradigms

Creative Ways to Teach Stories by Peeyush Malhotra Gurdaspuria

Suggestions for teachers to use creative activities to teach stories