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“So many times we encourage students to be creative, but we don’t always provide an explanation nor assessment. I think it is important to provide a definition. You can see that Dictionary.com defines creativity as ‘the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality, progressiveness, or imagination: the need for creativity in modern industry; creativity in the performing arts’.”
This is the last in a series of posts on Creativity in the Classroom, with a focus on websites that help promote creativity. Included in this post are:
* Arts Edge, a wonderful source from the Kennedy Arts Center that "offers free, standards-based teaching materials for use in and out of the classroom. It also offers professional development resources, student materials, and guidelines for arts-based instruction and assessment."
* Exploratorium - "a twenty-first-century learning laboratory, an eye-opening, always-changing, playful place to explore and tinker"
* Google Lit Trips - a great way to explore literature and Google Earth
* Odyssey of the Mind - "an international educational program that provides creative problem-solving opportunities for students from kindergarten through college."
* Diffen - a website that allows you to compare anything
An additional ten websites are listed that provide a range of online learning opportunities that help promote creativity!