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2021

Creativity

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Integrating Design Thinking Into Steam Education: The Design Of Steam Education Platform And Course Based On Creativity Elements, Xuejiao Yin, Shumeng Hou, Qingxuan Chen Sep 2021

Integrating Design Thinking Into Steam Education: The Design Of Steam Education Platform And Course Based On Creativity Elements, Xuejiao Yin, Shumeng Hou, Qingxuan Chen

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The fast development of artificial intelligence in modern society facilitates the needs of creative education. Design thinking,a innovative thinking frame,is benefit to cultivate children’s creativity. However ,little research has clearly explain how to use design thinking to improve creativi-ty.Therefore,this study aimed at integrating creativity and design thinking into STEAM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics), and thereby cultivate students’ prob-lem solving and creative ability. Firstly, 151 school-age children participated in the study and fin-ished the creativity tests. Second, dimensions of creativity (e.g., adventure, curiosity, and flexibility) that were significantly related to academic performance were abstracted as core design elements …


Research On China's Industrial Design Education From The Perspective Of National Policy, Yun Fan, Jianglong Yu, Yang Zhang, Erik Bohemia Sep 2021

Research On China's Industrial Design Education From The Perspective Of National Policy, Yun Fan, Jianglong Yu, Yang Zhang, Erik Bohemia

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An increasing number of countries including China have incorporated industrial design development into their national development strategies. However, China hasn’t real-ized the process of industrial revolution in a real sense yet for most of its industrial manufacturing industry lacks innovation ability and still relies on cheap labour to get profits. In this context, industrial design has become the main force to promote Chi-na’s industrial structure adjustment and innovative talents are the core driving force; government plays a vital role in the national education development orientation and talent training. This paper takes the development of Chinese industrial design educa-tion in colleges …


I Hate Creativity, Patricia Kovic Jul 2021

I Hate Creativity, Patricia Kovic

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We love creativity. Everybody loves creativity and everybody wants a “Culture of Creativity.” However, there is strong evidence that we do not even like creativity, especially under stressful conditions. Creativity thrives in conditions of uncertainty, vagueness of purpose and psychological discomfiture — conditions that can be unbearable when added to the current anxieties of a shrinking academic landscape, the pandemic, let alone wicked problems like the climate crisis. We are terrified in these traumatic circumstances, so we shrink away from creativity toward the safety of what is known, understood and proven. As a result, Proxy Creativity emerges — one that …