Creativity, Curiosity, and Critical Thinking Combined: Parent Seminar November 13, 2015 (click for powerpoint)
Was Leonardo da Vinci an artist, scientist, or engineer?
“Leonardo did not compartmentalize his interests. To him, all knowledge was related. What he could learn in one field would help shed light on others. This attitude allowed him to cross-fertilize ideas in unusually creative ways. He thought of architecture, for example, as related to human anatomy. Buildings resembled bodies; the more he could learn about anatomy, the better an architect, or “building doctor,” he would be.”
Krull, K. (2005). Leonardo da Vinci. New York: Scholastic.
"The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity."
Mae Jemison, US Astronaut
"True innovation comes with combining the mind of a scientist or technologist with that of an artist or designer."
John Maeda, Rhode Island School of Design
“Nobel laureates in the sciences are seventeen times likelier than the average scientist to be a painter, twelve times as likely to be a poet, and four times as likely to be a musician.”
Pomeroy, S. (2012, August 22). From STEM to STEAM: Science and art go hand-in-hand.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/08/22/from-stem-to-steam-science-and-the-arts-go-hand-in-hand/
Robert Root-Bernstein and his wife, Michele, co-authors of Sparks of Genius, conducted extensive research into the minds of inventive people and showed that creativity can be encouraged and enhanced through the exercise of thinking tools. Without exercising this other half of the brain with its ability to foster creativity it atrophies just as failure to do physical exercise does for other parts of the body.
Arts & Education Webinar (2010, June 22). http://steam-notstem.com/
A definition of creativity is “What do I do when I confront a problem for which I have no learned solution?” Creativity is not only the arts. Successful people in all disciplines use creative thinking skills.
Krull, K. (2005). Leonardo da Vinci. New York: Scholastic.
"The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity."
Mae Jemison, US Astronaut
"True innovation comes with combining the mind of a scientist or technologist with that of an artist or designer."
John Maeda, Rhode Island School of Design
“Nobel laureates in the sciences are seventeen times likelier than the average scientist to be a painter, twelve times as likely to be a poet, and four times as likely to be a musician.”
Pomeroy, S. (2012, August 22). From STEM to STEAM: Science and art go hand-in-hand.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/08/22/from-stem-to-steam-science-and-the-arts-go-hand-in-hand/
Robert Root-Bernstein and his wife, Michele, co-authors of Sparks of Genius, conducted extensive research into the minds of inventive people and showed that creativity can be encouraged and enhanced through the exercise of thinking tools. Without exercising this other half of the brain with its ability to foster creativity it atrophies just as failure to do physical exercise does for other parts of the body.
Arts & Education Webinar (2010, June 22). http://steam-notstem.com/
A definition of creativity is “What do I do when I confront a problem for which I have no learned solution?” Creativity is not only the arts. Successful people in all disciplines use creative thinking skills.