Arts integration enriches learning experiences by fostering creativity, critical thinking, and emotional expression, thereby enhancing students' overall cognitive and social development.While all students benefit significantly from arts integration, students who struggle in a particular academic area can rediscover their love for learning.…

Our education systems must provide access to quality and equitable educational opportunities so all students can reach their full potential. Increasingly urgent issues, such as environmental threats, economic crises, and the recent global pandemic, have highlighted the need for education systems to be flexible and resilient in times of stress to…

In a rapidly changing world, education must evolve to prepare students not just for existing careers but also for those yet to be imagined. Daydream Believers, an innovative education organization, is embracing this challenge head-on by harnessing the power of technology to assess and enhance creative thinking among students. Daydream Believers, a…

Creativity is considered the skill of the future. We must be thoughtful, however, about how we innovate to support creativity, ensuring that we do not lose sight of equally important skills and competencies.

Laying the foundation for future-ready skills can begin in early childhood. In a changing world, such preparation means engaging students in a different, more relevant manner.

"If a child is not learning the way you teach, teach the way the child learns." This simple education philosophy is at the heart and soul of Educon International School (EIS), a Global Schools First Champion in Maharashtra, India. Educon International School has been in the forefront of adapting and integrating 21st-century best…

As educators and business people consider what children need to be successful in this rapidly changing society, creative and critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, and persistence are recognized as the most important skills for success in education and the workforce. Among these, creative thinking is referred to most…

When we consider the ultimate goal of bringing innovation to our education programs, a key consideration is whether or not we are helping our students themselves become innovative, creative thinkers and actors.

Students can imitate scientists at work by conducting inquiry investigations in the classroom, thereby exhibiting a multitude of skills and competencies. As stated by Bransford and Donovan (2005), learning science as a process of inquiry involves students in observation, imagination, and reasoning about the phenomena under investigation. Rather…

Children are often far more gifted than their parents or teachers realize--and in different ways. IQ tests do not measure creative talent. Most children start life with valuable creative potential. Unfortunately, many of them have it knocked out of them, so to speak, by the time they reach the 4th grade. It is not that parents and teachers…

Presents brief case histories of two hospitalized children who participated in a recreational program designed to provide art and creative writing experiences in the pediatric wards. Illustrations of the children's writing, art and conversation are included. (BR)

Stresses the importance of computers for children's learning ability, motivation, creative thinking, and social skills. (MP)

Summarizes and compares three creativity training programs for elementary and high school students: Productive Thinking Program (1966), Purdue Creative Thinking Program (1971), and Sidney Parnes' courses in creativity (1959). (ED)

Examines the impact of the Junior Great Books Program of interpretive reading and discussion on fourth-grade children's cognitive processes and feelings of self worth. (PCB)

Offers explanations of various uses of computers with children, placing appropriate applications into a developmental framework. (MP)