Fostering Creativity

The video is designed mostly for teachers or others interested in fostering creativity in children or adults. It first offers a simple scaffold of the elements of creativity: imagination, creativity, and innovation, after Sir Ken Robinson's model. The video focuses mostly on imagination. A rough brain mechanism of imagination is described leading to conditions in which imagination thrives. Specific activities are suggested to foster and feed imagination, ending with a reminder that critical role of imagination is at the beginning of the creative process as echoed by Edison's observation that invention and genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.