{"70662":{"#nid":"70662","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Designing Assignments that Promote Creative Thinking","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDoes teaching in your discipline involve open-ended problems that require creative thinking to search for alternative solutions?  Would you like to design assignments that help students learn to think creatively?  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis workshop will highlight assignments that promote the development of the core concepts of divergent thinking: fluency (generating lots of ideas), cognitive flexibility (shifting perspectives for different kinds of ideas) and originality (proposing novel ideas).  Whether students are in the sciences (where creative thinking is necessary for exploring hypotheses, setting up experiments, and discovering patterns), in engineering and architecture (where creative thinking is a critical component of design), or management and the liberal arts (where creative thinking is essential to contributing and competing in the global economy), the 21st century learner needs opportunities to develop creative thinking skills across the disciplines.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe presenter of this workshop is Dr. Kathleen Kegley, who holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering with an emphasis in artificial intelligence, an M.S. in computer science, an M.S. in plant and environmental science, and a B.S. in chemistry.  She is adjunct faculty in the School of Business at Clemson University where she teachers the MBA course, \u003Cem\u003ECreativity and Innovation in Business\u003C\/em\u003E, and conducts research in creative thinking.  She is also on the faculty of Furman University\u0027s Corporate and Professional Development Program and host of \u003Cem\u003ECreativity in Business\u003C\/em\u003E, a segment that airs on the public radio program \u003Cem\u003EYour Day\u003C\/em\u003E.  She received the 2005 Innovision \u003Cem\u003EInnovation in Education Award \u003C\/em\u003Efor her SCORM-based program, \u003Cem\u003EProject Metamorph--Transforming eLearning into eAssets\u003C\/em\u003E.   \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo register, go to: \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.cetl.gatech.edu\/eventmgmt\/viewForm.php?f=201\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.cetl.gatech.edu\/eventmgmt\/viewForm.php?f=201\u003C\/a\u003E  \n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Does teaching in your discipline require students to learn to search for alternative solutions? Join your colleagues for this luncheon workshop and learn how to use assignments to help students develop the core concepts of divergent thinking.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Designing Assignments that Promote Creative Thinking"}],"uid":"27276","created_gmt":"2010-09-29 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:56:05","author":"Felicia Turner","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2010-10-21T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2010-10-21T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2010-10-21T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2010-10-21 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2010-10-21 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2010-10-21 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1268","name":"Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"14559","name":"creative thinking"},{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"},{"id":"737","name":"teaching"},{"id":"1602","name":"Teaching Assistant"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EFelicia Turner\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECETL\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=ft24\u0022\u003EContact Felicia Turner\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-9418\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}