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This blog is dedicated to the creativity explorations I've completed during my course "Creativity in Teaching and Learning" during my graduate program at Michigan State University taught by Candance Robertson.
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Kelly Anne Kaczmarek
Dec 12, 20233 min read
How Do I Love Thee? A Synthesis in 3 Parts
Part One When answering the question, “How would you describe yourself as a creative individual?” at the beginning of the course, my view...
Kelly Anne Kaczmarek
Nov 29, 20231 min read
Creativity with a Capital "C" Part 3: Assessment and Creativity
After reading “Measuring What Matters: Assessing Creativity, Critical Thinking, and the Design Process,” by Kate Shively, Krista M....
Kelly Anne Kaczmarek
Nov 28, 20232 min read
How Do I Love Thee? Play
I. My understanding of play is open-ended exploration. II. “Something Happy” is both playful and meaningful because it gauges a...
Kelly Anne Kaczmarek
Nov 16, 20232 min read
How Do I Love Thee? Modeling and Dimensional Thinking
i. Modeling is using an understanding of a concept, idea, or process in order to create a representation. ii. The goal of this...
Kelly Anne Kaczmarek
Nov 5, 20231 min read
Creativity with a Capital "C" Part 2: Society and Creativity
After exploring the article, "The can and cannot do attitude: How self-estimates of ability vary across ethnic and socioeconomic groups,"...
Kelly Anne Kaczmarek
Nov 4, 20232 min read
How Do I Love Thee? Embodied Thinking
For this creation, the creative aspect of embodied thinking was used to develop an activity for a subtopic of emotions. The subtopic...
Kelly Anne Kaczmarek
Oct 20, 20231 min read
How do I love thee? Abstracting
For this creation, the goal was to create an abstraction of a concept. The concept I chose was the concept of relationships and...
Kelly Anne Kaczmarek
Oct 8, 20234 min read
Creativity with a Capital "C"
Background For this creation, my goal was to learn two new perspectives, one of a human and one of an AI figure, for differing aspects of...
Kelly Anne Kaczmarek
Oct 6, 20232 min read
How Do I Love Thee? Patterning
I. Existing patterns in emotions: The cyclical process of experiencing a set of emotions throughout a day, going to sleep, and waking up...
Kelly Anne Kaczmarek
Sep 24, 20232 min read
How Do I Love Thee? Perceiving
My goal for this creation was to present emotions in a unique way than how they are typically perceived. In the process of developing a...
Kelly Anne Kaczmarek
Sep 7, 20231 min read
Creativity All Around Us
Where: My Classroom How does this space make me feel: currently, overwhelmed (long day). Usually, it makes me feel calm and ready for...
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