LESSON 16

CREATIVITY

• When does learning take place? Interaction

You have an effect on the teacher and the teacher has an effect on you. But it is difficult to reach interaction and effective learning. 2 kinds of interactions: Monologic and diologic. We have to be dialogic.

• In language learning: how to communicate? What to communicate? We are not focusing on how, now in what.

• Play a game: Scandalville : Think about something you consider to be important in language teaching. In a piece of paper. Something new you have dealt with in all this master. For example: implement original activities/ psychological studies/ foster critical thinking and communicative approach to foster communication/ motivation , students willing to learn /

• It is important the music/ Play a game with music : Slow motion Samurai

• What makes a person creative?  Can we make the effort to be creative? Can we be trained to be creative? We have to have the attitude to be creative. We can make the effort to be creative but I think it is difficult because we have to have the attitude.

• The investment theory: you know a lot, maybe you are a person that you already know without taking risks. Because if you take them you are maybe wrong. You won't be able to leave your status quo because this represents a risk and there are people who don't want this things in life. The first thing we should consider is if the creativity can be taught.

• There are some studies: test about creativity in 600 students. The results were that the majority of them showed signs of creativity when they were in primary school. Later, only 30% percent showed creativity. Then, only 12% adults: only 2% of those children were creative. The conclusion is easy: in school what we learned tend to be non-creative.

• It is any way to be creative? Bono's hat (This is a way)

Every learning experience can be based on different things:

Green hat: explore new feels, new things, new possibilities and it is the hat for creativity. So everyone, let's put the Green hat and let's start to be creative!!