Debrief 11 (4): Personifying AI, Deliberate Creativity, and the Power of Playful Learning
Season 11 | Debrief 4 Personifying AI, Deliberate Creativity, and the Power of Playful Learning “And I think for me, it is much more of a tool than a person. Although I do, I will say that I really appreciate when I’m talking to it and I ask questions and I keep...
World Building in Education: Game-Based Learning with Stephen Slota & Trent Hergenrader
Season 11, Episode 12 World Building in Education: Game-Based Learning ” I really took that to heart. At the same time, two of my former professors, Roger Travis and Michael Young, both of whom were at the University of Connecticut, had just started something...
Teaching Creativity through Innovationish Thinking
Season 11, Episode 11 Teaching Creativity through Innovationish Thinking “I think creativity is what underlies our ability to do innovation. Innovation is, I’ve heard literally thousands of definitions asking that question to a room of people. And almost...
Can AI Truly Support Student Creativity
Season 11, Episode 10 Can AI Truly Support Student Creativity “And that’s one of the big part of the future of AI and divergent thinking. In fact, will people tend to be more fluent, having more ideas, but will they tend to be less original? Will they take...
Advancing Creativity: Tech Tools, Gifted Ed, and Convergence
Season 11 | Debrief 3 Advancing Creativity: Tech Tools, Gifted Ed, and Convergence “In high school level because, you know, for some students, they don’t have that interest and we could be fostering their potential in other areas. So in the case of your son, who...
Integrating Creativity in Arts Education
Season 1, Episode 8 Integrating Creativity in the Art Classroom “Creativity is the celebration of pluralism and diversity. I think that our world, in essence, really needs to come to terms with the fact that all of us are different and we all have something to...
Teaching Creativity for the Future of Work with Roni Reiter-Palmon
Season 11, Episode 9 Teaching Creativity for the Future of Work “So when we talk about problem identification construction, we really are talking about that phase that precedes the idea generation. So a lot of people think about idea generation as sort of that...
The Freedom to Design: Repurposing Technology for Creative Teaching with Punya Mishra
Season 11, Episode 8 The Freedom to Design: Repurposing Technology for Creative Teaching “You know that as a teacher in a space, you might know the research, you might know this, but you also know that the act of creating an experience for your learners is more...
The Future of Gifted Education: Supporting Exceptional Learners in Today’s Schools
Season 11, Episode 7 The Future of Gifted Education: Supporting Exceptional Learners in Today’s Schools ” At any grade level, in any subject area, there’s just going to be a big range. And so gifted education is really, at its core, an effort to try to...
Matthew Worwood
Co-Host
TMatthew Worwood is an education consultant and full-time faculty member at the University of Connecticut's Digital Media and Design Department. His research interests focus on Teacher Creativity, Co-Creativity with Generative AI, and Design Thinking.
Cyndi Burnett
Co-Host
Dr. Cyndi Burnett is the Vice-President at Curiosity 2 Create. She taught deliberate creativity at the Center for Applied Imagination at SUNY Buffalo State University for 20 years. She is the author of four books on creativity in education and co-founder of the creative thinking network.