Matthew Worwood:
Hello, everyone. My name is Dr. Matthew Worwood.

Cyndi Burnett:
And my name is Dr. Cindy Burnett.

Matthew Worwood:
This is the fueling creativity in Education podcast.

Cyndi Burnett:
On this podcast, we’ll be talking about various creativity topics and how they relate.

Cyndi Burnett:
To the fields of education.

Matthew Worwood:
We’ll be talking with scholars, educators, and resident experts about their work, challenges they face, and exploring new perspectives of creativity.

Cyndi Burnett:
All with a goal to help fuel a more rich and informed discussion that provides teachers, administrators, and emerging scholars with the information they need to infuse creativity into teaching and learning.

Matthew Worwood:
So let’s begin.

Cyndi Burnett:
Hello and welcome to season eight of the Fueling Creativity and education podcast. We are so excited to be back in 2024. And we have some amazing guests lined up for you, Matt.

Matthew Worwood:
Yes, we do. So we are launching season eight of the Fueling Creativity in Education podcast. We’ve got some great guests who we haven’t interviewed yet, but we have interviewed Dr. Janet Ratner, who spoke about generative AI, specifically telling us the difference between things like co creativity and computational creativity. So that was a really great episode. We’ve also interviewed Barbara Smith to talk a little bit about writing, and then Tod Henry, who spoke about the brave habit. So we’ve already had some really great discussions, so we know we’re in store for a wonderful season eight.

Cyndi Burnett:
And Matt, don’t forget, we also just confirmed a double espresso with creativity researcher Todd Lubart, who has done a tremendous amount of work in the field of creativity and education. And we’ll be having two episodes with him.

Matthew Worwood:
Yes, that’s great. And if you’re listening for the first time, and listen, we’ve got a YouTube video happening now. So Cindy and I are having to adjust a little bit to this video thing. And what we would say is that for our double espressoes, as a reminder, our episodes are typically about 20 to 25 minutes. But within our seasons, usually for one or two guests, we typically explore two different topics. And therefore we turn a 60 minutes interview into two episodes. And we call them double Expresso episodes.

Cyndi Burnett:
So we hope you will join us on this season of the Fueling Creativity and education podcast. And if you have any suggestions for future guests, please reach out to us at questions@fuelingcreativitypodcast.com now, Cindy, actually, before we.

Matthew Worwood:
Go, there is one thing that I do want to say. I do want to say that one of the things that I’m most excited about with season eight, Cindy, is the fact that we’re going back to our roots a little bit because we’ve really made an effort to, we’ve got some creativity research us, but we’ve also made an effort to go and bring in some more teachers back on the show because I don’t know about you, but I think that’s the concept of bridging. The gap in the show is when we take the knowledge that we got from researchers and then we really explore what’s happening on the ground, all of these amazing ideas and activities that teachers are inventing in order to promote creativity in their students. So I don’t know about you, but I’m kind of really excited. We spent a lot of time talking about generative AI, and I think we should continue to talk about generative AI, but I’m looking forward to also just getting back and exploring some just everyday classroom topics as well.

Cyndi Burnett:
I agree, Matt. And I think we should also tell our listeners that we’re going to be doing two presentations in 2024 that we’ve already lined up. One is at the learning in the brain conference, which is held in New York City, which we’ll link to in our notes. And the other one is the Torrance Festival of ideas. So if you listen to the episode with Anna Abraham, who is the chair of the Torrance center of Creativity at the University of Georgia, she is holding a free festival of Ideas conference in April, and we will be doing a presentation based on what we’ve learned on this podcast.

Matthew Worwood:
Yeah, that’s going to be super duper fun. All right, so if you’re joining us via YouTube, and we don’t often produce some YouTube episodes, but as I reference, we have been exploring it via our previous listen and learn series. What we want you to do is go find the fueling creativity and education podcast on your preferred podcasting platform and make sure you subscribe. And likewise, if you’re listening to our episodes but haven’t followed us yet on your favorite podcasting platform, please do so, because one of our goals for 2024 is to try and double the number of subscribers that we have to our show.

Cyndi Burnett:
And thanks so much for listening to us today. My name is Dr. Cindy Burnett.

Matthew Worwood:
And my name is Dr. Matthew Worwood.

Cyndi Burnett:
This episode was produced by Matthew Warwood and Cindy Burnett. Our podcast sponsor is curiosity to create, and our editor is Sam Atkinson.