Creative Thinking
Directions:
Step 1 – Review the information posted below.
Step 2 – Answer the question(s) in a clear and organized paragraph.
Technology and Engineering Practices - Creative Thinking
Creativity is the use of investigation, imagination, innovative thinking, and physical skills to accomplish goals, including design goals.
Creativity in a typical context refers to imagination, “thinking outside the box,” and coming up with unique ideas.
Engineers identify new patterns or imagine new ways of doing things when they look at the world.
Engineers must use their imagination to design, model, produce, and evaluate systems and artifacts of design.
Engineers harness creativity and innovation to develop new ways to meet human wants and needs.
Open-ended problems require creative thinking that is unique, purpose-driven, and generates multiple solutions.
It is not sufficient to simply have a unique approach; the solution must also address the needs identified and be satisfactory to the end users.
How to Think Creatively?
Use a wide range of idea creation techniques such as brainstorming.
Create new and worthwhile ideas (both small and radical concepts).
Elaborate, refine, analyze, and evaluate original ideas to improve and maximize creative efforts.
Work creatively and brainstorm with others.
Develop, implement, and communicate new ideas to others effectively.
Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives; incorporate group input and feedback into the work.
Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work and understand the real-world limits to adopting new ideas.
View failure as an opportunity to learn; understand that creativity and innovation are part of a long-term, cyclical process of small successes and frequent mistakes.
Implement innovation and act on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful contribution to the field in which the innovation will occur.
Brainstorm solutions to open-ended problems and encourage communication with individual and team ideas.
Questions
Answer the following question(s) in a clear and organized paragraph.
- Start with your topic sentence. This is where you should state your ideas.
- Then, include evidence to support your ideas.
- Finally, finish your paragraph with a brief wrap-up sentence.
- Then, include evidence to support your ideas.
- Finally, finish your paragraph with a brief wrap-up sentence.
I recommend you type your answers in Word or Google Docs and copy / paste your responses below. This will allow you to save a back-up version of your work.