Infusing Creative Thinking Skills into Your Higher Education Course

This is a FREE virtual event in celebration of World Creativity and Innovation Week
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Do you want to infuse creative thinking skills into your university courses? Do you want to engage your college students in more meaningful and effective learning experiences?

This interactive workshop will provide you with a creative thinking skill set that can be integrated into any domain or content. The exercises are designed with an emphasis on making them relevant to all different fields of study, work, etc.

Dr. Burnett will take you through the simple process using the example of the first day of class. You will walk away with simple and easy-to-use creative thinking strategies to apply in every course that you teach.

Your Presente
Dr. Cyndi Burnett is the Director of Possibilities at Creativity and Education. She is dedicated to empowering educators and helping them to infuse creative thinking skills into any content area. She spent 20 years as an academic teaching deliberate creative thinking and creative problem-solving to both undergraduate and gradaute students at the International Center for Creativity and Change Leadership at SUNY Buffalo State.

Her work includes projects such as: working with educators to bring creative thinking into the classroom, connecting communities of creative thinkers via social media, and designing and running a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Everyday Creativity. She is the recipient of the President’s Medal for Excellence in Teaching 2018 by SUNY Buffalo State, was Buffalo Business First, Woman of Influence 2018 for her work in creativity, and was featured in the NY Times article titled, “Creativity Becomes an Academic Discipline.” She is the co-editor of the Big Questions in Creativity book series and co-author of the books Weaving Creativity into Every Strand of Your Curriculum, 20 Lessons for Weaving Creativity into your Curriculum, and My Sandwich is a Spaceship: Creative Thinking for Parents and Young Children.

  • Start: 22 April 2022
  • End: 22 April 2022
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  • Location: N/A , , United States
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