Playing with ideas

Do schools and imagination go together? Creativity and innovation aren’t just nice words or highly demanded skills in the labour market, evidence suggests they are also key to well-being and to thriving economies. But are young people leaving education with the skills to apply knowledge and make novel connections, envision new solutions, and contribute meaningfully to their communities?

Join us on 21 April as we celebrate World Creativity and Innovation Day and discuss what is needed for schools to become places of imagination, inquiry, creation and reflection – and how creativity and innovation can support learning.

We will hear thoughts from Deepali Upadhyay of Atal Innovation Mission, Niti Aayog, Mitchel Resnick the author of Lifelong Kindergarten and discuss with Szilvia Németh how teachers in Hungary implemented the OECD project Fostering and Assessing Creativity and Critical Thinking.

Speakers include:
– Mitchel Resnick, LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab, U.S.
– Szilvia Németh, Managing Director, T-Tudok Centre for Knowledge Management and Educational Research, Hungary.

– Deepali Upadhyay, Programme Director, Atal Innovation Mission, Niti Aayog, India.

Moderated by Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin, Senior Analyst and Deputy Head of Division at the OECD Directorate for Education and Skill

Start: 21 April 2023

End: 8 December 2023