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Dr. Thaharah Hilaluddin

Sum up the above images into one word

I am attached to the Teaching and Learning

Centre, UNITEN
office: CFGS, TA-4-223
e-mail: Thaharah@uniten.edu.my
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 CREATIVE THINKING
What is creativity?

Creativity is

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 CREATIVITY IS MAKING ART OUT OF
THE ORDINARY
Armenian Street in Penang is an ordinary street turned into a creative
appreciation of art.
Wall paintings on old
broken walls stimulate
creative photo shots

Armenian street art

provided opportunities
for a variety of business
to flourish. These are
bikes for hire.
Old Chinese umbrellas make
an interesting sky view
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CREATIVITY IS TURNING YOUR HISTORY AND
IDENTITY INTO ARTISTIC APPRECIATION
A biscuit and medicinal tea shop

Old Vespas
displayed inside
open windows

A supplier of housing materials

using conventional methods
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 CREATIVITY NEEDS MENTAL
STIMULATION

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not

stimulating your mind,
just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you
don't train regularly.
Ken Robinson
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 CREATIVITY IS PUTTING MENTAL
STIMULATION IN EVERYDAY LIVING
NZ is a country rich with creative expressions in the environment
A poem by Wellington harbour Meaningful sculptures in
recreational areas

Fruit trees shaped for an interesting landscape

A beautifully painted
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 MENTAL STIMULATION IN EVERYDAY
LIVING
A hotel in a quiet Lumsden town A toilet seat that nurses your bad mood

An old jailhouse turned exhibit in a small

town, educating the public with history

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 CREATIVITY IS BEING PRACTICAL AND
SIMPLY BEING INTERESTING
A bike stand that saves space in an NZ uni

A regular bike stand

An artistic bike stand in an NZ neighbourhoo

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 A LESS THAN STIMULATING
CLASSROOM

Commer-
cialised
posters
to
reinforce
syllabus
content
Tables and
chairs
arranged in
lines and
rows

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 A MENTALLY STIMULATING
CLASSROOM Students textured
artwork laminated
and displayed
TV to watch
educational
programmes Class
vegetable
garden
Toys to
play
during
free Tables
time provided
with
Various class stationery
activities that for
take students creative
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mundane desk
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 MENTALLY STIMULATING PLAYGROUNDS
Theres a
monkey bar
in most
kiwi
schools

Theres a
trampoline
in most
kiwi
houses

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SEEING THINGS DIFFERENTLY

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REPURPOSING MATERIALS

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REDEFINING FUN

A playground slide
relocated into a lake
for a fun summer
swim.

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CLEVER LIFE HACKS FOR STUDENTS

Hand phone loud speaker

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 TWISTING THE ORDINARY

Extreme shepherding Pooktre

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CREATIVITY IS MAKING
CONNECTIONS

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 ESCAPE, PENANG
Escape in Penang is an adult playground
that challenges your physical and mental
skills

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MAKING CONNECTIONS: EDUCATION
IN SUSTAINABLE LIVING
More interestingly, it is an eco-friendly playground that educates visitors
about recycling and sustainable living
It is a staff
quarters for
reservoir
workers
repurposed into
an enjoyable
adult
playground

The roof is
planted with
grass to keep
the building
cool
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MAKING CONNECTIONS: EDUCATION
IN SUSTAINABLE LIVING
Toilets with grass covered roof, kept
damp with water spray from collected
rain water

Rainwater from the gutter is collected

into a big barrel. The tap lets visitors
wash hands and feet after a day of
rough and tumble
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 MAKING CONNECTIONS: EDUCATION IN
SUSTAINABLE LIVING

Thick and low-lying tree branches serve as

natural posts to build playground

Repurposed materials
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CREATIVITY IS FREEING YOURSELF
FROM RIGID RULES

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 BUT CREATIVITY IS NOT
mindless graffiti on varsity walls
and public properties

or about breaking the rules, or

being an outlaw. Think of the impact
of your mindless creativity on
others.

Powerful creativity is combined with a certain degree of

maturity, intelligence and strong sense of responsibility!
Mindful creativity attempts to give back to the community.

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 MAKING CONNECTIONS:
TEEN INNOVATIONS

Gel that stops bleeding

A $15 energy-harvesting device

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 BRAINTEASER 1
Move a single line so that the false arithmetic
statement below becomes true.
IV = III + III
Answer:

92% of normal people are able to solve this standard problem-

solving approach.
However, 90% of brain-damaged people are able to solve it too!

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 BRAINTEASER 2
Move a couple of lines so that the false arithmetic
statement below becomes true.
IV = III + III
Answer:

43% of normal people are able to solve this teaser.

82% of brain damaged people are able to solve this too!
People with serious cognitive deficit are forced by their brain injury
to consider a wider range of possible answers; they are twice as
likely to have a breakthrough.

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 FREE FROM RULES: THE POWER OF
STRAY ASSOCIATIONS
There are benefits from the inability to focus

Study on sleepy students

Two groups tested on insight puzzles at two different times (8.30 am vs
5.00 pm). Who performed better? Why?

Study on drunk students

Two groups tested on word puzzles (one normal; one at peak
intoxication). Who performed better? Why?

The moral of the story?

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 RIDDLE 1
Marsha and Marjorie were born on the same
day of the same month of the same year to
the same mother and the same father, yet
they are not twins. How is that possible?

Answer:
Moral of the story?

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 RIDDLE 2
A woman got into a lift with an engineer, a
doctor, a lawyer, a chef and a restaurant waiter.
The lights went out. Someone pinched her behind.
When the lights came back, she slapped the
restaurant waiter. How did she know it was the
waiter?

Answer:

Moral of the story?

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Why do we need creativity?

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TEST YOUR CREATIVITY!

IN-CLASS ACTIVITY 1:

INSIGHT
PROBLEMS
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