ABSTRACT
Creativity can and must be taught; encouraging imaginative thinking in the classrooms is the first step. It is true that weaving creative work into the curriculum takes time, as surely it takes more time for students to think up five solutions rather than one. Innovation takes creativity out of the personal space and thrusts it into the public arena. Creativity involves both convergent and divergent thinking. When creativity is a valued skill in the classrooms, the students have more ownership of their learning and their demonstrations of that knowledge. Occasionally, a student will do an Internet search for six-word memoirs and use someone else’s words as their own. When students put thought and time into creating something, they naturally want to share it with an audience. Asking students to create authentic work is one of the core tenets of project-based learning.
