Creative Thinking & Problem

Solving

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 Objective and Structure

Context Examples Methods

-Applying
-Everyday Life
Individual Thought
-Harnessing team
Objective: Students thinking
experience the possibilities
-Student Life and benefits of innovation -Drill Down
and creative thinking -Cause & Effect
-Brainstorming
-Business
-Role Play

Exercises

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What is Creative Thinking/
Creativity?

 An Ability.
 An Attitude.
 A Process.

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Creative Methods

 Evolution.

 Synthesis.

 Revolution.

 Reapplication.

 Changing Direction.
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Obstacles to Creative Thinking
1. Trying to Find the “Right” Answer

2. Logical Thinking

3. Following Rules

4. Being Practical

5. Play is Not Work

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Obstacles to Creative Thinking

6. That’s Not My Job

7. Being a “Serious” Person

8. Avoiding Ambiguity

9. Being Wrong is Bad

10. I’m Not Creative

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Write down what you can see in
this picture
Draw this design and time
yourself
Write five-word sentences from the five given
letters, one letter for each word

SCAMS
Task of tying together the ends of the two
strings suspended from the ceiling
Creative animal

 Make group of 5 Students and ask them to

choose a animal they want and write down
the characteristics.
 Then Each group will have ! Animal.
 Mix the members of the Each group so that
now each one has different animal.
 This new group so formed will come up
with new animal which will have at least
one characteristic of all the animal and will
name this new animal and also DRAW
PROBLEM SOLVING
PROBLEM SOLVING
What is Problem Solving

Tool : It can help you solve an

immediate problem or to achieve a
goal
Skill : once you have learnt it you
can use it repeatedly, like the ability
to ride a bicycle, add numbers or
speak a language
Process: It involves taking a
number of steps
Problem Solving Cycle
Left Brain Characteristics
 Follows a logical pattern
 Is objective
 Views time chronologically, hour by hour,
day by day
 Sees things as true or false, black or white
 Seeks details
 Holds short-term memory
 Thinks critically, perhaps negatively, asks
“why?”
Right Brain Characteristics
 Follows intuitive hunches
 Creates patterns, without following a step-
by-step process
 Is subjective
 Views time in a total sense—a lifetime, a
career, a project
 Sees the “whole” rather than the details
 Thinks positively, unconstrained by
preconceived ideas
 Asks “why not?” and breaks rules
Teaching Problem Solving Skills

Is it possible to teach problem

solving skills?
What Skills Do You Use In
Problem Solving?

• Planning

• Collecting information

• Analytical skills

• Making judgements
• Decision making
Activities
 Nine dots
 T Puzzle  
 Chessboard Problem
 The collected works
 Blind Square
 Matchstick Puzzles
 Who owns the white Mice?