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Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development presents the 2023 Torrance Festival of Ideas
DAYDREAM. IMAGINE. PLAY. HELPING STUDENTS RECONNECT WITH THEIR SUPERPOWERS - Sheila Pontis
Most students begin college with a preconceived idea of what society expects from them, stifling their ability to dream, imagine, and pursue their own paths. I discuss a creativity course for first-year college students aimed at empowering them to envision their ideal future. Deliberate creativity techniques and metacognitive activities help students build confidence and increase self-worth. Sheila Pontis, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer at MIT, where she leads the design curriculum of the IDM program. Combining design, metacognitive, and creative strategies, Sheila empowers people to reconnect with their imagination, envision new realities, and innovatively navigate complexity in the world. Her recent work focuses on deliberate cognitive creativity and its impact on wellbeing and happiness in college students and early career scientists.
Session host: Denis Dumas, Department of Educational Psychology, the Mary Frances Early College of Education at the University of Georgia
The University of Georgia
The Mary Frances Early College of Education
copyright © 2023
Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development presents the 2023 Torrance Festival of Ideas
DAYDREAM. IMAGINE. PLAY. HELPING STUDENTS RECONNECT WITH THEIR SUPERPOWERS - Sheila Pontis
Most students begin college with a preconceived idea of what society expects from them, stifling their ability to dream, imagine, and pursue their own paths. I discuss a creativity course for first-year college students aimed at empowering them to envision their ideal future. Deliberate creativity techniques and metacognitive activities help students build confidence and increase self-worth. Sheila Pontis, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer at MIT, where she leads the design curriculum of the IDM program. Combining design, metacognitive, and creative strategies, Sheila empowers people to reconnect with their imagination, envision new realities, and innovatively navigate complexity in the world. Her recent work focuses on deliberate cognitive creativity and its impact on wellbeing and happiness in college students and early career scientists.
Session host: Denis Dumas, Department of Educational Psychology, the Mary Frances Early College of Education at the University of Georgia
The University of Georgia
The Mary Frances Early College of Education
copyright © 2023
