The Body is Not an Apology - Sonya Renee Taylor UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2019-03-20 | The UGA College of Education Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion presentsThe Body is Not an ApologyHow Disability Justice is Radical Self Love! by Sonya Renee TaylorSonya Renee Taylor is the founder and radical executive officer of The Body is Not An Apology, a digital media and education company with content reaching half a million people each month.Sonya Renee Taylor spoke as part of the 14th Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Conference.The University of Georgiacopyright © 2019
Horizons UGA students ‘Call the Dawgs’ UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-10-01 | During summer 2024, Horizons at UGA and the Mary Frances Early College of Education served 60 students in grades K-2 during a six-week summer learning experience for students from Barnett Shoals Elementary School in Athens.The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
Yvette Q. Getch - Children with Chronic Conditions: Families, Teachers, Community, and Schools UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-06-28 | The UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education presents a Teacher Preparation WorkshopYvette Q. Getch - Children with Chronic Conditions: Families, Teachers, Community, and SchoolsDr. Getch is a current Professor in the Department of Counseling and Instructional Sciences at the University of South Alabama and the Coordinator for Graduate Counseling Programs. Her research interests are foundationally rooted in advocacy, empowerment, access, accommodations, and improving services/interventions. Much of her research focuses on childhood chronic illness in schools, accommodations, and the impact of chronic illness on families. She is a founding board member of HIVE (Habilitation, Information, Vocation, and Education) which provides transition opportunities and support for young adults with significant disabilities. Dr. Getch was a faculty member at The University of Georgia for 17 years and received her doctorate in Rehabilitation Education and Research from The University of Arkansas.The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2023
CYNDI BURNETT: Weaving Creative Thinking into Every Strand of Your Curriculum UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-31 | Drawing from the legendary work of E. Paul Torrance and the Beyonder skills, we have a wealth of ideas and strategies to help you integrate creative thinking into your curriculum without adding extra hours to the school day. And the best part is, you're probably already taking some small steps in that direction.The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
Professional Learning Programs at the Torrance Center UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-30 | Learn more about the professional learning programs offered by the Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development. The Torrance Center is a part of the Mary France Early College of Education at the University of Georgia.The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
JENNIFER KATZ-BUONINCONTRO: Creativity as an Enhancement to Prosocial Motivation UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | Creative thinking and problem solving are essential to learning theory, specific to many domains and thus remain central to instructional leadership. But, what are the possible impactful benefits of creativity not as autotelic means but as a cognitive asset for thinking adaptively and feeling motivated to help others for a positive school community? Building on a recent study by Paek & Katz-Buonincontro showing that students’ creative problem solving significantly explained prosocial motivation after controlling for uncertainty tolerance, perspective taking, and anticipated repaying for prosocial behavior, this talk extends this work by connecting heretofore seemingly disconnected research in the area of creativity and prosocial motivation to the area of positive school communities. The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
RON BEGHETTO: Human Creativity x AI: Possibilities and Pitfalls in Educational Contexts UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | The focus of this talk is the interplay between human creativity and artificial intelligence in education. More specifically, the talk emphasizes the principled AI use – underscoring AI's role as a tool for enhancing, not replacing, human creative thought. This includes the importance of maintain human agency in such interactions and cautioning against an over-reliance on AI as simply an ‘answer machine.’ Examples of custom bots will also be demonstrated, highlighting how such bots can support formative assessment of creative ideas, foster creative idea development and "possibility thinking." Implications for research and practice will also be discussed.The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
MICHAEL ANDERSON: How Creativity Works Making Creativity real in your classroom, school or org UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | Many of us have a good grasp on the ‘why’ of creativity but we sometimes become stumped on the ‘how’ This presentation draws on 4C Transformative Learning’s work with over 80 schools and organisations internationally to demonstrate a framework for making creativity happen in your context. The Creativity Cascade featured in Transforming Education and Transforming Schools provides an evidence-based approach to applying creativity in your context. Using a case study this presentation will help participants understand and then apply the cascade to enable creative learning in diverse contexts. The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
PETER O’CONNOR: Working Towards a Pedagogy of Surprise UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | Anna and Peter attempt to answer: Why are the arts the single most important thing that can be taught right now? Why are governments around the world either embracing or rejecting the arts with such fervour? What’s the link between creativity, the imagination and the arts?The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
ANNA ABRAHAM: The Creativity Learning Nexus UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | This session introduces this year’s festival and presents the Torrance Director reflections on the intricate interplay between creativity and learning.The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
JOHN BAER: No Such Thing as Creativity - Why This Should Matter to Anyone Teaching Creative Thinking UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | Confusion about the nature of creativity has misled efforts to promote creative thinking. There is no general essence of creativity, no shared quality that is part of all creative ideas, performances, or products. What makes a painting, a song, or a dance creative varies, just as what constitutes expertise varies across domains. And just as learning what a haiku is will not increase one’s expertise in cooking, developing creative-thinking skills helpful in writing poetry will not make one a more creative chef. The implications for creative training will be explored.The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
MARIALE HARDIMAN: Creativity- Educators’ Beliefs and Practices - Voices from the Field UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | Creative thinking is widely recognized as an important skill for success in the workplace and general life endeavors. Educators voice enthusiastic statements about the need for schools to prepare students to be creative thinkers and innovative problem-solvers. Yet, educational practitioners are often challenged to assimilate findings from creativity research into instructional programs. This talk addresses findings from an exploratory qualitative study in which practicing teachers shed light on important themes regarding teachers’ beliefs, self-efficacy, institutional challenges, and opportunities in teaching creativity as a regular part of an instructional program. The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
DENIS DUMAS: The Development of Creativity: From Self to Socially Referenced UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | Creativity is a psychological process through which original and useful ideas are generated. But what counts as original and useful changes over the course of learning within a domain. In the beginning of domain learning, acclimating learners do not yet know what others working in the domain would regard as original or useful, so they necessarily rely on self-referential creative thinking processes. As learners progress, they build their domain knowledge and their understanding of domain norms, which allows for the waxing involvement of socially referenced creative thinking processes over the course of domain learningThe University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
JAAN ARU: Creativity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | Are modern AI systems as creative or even more creative than humans? What is creativity and how can we best conceptualize it? I argue that generative AI does not capture important aspects of creativity. Then, the question becomes how to use these tools best. What will be the effect of such AI technologies on children and the educational system? The intuitive way students use these systems is to get their homework done, a strategy that hinders rather than supports creativity. Which recommendations should we give to educators and students to appropriately use generative AI to boost creativity?The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
KERRY CHAPPEL: Creating Ruptions for Alternative Educational Futures UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | This talk will show how creative ruptions – disturbances or commotions - can lead to the emergence of alternative educational futures. Professor Chappell will question current assumptions regarding how education is structured and enacted, and provide examples and tools for working with creative ruptions. She will explore how creative ruptions can respond to ‘wicked problems’ such as the climate emergency. Including consideration of how we can grow our emotional repertoires from anxiety to include hope and courage, the talk explores how creativity might expand our horizons of personal, social and political possibility that ultimately determine our education systems and their futures.The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
GUY CLAXTON: Developing creative-mindedness: Guy Claxton in conversation with Anna Abraham UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | Guy Claxton's research is predominantly in the fields of creativity, learning to learn, and dispositional teaching. His many books include Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: Why Intelligence Increases When You Think Less, The Wayward Mind: An Intimate History of the Unconscious, and Intelligence in the Flesh: Why Your Mind Needs your Body Much More Than It Thinks.The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
TODD LUBART: Measuring and developing creativity in educational contexts UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | This presentation will start by taking a quick look at more than a century of work on creativity measurement and development. Then, recent work will be highlighted with a focus on results from the EPoC battery (Evaluation of Potential for Creativity), that assesses creative potential in children and adolescents across several content domains (graphic, verbal-literary, social, scientific, mathematical, musical, body movement). In a second part of the presentation, the development of creativity using non-traditional educational activities will be showcased. In particular, recent research on board games as an activity to support creative thinking will be presented.The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
Re-visioning posthumanist transdisciplinary creativities and pedagogies: New directions UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | Our global community is at a pivotal juncture caught between a future of environmental and social instability on the one hand, and one of technological and technocratic determinism on the other. This requires us to rethink how we understand, articulate and action education. The movement from STEM to STEAM across education policy and practice highlights the intra-action between the sciences and the arts and the potential of transdisciplinary creativities and pedagogies to excite, inspire and deepen our understanding of who we are in and of the world and how we make sense of our world. But the benefits of STEAM education remain undertheorised and inequitably distributed, for STEAM education remains a complex and highly contested construct. In this talk I will provide a case for repositioning STEAM education as democratised enactments of education, where arts and sciences are not separate or even separable endeavours. I will draw upon the critical knowledges and creativities of scientists, artists and educators, working in industry and education, as evidence utilising both the human and non-human, to illuminate practices, doings and actions as enactments for re-visioning posthumanist transdisciplinary creativities and pedagogies.The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
ELISA KUPERS: Zooming in on Micro-Level Creativity in Education UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | Since Ken Robinson argued that ‘schools kill creativity’, there is an ongoing debate about the role of education in the development of children’s creative capabilities. In this talk I will pose a different view: not of the school as an ‘outside force’ impacting (for better or worse) on creativity, but of children’s creativity emerging in everyday interactions between the child, their teacher, their peers and the physical and cultural environment the school represents. I will discuss what our research, that zooms in on these everyday interactions, tells us about creative development, and what the implications are for teachers’ professional development.The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
PAM BURNARD Re-visioning posthumanist transdisciplinary creativities and pedagogies: New directions UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | Our global community is at a pivotal juncture caught between a future of environmental and social instability on the one hand, and one of technological and technocratic determinism on the other. This requires us to rethink how we understand, articulate and action education. The movement from STEM to STEAM across education policy and practice highlights the intra-action between the sciences and the arts and the potential of transdisciplinary creativities and pedagogies to excite, inspire and deepen our understanding of who we are in and of the world and how we make sense of our world. But the benefits of STEAM education remain undertheorised and inequitably distributed, for STEAM education remains a complex and highly contested construct. In this talk I will provide a case for repositioning STEAM education as democratised enactments of education, where arts and sciences are not separate or even separable endeavours. I will draw upon the critical knowledges and creativities of scientists, artists and educators, working in industry and education, as evidence utilising both the human and non-human, to illuminate practices, doings and actions as enactments for re-visioning posthumanist transdisciplinary creativities and pedagogies.The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
PANEL: Creative New Normal (CNN): A Paradigm Shift? UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | We humans miss much in our world. Sometimes a change to nonlinear “lenses” helps us see phenomena for the first time. We revisit “norms” for our everyday creative experience—sometimes not about a “norm” at all. Five constructs and examples are considered from “chaos and complexity” theory in areas we (yes, you and I) already intuitively know, with relevance to ourselves as “self-in-world”: sudden (think Aha! Moment), emergent, balancing, alive, and interdependent. New realizations can also enhance creative *teaching* —supporting learners’ awe, wonder, and greater awareness, while helping our endangered planet embrace life-enhancing paradigms! Ruth Richards, M.D., Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Saybrook University & Associated Distinguished Professor, Calif. Institute of Integral Studies Richard Talley, Ph.D., Alumnus, Saybrook UniversityEileen Douglas, Doctoral Candidate, Saybrook UniversityGayle Byock, Former Asst. Vice Chancellor of Research, UCLAThe University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
JAMES KAUFMAN: Creativity: For Everyone – and For Good Outcomes UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
MACIEJ KARWOSKI: Creative Agency in Learning UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | Contrary to widespread beliefs, schools and education in general play a vital and mostly positive role in developing students’ creativity. In a similar vein, creative thinking and behavior are critical to effective learning. This talk will summarize evidence showing how students’ creative agency—their willingness to explore unknown paths driven by creative confidence (conviction about their creativity) and creative centrality (the importance of creativity for one’s identity)—drives their learning process, school functioning, and achievement. It will highlight the opportunities and provide examples of how to strengthen students’ agency to make them effective learners.The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
THALIA GOLDSTEIN: Thinking On Stage: The Creativity of Theatre Education UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | Theatre has long been tied to such disparate outcomes as imagination, empathy, emotional understanding and creativity. However, research on what actually happens in a theatre classroom and how the skills and habits of mind built by acting classes may be tied to social, emotional, and cognitive outcomes has been lacking. In this talk, Dr. Goldstein will discuss the elements of theatre education that integrate, use, and may foster both social and cognitive creativity for adolescents, and how theatre spaces are safe and contained environments for embodying and engaging with new material. The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
JANE PIIRTO: What Do Creators Really Do? Teaching To Creativity Organically Ratings Q&A UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | In my book, Creativity for 21st Century Skills: How to Embed Creativity into the Classroom, I discuss Five Core Attitudes, Eight I’s, and General Practices for Enhancing Creativity. This session will give an overview of these, with examples for personal growth, for teaching, and for staff development. The Five Core Attitudes are (1) Openness to Experience; (2) Tolerance for Ambiguity; (3) Self-Discipline; (4) Group Trust; (5) Risk-Taking. The Eight I’s are Insight, Intuition, Inspiration, Improvisation, Incubation, Imagery, Imagination, and Intention. The General Practices are Ritual, Exercise, and A Decision to Live a Creative Life.The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
MARK RUNCO: Insights on Creativity and Learning UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | This presentation begins by placing authentic learning on the list of benefits of creativity. It draws from Piaget's To Understand is to Invent and my own chapter, "To Understand is to Create," the key idea being that all understanding is constructed. There is a brief review of the underlying processes and exploration of other evidence, aside from genetic epistemology, for the importance of creativity in learning. The conclusion offered is that authentic learning is the most broadly applicable expression of creativity and therefore arguably the most important kind of creativity. It not only plays a role in everyday creative acts (which do not take place in a formal domain) but also represents a universal, which means that it plays a role in all domains of creative performance. This presentation will (a) explore exactly how creativity supports authentic learning and (b) contrast it with the rote learning that is too often accepted in educational settings. The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
MATT WORWOOD: Education for The Future Creative UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | What skills will Future Creatives need in 2033 and beyond, and how might they co-produce in collaboration with Generative AI? In this presentation, Matt and Cyndi, co-hosts of the Fueling Creativity in Education podcast, will explore this question based on ten actions they've identified from their 100+ interviews with Creativity researchers, scholars, and educators.The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
CAROL MULLEN: Creativity Beyond Borders: A Fulbright Project in Action UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | How can creativity be released in the face of constraints, such as high-stakes testing demands? I discuss application of the 4-C Creativity Model in learning spaces across China, Canada, and Australia. Based on my book Revealing Creativity: Exploration in Transnational Education Cultures (Springer), I describe my innovative method for addressing obstacles to creativity that are both environmental and personal. Through an encounter with the 4-C Creativity Model (originated by researchers Kaufman and Beghetto), I reveal ways to guide creative expression among diverse cultural groups. Session attendees may choose to adapt the dynamic model to reveal creativity in their own settings.The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
PAUL SOWDEN: Creating a ‘Creativity Collaborative’ of Schools UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | What happens when a group of 12 primary schools partner with a University to form a ‘Creativity Collaborative’ to foster teaching for creativity across the school curriculum? I will share our experiences from a three year project, funded by Arts Council England, that is exploring the context, knowledge, agency, pedagogies and leadership needed for creativity to take root and flourish in our schools. The path has not always been smooth, but ultimately has led to teachers with a deep understanding of how to foster creativity, an inclusive approach to education and engaged children who have learned how to be creative.The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
BONNIE CRAMOND: E. Paul Torrance, the Scholar, the Teacher, the Man UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | E. Paul Torrance, often called the Father of Creativity, was born more than 100 years ago and died 21 years ago. However, his life and work retain relevance for those interested in creativity. As a former student and colleague of his, I plan to share a bit of the scholar, the teacher, and the man I knew. I hope that those who listen to this may feel inspired by him and encouraged to do what they can to continue to nurture creativity in themselves and others.The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
ANDREW VALENTINE: Can we make engineers creative? UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | This talk will focus on highlighting some of the current limitations that are present within many university settings and curricula which can make it difficult to effectively teach and meaningfully enhance engineering students’ creativity skills during their studies. The talk will also focus on identifying different possible ways to address these concerns, including the merits of directly teaching students creativity and ideation heuristics. The effects that these can have on issues such as overcoming idea fixation, or spending insufficient time on understanding or framing the problem will be discussed.The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
Panel Discussion: Exploring and Expanding the Work of E.Paul Torrance UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-29 | Embark on an enlightening journey with us as Bonnie Cramond takes the reins to moderate a dynamic panel discussion! Join our esteemed panelists Fredricka Reisman, Kobus Neethling, Marianne Solomon, Robert Alan Black, and Kyung Hee Kim as they delve into the groundbreaking work of E. Paul Torrance. Get ready for an engaging exploration of Torrance's legacy and its impact on creativity and innovation. From insightful anecdotes to thought-provoking analysis, this discussion promises to be both enriching and inspiring! Don't miss out on this opportunity to gain valuable insights and perspectives.•Bonnie Cramond, bcramond@uga.edu•Fredricka Reisman, reismafk@drexel.edu•Kobus Neethling, kobus@kobusneethling.co.za•Marianne Solomon, msol48@gmail.com•Robert Alan Black, alaniscre8ng@gmail.com•Kyung Hee Kim, kkim@wm.eduThe University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
Spring 2024 Convocation Ceremony - Mary Frances Early College of Education UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-11 | Spring 2024 Convocation Ceremony - Mary Frances Early College of EducationCongratulations to all of our graduates! Well done.If you'd like a text-only caption stream during the ceremony, please visit this link:captionedtext.com/client/event.aspx?CustomerID=2620&EventID=5772670The University of Georgiacopyright © 2023
Singing a New Song in a Strange Land - James Weidman UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-01 | Singing a New Song in a Strange Land - James WeidmanThe Singular Creativity of African American Music is a mini conference organized by the Torrance Center for Creativity in the Mary Frances Early College of Education at the University of Georgia. The mini conference precedes the 2023 Annual Torrance Lecture delivered by Dr. Portia K. Maultsby.The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
A Discussion of Carlos Simons Requiem for the Enslaved - Sydney Passmore UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-01 | A Discussion of Carlos Simon's "Requiem for the Enslaved" - Sydney PassmoreThe Singular Creativity of African American Music is a mini conference organized by the Torrance Center for Creativity in the Mary Frances Early College of Education at the University of Georgia. The mini conference precedes the 2023 Annual Torrance Lecture delivered by Dr. Portia K. Maultsby.The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
Summer 1986: Anita Baker Introduced Us, Patrice Rushen Did the Rest - Ed Pavlić UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-01 | Summer 1986: Anita Baker Introduced Us, Patrice Rushen Did the Rest - Ed PavlićThe Singular Creativity of African American Music is a mini conference organized by the Torrance Center for Creativity in the Mary Frances Early College of Education at the University of Georgia. The mini conference precedes the 2023 Annual Torrance Lecture delivered by Dr. Portia K. Maultsby.The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
African-American Jazz Musicians in China in the 1020s and 1030s - Marketus Presswood UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-01 | African-American Jazz Musicians in China in the 1020s and 1030s - Marketus PresswoodThe Singular Creativity of African American Music is a mini conference organized by the Torrance Center for Creativity in the Mary Frances Early College of Education at the University of Georgia. The mini conference precedes the 2023 Annual Torrance Lecture delivered by Dr. Portia K. Maultsby.The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
Seat in the Shade 2024 UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-05-01 | Misha's PoetryCast and the Mary Frances Early College of Education present Seat in the Shade 2024.
A Language and Literacy Education Department (LLED) conversation about Israel-Palestine - March 2024 UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-04-19 | A Language and Literacy Education Department (LLED) conversation about Israel-Palestine - March 18, 2024In this conversation Language and Literacy Education Department (LLED) faculty Dr. Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor and LLED alum, Alaa Hedeeb discuss their personal and family experiences in the Middle East region and the professional connections they are making to the fields of TESOL and World Language Education.Additional language captions produced using the Google auto-translate feature.Unawareby Steve Skinner(BMI 100%)Licensed through SmartSoundsThe University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2024
Use Science Fiction To Teach Students to Save the World UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-04-11 | THE POWER OF NARRATIVES ACROSS DISCIPLINES: A CREATIVE MINI-CONFERENCE Organizer: UGA Torrance Center (Director - Anna Abraham)Date: Oct 12, 2022Speaker: Kimberly Van Orman (UGA, Institute for Artificial Intelligence)Talk Title: How Do We Teach Students to Save the World? Use Science Fiction!Talk Summary: The advances in AI are coming fast and most of us interact with it in ways we couldn’t have imagined as children. But, a lot of this innovation is causing real harm—machines are picking up the same biases found in the broader culture but adding a sense of “objectivity.” Students see technological progress as inevitable and can’t imagine what they could do to intervene, even when they see the ethical issues. Dr. van Orman plan to incorporate science fiction as a means of helping them to imagine possible worlds and hope that by imagining different futures, they feel more empowered to try to create them. The University of Georgiacopyright © 2022
CREATING THE CONDITIONS FOR CREATIVITY - Pireeni Sundaralingam UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-04-11 | Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development presents the 2023 Torrance Festival of IdeasCREATING THE CONDITIONS FOR CREATIVITY - Pireeni SundaralingamThe demand for creative thinking and innovative problem-solving has never been higher, in business, in classrooms, and across our rapidly changing planet. This panel will explore the neuro-cognitive data on how creativity can be shaped by different spaces, from the height of our office ceilings to the design of VR and other digital spaces with which we interact, and how this impacts our cognitive agility for adapting to the future. Pireeni Sundaralingam has conducted cognitive research at M.I.T and Oxford as well as leading the research program at Silicon Valley’s Center for Humane Technology. As principal advisor on human potential at the United Nations Museum, she spearheaded strategy on behavior change around key global challenges, and is currently Interdisciplinary Catalyst at Oxford University’s oldest college, as well as founder and CEO of Neuro-Resilience Consulting. Panel Discussants: Mark Callahan (UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art) and Elizabeth King (UGA Odum School of Ecology)Session Host: Anna Abraham (UGA Torrance Center)The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2023
THERE ARE NO FACTS: AI AND EVERYDAY LIFE - Mark Shepard UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-04-11 | Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development presents the 2023 Torrance Festival of IdeasTHERE ARE NO FACTS: AI AND EVERYDAY LIFE - Mark ShepardHow attentive algorithms and extractive data practices are shaping space, influencing behavior, and colonizing everyday life. Articulating post-truth territory as an architectural and infrastructural condition, this talk examines how these spatial architectures of attention and data mining are in turn situated within broader histories of empiricism, objectivity, science, colonialism, and perception. Mark Shepard is an artist, architect and researcher whose work addresses contemporary entanglements of people and data, code and space, knowledge and power. His book, "There Are No Facts: Attentive Algorithms, Extractive Data Practices and the Quantification of Everyday Life," was published by MIT Press (2022). Session host: Anna Abraham, Torrance Center for Creativity & Talent Development, Mary Frances Early College of Education at the University of GeorgiaThe University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2023
COGNITIVE & PERSONALITY DETERMINANTS OF CREATIVITY, NOVELTY, AND USEFULNESS IN MINECRAFT - Amy Shaw UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-04-11 | Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development presents the 2023 Torrance Festival of IdeasCREATIVE MINECRAFTERS: COGNITIVE & PERSONALITY DETERMINANTS OF CREATIVITY, NOVELTY, AND USEFULNESS IN MINECRAFT - Any ShawIn response to the growing interest in utilizing sandbox video games like Minecraft for assessment and training purposes, the study explored the concept of creativity in Minecraft as well as examined the personal characteristics (i.e., cognitive abilities and personality traits) that were predictive of individuals’ Minecraft creative performance. Dr. Amy Shaw is currently an assistant professor of psychology at University of Macau. She graduated from the industrial-organizational psychology program at Rice University in 2017. Before returning to academia, Amy worked as a research scientist developing intelligence and personality assessments for a test publisher headquartered in Atlanta, GA. Session host: Anna Abraham, Torrance Center for Creativity & Talent Development, Mary Frances Early College of Education at the University of GeorgiaThe University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2023
CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF ATHENS SCIENCE CAFÉ - Jordan Argrett UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-04-11 | Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development presents the 2023 Torrance Festival of IdeasCELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF ATHENS SCIENCE CAFÉ - Jordan ArgrettThe goal of the Athens Science Café (ASC) is to facilitate a connection between the scientific community of Athens, GA, and the Athens community at large. We do so by hosting scientific conversations similar to a TED talk at local breweries and coffee shops. It is our current mission to reach a more diverse group of Athenians. To do this, we tailor café topics for our audience based on community feedback and hold free events at accessible community spaces in and around the university. Jordan is a second-year graduate student and the director of Athens Science Cafe. As his first year in charge of ASC, Jordan is poised to elevate ASC in any way possible. He hopes to bring diversity to ASC by inviting underrepresented speakers, expanding our partnerships with venues, and partnering with organizations who share our mission to highlight the excellent research conducted at UGA with all members of the Athens community. Session hosts: Anna Abraham (UGA Torrance Center) and Katherine Ireland (UGA DigiLab)The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2023
BACKTRACKING APATHY: A NOVEL APPROACH TO MOTIVATION - Chris Holmes UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-04-11 | Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development presents the 2023 Torrance Festival of IdeasBACKTRACKING APATHY: A NOVEL APPROACH TOMOTIVATION - Chris HolmesPerplexed by students’ apparent apathy toward school – and dissatisfied with experts’ solutions – this teacher interviewed hundreds of teenagers around the country about motivation, school, and life. Here’s what he learned. Chris Holmes is a gifted education specialist from St. Louis, Missouri, but throughout his 22-year-career he’s also taught journalism, creative writing, psychology, history, literature, special education, and dropout prevention. Session host: Michael Barger, Department of Educational Psychology, Mary Frances Early College of Education at the University of GeorgiaThe University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2023
INSIDE THE METAVERSE: CARRARO LAB’S SPACETELLING - Gerald Cupchik & Andrea Carraro UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-04-11 | Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development presents the 2023 Torrance Festival of IdeasINSIDE THE METAVERSE: CARRARO LAB’S SPACETELLING - Gerald Cupchik & Andrea CarraroThe interview explores digital languages by presenting the new codes of virtual reality, through various examples of digital works that have won international awards and have been inspired by ancient forms of immersive culture, from cave paintings to cathedrals, from the art of memory to enlightenment encyclopedias. Andrea Carraro is a cultural operator in the field of contemporary art, as an artist and as a curator. He is a multimedia author in the digital business, active in Italian and international cultural heritage. He tries to enable history to resonate in the present time, through a combination of fine arts, anthropology, and new technologies. Gerald Cupchik has been a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto since 1974. He was president of three international organizations, including: the International Association for Empirical Aesthetics (1990-94), Psychology and the Arts, of the American Psychological Association (1996-97), and the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (1998-2000). He received the Rudolf Arnheim Award in 2010 from the American Psychological Association and the Gustav Fechner Award in August 2018 from the International Association for Empirical Aesthetics, both for distinguished research and service. His research interests include creative imagination in design and the arts, literary and visual aesthetic creation and reception, emotional experience, and social communication. He published “The Aesthetics of Emotion: Up the Down Staircase of the Mind-Body” 2016 (Cambridge University Press). This book was accompanied by a series of interviews with artists and lectures related to his book which can be found on YouTube. His research papers are available on Research Gate. Session host: Desiree I. Sharpe, Torrance Center for Creativity & Talent Development, Mary Frances Early College of Education at the University of GeorgiaThe University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2023
FIGHTING PLASTIC WASTE & MARINE DEBRIS - Jenna Jambeck UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-04-11 | Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development presents the 2023 Torrance Festival of IdeasFIGHTING PLASTIC WASTE & MARINE DEBRIS - Jenna JambeckAn interview with Dr. Jenna Jambeck, who is internationally recognized for her research on plastic waste in the ocean and for the Marine Debris Tracker app she co-created with fellow faculty member Kyle Johnsen. Named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow for her work investigating the scale of plastic pollution and galvanizing efforts to address plastic waste, Jenna Jambeck is the Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor of Environmental Engineering in the University of Georgia College of Engineering. She notes that being active in research helps bring current environmental engineering issues into the classroom for students. Session hosts: Anna Abraham (UGA Torrance Center) and Katherine Ireland (UGA DigiLab)The University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2023
MAKING SENSE WITH GENERATIVE LEARNING ACTIVITIES - Logan Fiorella UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-04-11 | Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development presents the 2023 Torrance Festival of IdeasMAKING SENSE WITH GENERATIVE LEARNING ACTIVITIES - Logan FiorellaHow can instructors help students make sense of what they are l earning? In this talk, Fiorella reviews research from his lab exploring the benefits and boundary conditions of generative learning activities, including learning by explaining and learning by drawing. Dr. Fiorella is an associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Georgia. He studies the cognitive science of learning and its implications for instruction, particularly how students learn from explanations, examples, and visualizations. Session host: Christopher Bell, graduate student, Department of Psychology at the University of GeorgiaThe University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2023
CULTURALLY SUSTAINING MEDIA - Rara Reines UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-04-11 | Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development presents the 2023 Torrance Festival of IdeasCULTURALLY SUSTAINING MEDIA: HOW EMERGING PLATFORMS CENTER AGENCY, DIGNITY AND MULTIPLICITY - Rara ReinesThis presentation is centered around emerging global media platforms that center anti-racist and culturally informed action. This discussion is framed by a historical lens that traces how legacies of transnational, community-run media shape current opportunities for action towards more equitable futures. Rara is co-founder of GroundBreakers and a postgraduate student in race, ethnicity and postcolonial studies at University College London. She previously worked with Ashoka on an initiative working to address structural racism in U.S. housing policy. Rara is passionate about advancing culturally sustaining models of community building globally. Session host: Madison Rodriguez, Graduate Student, Mary Frances Early College of Education at the University of GeorgiaThe University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2023
THE PUZZLE OF TEACHING FOOD SECURITY - Maria Navarro UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-04-11 | Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development presents the 2023 Torrance Festival of IdeasTHE PUZZLE OF TEACHING FOOD SECURITY - Maria NavarroMaria Navarro will discuss lessons learned from working with college students in courses studying food systems and will propose strategies to help students analyze complex problems; evaluate solutions and consequences; collaborate with peers; and explore their own potential contribution to food security. Dr. Navarro is a professor in the department of agricultural leadership, education, and communication at the University of Georgia. She teaches courses on food security, change theory, and teaching methods. Her research focuses on high-impact practices and interdisciplinary education in higher education. Session host: Anna Abraham, Torrance Center for Creativity & Talent Development, Mary Frances Early College of Education at the University of GeorgiaThe University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2023
THE STEALTH OCCUPATION OF HOLLYWOOD - Roger Stahl UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education 2024-04-11 | Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development presents the 2023 Torrance Festival of IdeasTHE STEALTH OCCUPATION OF HOLLYWOOD - Roger StahlWe’ve always known that the Pentagon and CIA lend a hand to Hollywood to gain some leverage over the story. A vast tranche of new documentation, however, reveals these agencies have exerted editorial control over thousands of film and TV scripts. Dr. Roger Stahl is a professor of communication studies at the University of Georgia. He specializes in rhetoric and media, particularly the role played by the entertainment industries in the history of war propaganda. Session host: Moni Basu, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of GeorgiaThe University of GeorgiaThe Mary Frances Early College of Educationcopyright © 2023
