Stephen Heppell on Measuring Creativity
Unfortunately I was not able to attend the videocast of Stephen Heppell’s presentation at the 21st Century Learning @ Hong Kong Conference. I had spoken with Stephen initially about the conference when we met up at BETT in January. I have always been a big fan of Stephen’s ideas since meeting him initially during my Masters Studies at Curtin University in the early 90s.
I do not have Stephen’s presentation to share with you here but what I do have is some notes taken by David Muir of a recent talk he gave at the Lighthouse called “Learning Spaces, Working Places”
What I really like about the discussion here is the great question towards the end of the notes that I have heard from Stephen before:
How do you measure creativity? How can we work out the struggle of the ‘exchange rate’ of assessment? What is the equivalent of a 1500 word essay?
- An animation?
- Managing an online discussion for a week?
- Creating a 10 second video?
- Scripting and posting a 3 minute podcast?
- Authoring an explanation in Flash?
- Annotating a week’s worth of delicious links?
The additional points are copied from Ewan McIntosh’s blog (Ewan obviously attended the same presentation.)
I am curious to hear what others think of this. If you need incentive for trying to get this right, consider this quote that was apparently also made by Heppell:
“In the next 30 years, more children will leave school worldwide than in the whole of history up to now.”
Food for thought?
Also posted on the 21st Century Learning @ Hong Kong ning.
Filed under: Educational Conferences, Learning for a Flat World | Tagged: Assessment, learning, measuring
