Creativity Tools

The creativity tools that I had come across are Idea Sketch, Storybird, and Glogster.

Idea Sketch lets you easily draw a diagram - mind map, concept map, or flow chart - and convert it to a text outline, and vice versa. You can use Idea Sketch for anything, such as brainstorming new ideas, illustrating concepts, making lists and outlines, planning presentations, creating organizational charts, and more! 

   

Storybird is a fantastic site whose mission is to help students improve their reading, writing, and creative skills. Storybird gathers visually stunning artwork and images from artists and illustrators around world and invites students to turn those images into creative stories.

Additionally, Storyboard offers a number of features that incite student participation and creativity. Students can instantly receive and give feedback regarding their stories, and can even publish them on the site to be shared with thousands of other students.

Badges and rewards are also issued to recognize accomplishments and encourage students to continue to advance their writing and reading skills.

Storybird

 

Glogster EDU is a global education platform that allows students and educators to create interactive online posters that include text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds and much more.

Students and teachers have the opportunity to use Glogster as a vessel for creative thought, critical thinking, and problem solving by using images and other media to initiate student participation.

Students can tap into their inherent innovation and collaboration skills, all while having fun though this easy to use platform.

Glogster

TPACK

Technology Knowledge (TK): Is often referred to digital technologies such as laptops, the Internet, and software applications. The three creativity tools above fall into this category.

Content Knowledge (CK): Is the command of the subject. It may also include knowledge of concepts, theories, conceptual frameworks as well as knowledge about accepted ways of developing knowledge. In order for students to continue using the above creativity tools, they must understand what the tools are about; they must know the tool.

Pedagogical Knowledge (PK): Includes generic knowledge about how students learn, teaching approaches, methods of assessment and knowledge of different theories about learning.

Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK):

Pedagogical content knowledge is knowledge about how to combine pedagogy and content effectively. This is knowledge about how to make a subject understandable to learners.

Technological Content Knowledge (TCK):

Technological content knowledge refers to knowledge about how technology may be used to provide new ways of teaching content.

Technological Pedagogical Knowledge (TPK):

Technological pedagogical knowledge refers to the affordances and constraints of technology as an enabler of different teaching approaches.

Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK):

Technological pedagogical content knowledge refers to the knowledge and understanding of the interplay between CK, PK and TK when using technology for teaching and learning. It includes an understanding of the complexity of relationships between students, teachers, content, practices and technologies.