Exploring your creativity: mind maps and
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Exploring your creativity: mind maps and
- 2. Agenda Introduction Ground rules Ice break activity Assessments overview Concepts Activity 1: illustrate mind map concept Activity 2/ homework: Draw a mind map
- 4. Your Name, Please! For the first month, I'll ask you to write your name on a sticker to help me memorize it
- 6. The University of Sydney Page 6 Icebreaker activity Discuss the following: – At what point do we classify something as creative? – In what ways can creativity benefit your career and entrepreneurial journey if you're interested in pursuing business? – What strategies can we use to enhance our creativity?
- 7. The University of Sydney Page 7 Defining creativity The science of creativity is relatively new (1950+) Creativity has a social context Ideas alone do not qualify as creative outputs there must be interest and value to others For corporates this means acceptance by the company and the market
- 8. Assessment Tasks • Creative Project (Ind) (40%) • Weeks 4 and 6 • Group Innovation Project (40%) • Weeks 11 • Written Task (20%) • Week 13 8
- 9. 1. Creative Project (40%) • Assessment 1 - Creative Project • Weight: 40% • Due date: Week 4 and Weeks 6. • Individual Project • Part A: Mind Map – Week 4 (10%). Exploring ideas • Part B: Video / Poster – Week 6 (30%). Solutions. • Refer to iLearn / Assessments. 9
- 10. The areas of choice include, but are not limited to: 1. Education 2. Employment 3. Healthcare /COVID-19 4. Future Generations 5. Government Effectiveness 6. Housing 7. Disadvantaged 8. Economic Growth Societal issues- Creative project
- 11. 2. Group Innovation Project (40%) • Assessment 2 • Due Date: Weeks 11 • Weight: 40% • Task overview: • The film/video presentation will be a creative production that depicts innovative solutions and how you are preparing to lead the change in respect to your solution to the issue. • Form groups in Week 4. • Refer to iLearn / Assessments. 11
- 12. 3. Written Task (20%) • Weight: 30% • Due date: Week 13. • Task Overview: • Students will undertake prior research on an organization's innovations they will write 750 words on the following: • Communicate your findings on one contemporary innovation approach, underpin the theory and explain why the approach you chose plays an important role in organizations today. You can choose more than one approach. Throughout your writing use organizational examples, these can be from both local and global organisations. • Refer to iLearn / Assessments. 12
- 13. 13 Discussion questions • What are mind maps? • In what situations can we use them?
- 14. EXERCISE: (INDIVIDUAL) • How many windows in your building ? • How many doors in your building?
- 15. HOW WE THOUGHT ABOUT THE WINDOWS/ DOORS • How you went calculating the number of windows or doors
- 16. A Mind map • A mind map is a way to visually organize notes, thoughts, ideas, and conversations. • A Mind Map is created around a single word or text, placed in the center, to which associated ideas, words and concepts are added • You could use mind Maps to document conversations, general note taking, brainstorming, or to tweeze out a strategy or a particularly complicated situation you may face 16
- 17. MIND MAP GUIDELINES • Start in the centre of a blank page turned as landscape. Why because starting in the centre, gives your brain freedom to spread out in all directions and express itself free and naturally • Use an image or picture for your central idea. Why? Because an image is worth a 1000 words and helps you use your imagination. A central image is more interesting, keeps you focused, helps you concentrate
- 18. MIND MAP GUIDELINES Use colours throughout, three colours at minimum. Why? Because colours are as exciting to your brain as are images. Colour adds extra vibrancy and life to your mind map, it adds energy to your creative thinking… Connect your main branches to the central image and connect your second and third level branches to the first and second levels etc
- 19. MIND MAP GUIDELINES • The lines should be connected, starting from the central image. The central lines are thicker, organic and thinner as they radiate out from the centre • Make the lines the same length as the word/image they support • Develop your own personal style of Mind Mapping.
- 20. Something you absolutely love doing
- 21. Debrief time
- 23. Debrief This exercise demonstrates how we think in radial associations. 23
- 24. Group exercise: Create a mind map on one of the following topics: 24 You’ll need to draw a mind map in class based on one of the topics listed below ( you need to choose a topic and read about it) A maximum of 5-6 people can choose the same topic to ensure variety and coverage for all subjects: a) How effective is fasting as a weight loss method, and what are its potential benefits and drawbacks? b) What are the implications of the underground nature of the illegal drug trade on society and public health? c) In what ways do biases in facial recognition and AI technologies create challenges for society, and how should we address these issues? d) With gene editing technologies on the brink of commercialization, what ethical considerations should we take into account as a society? e) What are the societal implications of flying car technology being ready for implementation, and are we prepared for the challenges it may bring?
- 25. Homework 25
- 26. Homework Your Homework for Next Class: 1. Solve a Problem with Your Passion: Think of a situation in your daily life you'd love to solve. How could you use something you're absolutely passionate about to fix it? 2. Monetize Your passion: Consider how you could turn the things you love doing into a source of income. 3. Come Prepared: Please bring bond paper, notebooks, markers, and your ideas on these topics to our next session.
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