Assignment task:
Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity by Keith Sawyer
This is a space to share your thoughts about the Learning Materials and your engagement with the activities in one of the practices in Chapter 1 of the Zig Zag text. First, plan and carry out the activities in the practice. Then, share the story of your experience, while making connections between the practice and the Learning Materials.
Part I: Plan and carry out activities from one of the three practices listed below, found in Chapter 1 of Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity: Ask. The activities in the practice may be completed individually or collaboratively.
First Practice: Find the Question
Second Practice: Search the Space
Third Practice: Transform the Problem
Part II: In an initial post, tell the story of your engagement with the activities in one of the three practices in Chapter 1. To introduce the story, tell everyone why you chose the Ask practice you selected. Then, talk about the process of carrying out the activities (individually or collaboratively), including what you learned about creative problem solving.
As part of your story, connect your experience with the activities in the Ask practice to the Shopping Cart Project video and the Creative Thinking Project videos. Imagine that the Shopping Cart Project participants or the presenters in the Creative Think Project?took the Personal Creativity Assessment. How might they relate their work to the 8 Zig Zag steps?