The evidence for the portfolio will be gathered over time by the learner and it will be in the form of digital documents, such as, for example: reflective diaries, essays, blogs, opinion pieces; photographs, drawing and animations, video or audio recordings of focus group discussions. These artefacts will be assessed against agreed criteria and the results added to the learner profile.
Creativity is usually associated with artists, who, alongside scientists and entrepreneurs, are role models for innovation in our societies. Not surprisingly, arts education is commonly said to be a means of developing skills considered as critical for innovation: critical and creative thinking, motivation, self-confidence, and ability to communicate and cooperate effectively, but also skills in non-arts academic subjects such as mathematics, science, reading and writing. This seminal report from the OECD ‘Art for Art’s Sake’ underlines the importance of the creative arts in developing all of the Key Core Competencies.
Here is a way in which the creative arts can be incorporated with STEM learning
Yet the creative arts are just one way in which creativity can be developed amongst learners, the are many other areas where creativity can be demonstrated as indicated below.
For the key core competence of creativity, the learner should provide evidence that they can:
ePortfolios, by their very nature, should inspire creativity, but learners don’t always see it that way – see this article from a US high school teacher which voices much of the frustration and lack of engagement by many students who feel they can’t fully express their creativity due to the highly prescribed requirements of their school district.
maybe ironic humour…………
“Government supervisors in Tajikistan making sure that the quotas for the next 5 year plan will be fulfilled”.
“Workers in collective farms during Stalinist times often had to be highly creative in their reporting on their production quotas”.
……Or, maybe, some music ethnography
Or art history
Picasso in Beirut – Creative Destruction
This Picasso exhibition at the Sursock Gallery in Beirut survived the terrible explosion in August 2020, which destroyed much of downtown Beirut. During his lifetime Picasso’s iconoclastic interpretations of life through his unique perceptual distortions were, at the time of their creation, challenging and for some destructive, as they challenged the artistic conventions of the day.
As with most of the Gemmayze district in Beirut, the gallery was severely damaged by the massive ordnance air blast (MOAB) from the explosion on 5 August 2020 in the port 1.5Km to the north.
The Sursock Gallery by night in happier times
