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=**Module 10: Creativity and Innovation**=

**__Standards Addressed__**

 * = NETS-S 2007= ||
 * ==1== || ==Creativity and Innovation== ||
 * || Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students: ||
 * a. || apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes. ||
 * b. || create original works as a means of personal or group expression. ||
 * c. || use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues. ||
 * d. || identify trends and forecast possibilities. ||

__Discovery Learning and Performance__
When people are asked to "invent" a solution to a problem, they must draw upon previous knowledge, skills, creativity, and experience. They also recognizes areas where new learnings must be acquired in order to understand or address the problem. This information must then be applied, analyzed, synthesized, and evaluated. Through critical and creative thinking and problem-solving, ideas become reality people create inventive solutions, illustrate their ideas, and make models of their inventions.

You have reached the end of a challenging course in applying media and technology. The activity for this module will challenge you to use all you have learned in the course as well as your own creative, innovative mind! Process is an extremely important part of this assignment, but you will also have a finished product as well. Keep detailed notes for each of the steps below. You'll turn in your notes as well as your final product to the Discussion Board.
 * 1) **Mess Finding:** Think of a mess or a challenge in your world that might could be addressed by media and/or technology. It could be related to another class or your major. It could be more of a personal nature. We have to identify and acknowledge this first before we can proceed.
 * 2) **Data Finding:** Once the general mess is defined, the next stage involves "taking stock"--unearthing and collecting information, knowledge, facts, feelings, opinions, and thoughts to sort out and clarify your mess more specifically. What do you know about the situation, and what do you still need to know?
 * 3) **Problem Finding:** Now that your data is collected, you need to formulate a "problem statement" that expresses the "heart" of the situation. You must try to put aside the common assumption that you "already know what the problem is" and try to state the problem in such a manner as to invite novel perspectives on it.
 * 4) **Idea Finding:** This is the state in which you brainstorm as many ideas or alternatives as possible for dealing with your problem statement. Don't evaluate your ideas at this point, merely list them as an idea pool from which you'll draw in putting together a variety of solutions to your problem. List and/or Sketch as many factors associated with your challenge/problem as you can. Once you hit the point that you can list any more, make yourself list at least five more! Share your list with a fellow classmate or a friend, asking them to add any other ideas to your list.
 * 5) **Solution Finding:** Now that you have a number of ideas that can serve as possible solutions to your problem, it's time to evaluate them systematically. Group all your ideas according to several different criteria. Criteria depend on the project, but they might sort them from innovative to common, from simple to complex, from beautiful to ugly, from useful to non-functional, from durable to temporary, from precious to cheap, and so on. From your ranked lists, select a few possible solutions to work with more in-depth. Write down why you chose each of those ideas. For each of these selected ideas, make many, varied predictions about the idea. Forecast what cause and effect relationships might occur between this solution and your challenge.
 * 6) **Solution Mockup:** Having decided upon the best solution, it's time to formulate a plan of action to implement your solution. Determine what kind of help you'll need, what obstacles or difficulties might get in the way, and what specific short- and long-term steps you are going to take to resolve the challenge. Create a model or a prototype product to test.

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