Pedagogical Creativity
I've been thinking a lot about creativity this week, what it means to be creative, and how some folk feel more comfortable defining themselves as creative than others. Ultimately these thoughts had me thinking about what pedagogical creativity could be, and how often we usurp the word creative to instead use the ever present innovative instead, even though both of those words are very different in origin and connotation. Discourse around generative AI in academe sees a lot of calls for innovation, which is kind of funny because what we are seeing instead is a return to in-person blue-book testing, which I feel is kind of the opposite of innovation connotatively. Yet innovation etymologically is a mid 15th century word, from the Latin, that means to restore or renew. So I guess a return to in-person testing is a restoration of old ways of being. Creative is a relatively newer word and we thinking about it in relation to imagining something, we can look to folk like Wordsworth and...