signed with something such as a solution, idea, concept, artistic expression, theory or product new and unique.
2. Assisting Techniques to Get Creativity
Creativity is really helpful and useful in daily life. However, it is not an easy craft that one can obtain. A number of experts have tried to figure out the
ways to reach creativity. This section aims to discuss several ways that can be helpful to reach creativity.
Shively points out that in language arts, creative thinking ability can be facilitated through a number of ways associated with the FFOE Fluency,
Flexibility, Originality, and Elaboration model advocated by Guilford as follows: a. Fluency or the ability in which lots of ideas which loosen up the creative
wheels is generated. It is facilitated through make a list of word choice options, or alternatives.
b. Flexibility or the ability through which question or topic can be viewed from a different angle. It is facilitated through retelling tales from a different
character’s point of view, debatingadvocating from a position that is disagreed, or make a guess of the key word behind a set of images or terms.
c. Originality or the ability through which unique or unusual products as well as unexpected ideas are produced. It is facilitated through visualizing poem about
any controversial or problematic topic, such as racism, pollution, or cruelty to animals.
d. Elaboration or the ability in which details, filling in the gaps, embellishing, and completing a creative idea are involved. It is facilitated through creating a
pass-along story or paragraph based on the list of words given, or giving figures of speech for a passage given.
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Moreover, Monahan advocates some aids or stimulus that are used to gain creativity summarized as follows:
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Candace Hackett Shively, Grow Creativity Focusing on Fluency, Flexibility, Originality, and Elaboration Skills Gives Teachers and Students an Effective Shortcut to
Developing Creativity Together, Learning Leading with Technology, 1, 2011, pp. 10—15.
a. Observation Through observing things or problems encountered, people can find out the
solutions of the problems, and even when they have done a good thing, through observation they might think of a new way to get the better thing than
the good thing obtained. b. Listening
This is an activity in which people engage with speakers. This activity can help them obtain the ideas that they do not know or have beforehand. In this
case, after they have listened and gotten the ideas, it had better to jot them. Jotting is considered useful because it can make them observe and write down
the gist of ideas that come into their mind. c. Taking Notes
This is the subsequent activity after observation and listening. It is the same as jotting in which every idea coming into mind is recorded.
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In addition, Lau reveals that creativity can be obtained through several habits summarized as follows:
a. SCAMPER SCAMPER constitutes a mnemonic for a list of ways that are used to get new
ideas. It consists of substitute something, combine it with something else, adapt something to it, modify or magnify it, put it to some other use, eliminate
something, and reverse or rearrange it. The instances of scamper are as follows:
1. Substitute: substitute the typical material for making table with unusual material, such as recycled paper.
2. Combine: a table top that is a computer touch-screen or an aquarium. 3. Adapt: Use an antique door as a table, or the stump of tree as the leg.
4. Modifymagnify: modify it into a table with lots of very thin legs 5. Put to some other use: a table with adjustable height that can double as a
bed.
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Tom Monahan, op. cit., pp. 141—143.
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