College During the Pandemic:
How Students Create Success
The Skills of the Future The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2020 ranks resilience, stress tolerance, flexibility, and creativity among the top ten skills of 2025. The question for universities and employers then becomes how to train the next generation in these skills to set them up for success in today’s job market. Faced with […]
Animal Crossing: The “New Horizon” in Distance Learning
What is Animal Crossing? Animal Crossing is a social simulation video game series developed by Nintendo and created by Katsuya Eguchi and Hisashi Nogami. This is an open map type game that doesn’t have an end goal. It is designed for continuous play; there is no way to “win” or “complete” it. You are a […]
Student Voices
Listen to this podcast where our young intrepid reporter Elizabeth Kloek interviews three of her friends to discover what it is like to be a student during the pandemic. Elizabeth Klocek Guest Bio Elizabeth Klocek is a seventh-grader at The Seven Hills School in Ohio. She enjoys painting, drawing, playing with her puppy, […]
Creating Space When You Don’t Have Space
Take me someplace where we can be silent together. – Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things While time seems to have multiplied as the pandemic rages on, for many, space at home has vanished. Prior to the pandemic, my husband traveled a lot for work. Now we are together all the time, attempting to […]
The Most Important Thing to Put in Your School Backpack: A Letter to High Schoolers
Dear High Schooler, A new school year is starting. I know this is a weird one. You’ve probably already gathered the materials you will need this year in your backpack, or in your designated learning space if you’re doing virtual learning. But there’s one more important thing you’ll need, this year more than any other, […]
Parenting During a Pandemic Webinar
Are you a parent who is juggling work, child care, and the possibility of online schooling for your children, in a world where we cannot predict what lies ahead?
Call To Action! What Worked for You?
We recognize that the upcoming academic year will be filled with both new opportunities and perplexing challenges for both educators and parents. At Creativity and Education, where we are educators, parents, and creativity experts, we want to help. Throughout this pandemic we have all been trying different things – some of them have been heroic […]