{"id":6913,"date":"2021-09-23T10:47:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T14:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/teaching-writing\/?page_id=6913"},"modified":"2025-03-20T09:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:48:17","slug":"creativity-innovation-seminar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/teaching-writing\/research-and-professional-development\/faculty-seminars\/creativity-innovation-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Creativity & Innovation in the Writing Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

September-October 2021, facilitated by Theodora Goss<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Are you considering teaching WR 153<\/a>\u00a0in the future? In this faculty seminar, we explored theories of creativity and innovation, focusing particularly on the principles of design thinking and its non-linear, iterative steps: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test, assess. We discussed how to incorporate design thinking into our courses by creating assignments that encourage students to come up with new strategies and approaches, develop and refine their ideas in response to feedback, and learn from productive failure. This seminar was theoretical and practical: as we learned about design thinking, we also used it to create course material for WR 153 so we can help our students become more creative in their thinking and writing. <\/span><\/p>\n

Review the seminar reading materials, slides, and presentation videos below.
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Session 1 Materials<\/h6>
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Introduction to Design Thinking: Understand and Empathize<\/h3>\n

In this session, we discussed what design thinking is and how we can use it in our classrooms. We asked ourselves what our students want and need in our writing classes, and started thinking about how we can create or adapt a WR 153 course.
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