ED2123 - The DEFI Annual Event

The IB Learner Profile (IBLP) is the guiding pedagogical outcome for all four educational programmes for students in the ages 3 to 18, as well as the guiding principle for the design of IB assessments. It is aligned with 21C pedagogy, fostering creativity, collaboration, curiosity and critical thinking (4Cs). The value IB places on the 4Cs is evident in assessment design and rubrics, explicitly rewarding aspects of creativity and curiosity as evidenced in assessment products where possible. IB recognizes the release of sophisticated AI tools as an unavoidable development. While AI tools currently by many are seen as a threat to common assessment formats, IB standpoint is that assessment and assessment design will need to adjust. In what ways will AI benefit the learning and practice of 21CS? Will it strangle or free up creative thinking? How important will critical thinking and writing skills be?

Despite the fact that research on creativity skills have garnered the attention of researchers and practitioners for decades there is a lack of valid, reliable and accessible instruments for enhancing and measuring these critical skills. Leveraging insights from research and development of the first global assessment of creative thinking in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2022 and formative assessment of creative thinking embedded into learning-through-play by The LEGO Foundation and BrainPOP, this presentation will introduce new methods for helping learners demonstrate their creative potential across a range of contexts and modalities. Examples for technology-enhanced assessment tasks and human-centered AI technologies will be presented and future directions for further development of creative thinking assessment and development will be discussed.

In this workshop, we will discuss the importance of creativity in the workplace, and review a range of approaches that can be used to improve creative performance and creative confidence. In particular, we will focus on how analogical thinking can be used to explore different interpretations of 'the problem' and to generate different directions for 'the solution'.

Attendees of this session will gain:
- an appreciation of what employers and employees are looking for when they ask for 'more creativity'
- an understanding of the range of approaches that can be used to boost creative performance
- experience of working with one of these approaches to explore problems and solutions (either individually or in a group).