Creativity is no longer just nice to have; it’s now an indispensable skill for students to build. Participate in events centered on student creativity.

Pronita Mehrotra
Pronita Mehrotra is the Founder of MindAntix, a company that develops tools and programs to bring creativity into schools and organizations. Her work focuses on the neuroscience behind creative thinking and leverages cognitive thinking patterns in ideation and decision making. She has participated in several global conferences and conducted creativity workshops for educators and leaders.
Her work has been featured in leading publications like Harvard Business Review, Geekwire, ASCD and Education Week. MindAntix’s educational product was awarded EdTech Digest’s Cool Tool 2020 Finalist award in the 21st century skills category.
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By creating opportunities to get into a flow state, we can improve student creative and critical thinking abilities and motivate them toward learning.
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If we start teaching humans about our ability to challenge expectations, we stand a better chance of supporting our students’ educational and career outcomes.
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As edtech tools evolve to incorporate creativity building elements, they make a much bigger impact on student learning and creativity.
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It’s clear that students need to have a high intrinsic motivation driven by autonomy, competence, and relatedness for more in-depth learning to take place.
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The first step in designing an effective remote learning experience is to set the right climate by focusing on healthy communication and collaboration.
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The pandemic is causing significant disruption to the learning process and will require restructuring of lesson plans to address additional closures.
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Dr. Pronita Mehrotra shares three different tactics to extend your child’s learning and build cognitive skills like creativity and critical thinking.
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Warm-up games that not only build creativity but also teach students how to use remote learning platforms and develop good habits.
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The demands placed by the Industrial Revolution created a domino effect that resulted in changes to creative thinking and the education system.
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Counterfactual thinking is a fundamental form of musing in which we frequently engage. Counterfactual questions can build creative and critical thinking.
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Three ways adding elements of play into Project Based Learning can promote deeper learning by using real-world scenarios and encouraging creative exploration.
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Creative confidence is the belief that one has the ability to produce creative outputs and has been found to be a significant predictor of a student’s success.
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Creative brainstorming requires both individual and group work to flourish. Students need to build skills for both that produce better solutions and learning.
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Problem Finding & solving are great indicators of creativity. This article explores both sides of the paradigm and how creative thinking is linked to both.