Teachers should set aside time for students to question assumptions or even class rules. Students questioning their classroom norms can lead to 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.
Author Posts
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Analogical reasoning is important not just in science but fundamental to cognition/creativity and applicable in every field, be it mathematics or literature.
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The ability to connect unrelated things, or associational thinking, is fundamental to creative thinking, simple exercises can have a huge impact on creativity.
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Humans were just one branch of our genus, but we out-achieve the others. What made humans special? This article discusses one factor- creative ideas.
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While IQ scores have continued to rise, creativity scores among students in the US had been declining since the 1990s. Are we becoming less intelligent
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What jobs are safe in this age of automation? Jobs that highlight that will thrive will rely on human skills that machines can’t emulate, I.E. STEM Creativity.