Institute of Imagination

🚨Job Alert 💡Programme Manager 🪙£32,000 FTE Come and join us at The Institute of Imagination to help deliver impactful programmes ioi.london/about-us/work-…

⏰#CrayolaCreativityWeek is in full swing, but don't forget to RSVP for the ✨LIVE✨ assembly event this Friday, Jan. 31st at 1PM EST. Celebrate the creativity your students have shown all week by putting their “Imagination in Action”! 🌈👏🥳 RSVP ➡️ bit.ly/2025ccwioi

#PrimaryTeachers - only a few days left to register to unbox your BBC micro:bit in our FREE fun webinars. We have 2 fantastic free webinars to help you to become more familiar with your BBC micro:bit and get creative in the classroom. Register your place now bit.ly/3YCNh9O #digitalskills #code @BBC_Teach

🌍 Digital Leaders 4 Sustainability A partnership between @ImaginationLdn, @katypotts, @IslingtonBC, @KingsCrossAcad1 @LEOacademies & @ChilternLT has developed a pupil-led Digital Leaders 4 Sustainability Programme. 💡 ioi.london/digital-leader… The next session is on 12/11. 🗓️

Calling all #PrimaryTeachers. Join us this November and unbox your BBC micro:bit in our FREE fun webinars for primary school teachers! We have 2 fantastic free webinars to help you to become more familiar with your BBC micro:bit and get creative in the classroom. Register here bit.ly/3YCNh9O Limited places. #digitalskills #code

Calling Primary School #Teachers Join us for Creative Sparks an @ImaginationLdn STEAM focussed programme tailored for primary school educators passionate about enhancing their teaching practices by embedding creative activities into their curriculum. bit.ly/4f4zBv0

We are excited to be hosting our online symposium this lunchtime at 12-1pm ✨ The Digital Creative: unlocking young people’s digital skills ✨with guest speakers: Sir Ian Livingstone, Cassie Hague, Shahneila Saeed and Paul Lindley OBE. This key event has a focus on #DigitalCreativity in today’s learning ecosystem and its vital impact on school aged children. A must-attend event for key decision-makers, policy makers, think tanks, educators, and academics with a focus on conveying the transformative power of play and creativity for a child’s skills development, wellbeing and future work opportunities. If you haven't yet signed up here's the link to do so. ➡️ bit.ly/3zqTkpw

🔈 NEWS!! 🔈 Join us and leading experts Sir Ian Livingstone CBE, Cassie Hague, Shahneila Saeed and Paul Lindley OBE to discuss how fusing creativity with digital can inspire the development of key skills for the future. ✨The Digital Creative: unlocking young people’s digital skills. ✨ ➡ Wednesday 9th October ➡ 12-1pm, online. ➡ Register to attend: bit.ly/3zqTkpw #Digitalskills #futureskills #Learningthroughplay

One week away until our lunchtime symposium: The Digital Creative. We are delighted to invite you to join us and leading experts including our Patron Sir Ian Livingstone, Cassie Hague, Shahneila Saeed and Paul Lindley OBE to discuss how blending creativity with digital can inspire the development of key skills for the future. The Digital Creative: unlocking young people’s digital skills. ➡ Wednesday 9th October ➡ 12-1pm (BST) online. ➡ Register to attend: bit.ly/3zqTkpw

We are looking forward to attending the @ImaginationLdn upcoming symposium on digital creativity. Programme Director @Shahneila1 will be talking about our play-based approach to teaching and @uk_ie proposal for a new Digital Creativity GCSE. Why not join us!

The Institute of Imagination is working alongside children through schools and communities across the UK to ignite their imaginations, build their creative thinking skills and to raise their aspirations. Through our impact work, we know that creativity leads to greater engagement in learning. We are also supporting teachers in schools to help foster creativity in education. We welcome the Culture Secretary's comments to drive imagination and creativity forward to build the skills our children need not only for the future but for today. #Creativity #Imagination #Futureskills

Digital Leaders 4 Sustainability 🌎 30 mins Online Lunchtime Meets (Half-Termly) 🌎 Pupil-led Digital project ideas, resources & peer support inc Digital Literacy, tech4Good 🌎important focus Sustainability! 👇 1st Meet 1 Oct led @ChilternLT ioi.london/digital-leader… 🙏share🙏

For the first time ever, the @OECD's #PISA assessment measured the creative thinking skills of students across the world, with some interesting results. Here are some key takeaways that show the importance of building opportunities for creative thinking, imagination and a growth mindset in children that we hope the new Government in power @UKLabour and the Secretary of State for Education @bphillipsonMP can take onboard. ➡ Most of the countries and economies that scored above the OECD average in creative thinking also outperformed the OECD average in mathematics, reading and science. ➡ Indices of imagination and adventurousness, openness to intellect, curiosity, perspective taking and persistence are positively associated with creative thinking performance. ➡ Classroom pedagogies can make a difference. Across OECD countries, between 60-70% of students reported that their teachers value their creativity, that they encourage them to come up with original answers, and that they are given a chance to express their ideas in school. These students scored slightly higher than their peers in creative thinking, even after accounting for students and school characteristics and their mathematics and reading performance. ➡ Socio-economically advantaged students outperform their peers on average showing the increasing need for creative thinking opportunities for children from underserved areas. More on this research: lnkd.in/dgQNy6Vp

We’ve joined forces with ace children's magazine @TWJSciNat give away 10 of our Imagination Boxes. Grab a copy of their latest issue to find out how to win one of them, plus how to make a spectacular multicoloured bubble snake. #giveaway #stemeducation #childrensreading #bubbles

Today we were at the 4th International Possibility Studies Conference @CamEdFac where @MissPhilbin @tom_doust presented our paper on ‘Measuring Imagination : Unveiling the impact of the Divergent Association Task on students’ creative thinking

What a great day we had yesterday @LEGO_Group offices #teachertraining with our #TowerHamlets Hub schools, sharing our knowledge on the importance of creativity and Learning through Play. Led by our amazing @MissPhilbin.