Thinking Preferences and Arts-Based Strategies to Enhance 21st Century Skills
Christine Boyko-Head
Mohawk College, Canada
Creative Problem Solving has helped organizations and businesses find innovative solutions to their biggest challenges. What if? this model could be adapted to help learners overcome writing blocks, essay anxiety, thesis anguish and proposal paralysis? This workshop shares research findings on the application of arts-based strategies and cognitive preferences in problem solving to enhance 21st Century skills in learners. Using creativity tools from the Mind the Gap Literacy project (Boyko-Head , 2018-19), this fun, fast-paced workshop highlights the connection between