Creative+Model+Building+with+Technology+Tools

=**NETS Creativity and Innovation**= Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students:
 * 1) apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.
 * 2) create original works as a means of personal or group expressions.
 * 3) use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues.
 * 4) identify trends and forecast possibilities (ISTE NETS www.iste.org).

Creativity: "The use of the imagination or original ideas" (www.m-w.com).

=Ask questions that require students to:=
 * Analyze** - understand information
 * Interpret** - translate information into meaning
 * Make inferences** -read between the lines and figure out what might be the meaning
 * Synthesize** - create new meaning by rearranging, combining and modifying ideas and information

=Encourage Creativity in Your Classroom=

Example: Write a report on President George Washington.

Example: “Compare President George Washington’s foreign policy to President George W. Bush’s foreign policy. Create a conversation that the two might have had if they could communicate across the centuries using email, or another technology we have been exploring.”

Look at this example online: [|Which Hurricane Tops the List?]

1. With your partner, develop a good "thinking" question for your students. Based on the modeling phenomena that you were given, construct the model that you expect your students to create while answering your question. 2. Use this Wiki to share the following information: 3. Here are the links to your pages: Modeling Domain Knowledge Modeling Systems Modeling Problems Modeling Experiences Modeling Thinking
 * Your Task...**
 * An explanation of your modeling phenomena
 * Your question
 * The model (template) you would expect your students to create