Schools as testbeds for our vital creativity

Online Learning ¬∑ Schools as testbeds for our vital creativity   In times of great challenge, such as the ones we are living through today, human creativity is what we need if we are to emerge into a better world. It is the pillar on which we need to rebuild our education system, the anchor to which we need to attach our knowledge and skill and the lodestone guiding the prioritisation of our time as educators. For over the next decade we will have to think divergently and come up with new ways of being if we are to thrive after this terrible pandemic. Just as GPs changed a century of face-to-face consultations and moved within a matter of weeks to telephone and online appointments, so we need to rethink the ways we do school. In Educating Ruby: What our Children Really Need to Learn (Claxton and Lucas, 2015) Guy Claxton and I made a case for a different kind of school curriculum, one which focused on 7Cs - confidence, curiosity, collaboration, communication, creativity,