We have to keep up with our students! If we unleash them to be truly creative, they will push past all the boundaries we imagined and surprise us with what they can do. That means we need to know about all tech tools, and media platforms, and creative techniques we can so that we can help them make their ideas reality. Their vision often outpaces their skill, but they're still at a stage when they don't let that fact limit them. But that puts us as instructors/facilitators in a position where we need to have the know-how or the quick thinking skills to give them options of creative expression before they fall back to the same basic things they've done.
One thing that I pushed for in our group of facilitators was that the students direct the kind of project they want to do. Yes, a student can express themselves a lot within the parameters of of a set project that everyone in the class is doing, but why not give them the freedom? Are there ways this doesn't work, sure. We only had 3 days to take these projects from instruction to conception to execution, but I'm excited to see tomorrow what our students have produced.
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