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Innovative Thinking: Encouraging Creative Diversity with Video Scenarios

This highly participatory Special Session introduces video scenarios as a collaborative approach that enables students to hone innovative thinking skills while experiencing how diverse viewpoints contribute to innovation. The videos present fictitious scenarios involving individuals experiencing a variety of problems for which the audience is challenged to think of creative technology-based solutions. Emphasizing conceptual solutions, decoupled from implementation, allows students with a variety of ability and experience levels to participate equally in the exercises, highlighting the value of all voices in the creative process. It also allows the videos to be used in a wide of range classes from the general education and introductory levels through senior capstones in both computing and engineering. Participants in this special session will experience how video scenarios provide a platform that highlights the influence and value of diversity for creative problem solving while developing and honing innovative thinking skills. By taking part in a variety of activities, the participants will be ready to use video scenarios to easily bring collaborative exercises for innovative thinking into their classes. Videos and discussion prompts are available at www.youtube.com/virt-university in the Creativity College.