Creativity Challenge: Imagining Education
Submissions close April 15, 2025
This challenge invites instructors, staff and students in the Faculty of Education to share their creative visions of education. To participate, create an image reflecting on the future of education, diversity in education, educational spaces, or a topic of your choice related to education. Sketch, doodle, take a photograph, create a digital design, generate an image using artificial intelligence (AI) — the choice is yours! The images will be posted on Instagram for voting and the winners will be announced at the end of April.
Being Creative with Video
April 2025
Join us at LDDI’s Studio B Discovery Lab for an interactive session on enhancing assignments and presentations with video. Learn how to create dynamic and engaging content using tools like Camtasia, H5P, VideoScribe, and AI-powered solutions. We’ll explore key video production strategies, from screen recording and whiteboard animations to interactive elements that boost engagement. This session will equip you with essential skills to make your videos more impactful and visually compelling.
How It Works: This presentation is available on demand as a field trip experience at Studio B Discovery Lab. Faculty of Education instructors can book a session and bring their students for an engaging, hands-on learning opportunity. Faculty of Education instructors, faculty, and staff are also welcome to book a visit to experience the presentation individually or with a group.
For booking contact us at lddi.educ@ubc.ca
Location: Studio B Discovery Lab – Scarfe 1009
Facilitators: LDDI Team
Creativity, Play & Spontaneity for Educators
Tuesday, April 1 | 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Being creative and integrating play into university teaching can feel like too much work, chaotic, and even inappropriate: after all, what’s so playful about teaching Dewey, Deleuze, or Derrida? And, where is there even space in the curriculum?
Yet, not everything in teaching needs to be preplanned, prepped, predicted and predictable. Spontaneity can further safety in the classroom. And play in teaching can even be a way of challenging the neoliberal and colonial structures in which we work.
In this interactive, participatory workshop, Erica Mohan and Jude Walker (EDST) will show how creativity, play and spontaneity is an attitude we can adopt in our teaching rather than something to add onto our already packed syllabi. They will share their own experiences and introduce participants to activities they have used in their classes, from games to role-plays to improv and artistic playful engagements, all of which support risk-taking, make teaching and learning more fun and further the learning of both teachers and students.
This workshop welcomes faculty members, instructors, TAs and graduate students — anyone who teaches adults in some way — who are interested in exploring how creativity, play and spontaneity can improve their pedagogy and bring more joy to their teaching.
Presenters: Erica Mohan & Jude Walker
Location: Neville Scarfe, Room 1007
Blending AI and Human Creativity in Learning
Tuesday, May 13 | 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Join us for a panel discussion that delves into the dynamic intersection of generative AI and human creativity in shaping meaningful learning experiences. Designed for faculty, staff, and students, this panel will explore how AI can support educators and learners to innovate, personalize education, brainstorm ideas, and tackle challenges. At the same time, it will address critical concerns, including over-reliance on AI, the potential impact on critical thinking, and ethical implications. Join us as we navigate the opportunities, challenges, and ethical dimensions of harmonizing human ingenuity with AI collaboration.
Panelists: Dr. Ron Darvin, Dr. Danny Bakan, Dr. Sonya Woloshen & Mike Elkoussy
Location: Online (Zoom)