Festival of INNOVATION
By CECIL HILLS HIGH SCHOOL
COLLABORATE
COLLABORATE with others in online and face-to-face environments on a common goal.
Collaboration is the process of two or more people working together to complete a task or achieve a goal. Collaboration is similar to cooperation. Most collaboration requires leadership, although the form of leadership can be social within a decentralised and egalitarian group.
ENGAGE
ENGAGE with real-world issues, opportunities, challenges and problems.
Real world problem solving is what we do everyday. It required flexibility, resilience, resourcefulness and a certain degree of creativity. A crucial feature is that it involves continuous engagement and interaction with the real world/environment as not only a source of inspiration for new ideas but as a tool to facilitate creative thinking.
COMMUNICATE
COMMUNICATE and convey ideas using a range of communication modes and tools for a variety of different forums.
Able communicators can adjust their tone and style according to their audience, comprehend and act efficiently on instructions and explain complex issues. Communication is also an important aspect of leadership, since leaders must be able to delegate clearly and comprehensibly.
INNOVATE
INNOVATE and create new ideas, services, products and solutions for situations and audiences/users.
Innovation is the process of translating new ideas, creative thoughts or new imaginations. Innovation is often also viewed as the application of better solutions that meet new requirements, unarticulated needs or existing needs.
LEAD
LEAD and self-regulate learning by thinking critically to plan, monitor and assess work.
Critical thinking is that mode of thinking - about any subject, content or problem - in which the thinker improves that quality of his or her thinking by skillfully analysing, assessing and reconstructing it. Critical thinking is self-disciplined, self-directed, self-monitored and self-corrective thinking. It is essentially thinking about thinking