Inspired by the short film, `Caine’s Arcade,’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIFNkdq96U & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul9c-4dX4Hk) the Global Cardboard Challenge is a worldwide celebration of child creativity and the role communities and school can play in fostering it. The event challenges kids to create and build using cardboard, recycled materials and imagination. The first-ever Global Cardboard Challenge had 270+ events in 41 countries. This proposal is to engage the iJED attendees in a cardboard challenge to focus on the importance of creativity, imagination and innovation using inexpensive to free materials.
The iJED Cardboard Challenge:
■ engages educators in creative play
■ fosters creativity, ingenuity, resourcefulness, perseverance and teamwork
■ gives our educators an opportunity to explore their interests and passions, and make things that have an impact on others
■ provides an experience and model a method for schools to actively foster and celebrate child creativity which increases global happiness and makes for a happier, more playful world.
■ just be plain FUN!