This clip from Schooling for a Digital Culture (2017) explores the growing gap between “Google knowing” and real-world understanding. In an age of instant answers, students can access endless information—but are they truly learning it? Educator and filmmaker Matthew Worwood reflects on how schools are struggling to clarify the difference between information retrieval and deep knowledge, and what that means for teaching, learning, and critical thinking in the digital age. 🎥 From the Creativity and Digital Media in Education channel, where we explore creativity, technology, and the future of learning.

This clip from Schooling for a Digital Culture (2017) examines how YouTube is shaping learning today—offering new ways to inspire creativity while also raising challenges around media literacy and critical thinking. As video becomes a central tool in education, students need more than access. They need guidance to use and interpret video content responsibly. Educator and filmmaker Matthew Worwood shares insights on how schools can help students become critical viewers, ethical creators, and thoughtful participants in a media-rich world.

The conversation around Creativity has significantly expanded in recent years and become a popular topic in discussions centered on education reform. A significant amount of knowledge has been generated about creativity and how it can successfully be developed in school. Unfortunately, there are still many misunderstandings about what is creativity and how individuals can develop the skills needed to increase their chances of producing a creative outcome.

Project-Based Learning (PBL) is an instructional method that challenges students to collaborate in a team in order to solve a real world problem independent from the teacher. It has increased in popularity in recent years as part of the movement toward teaching 21st Century Skills and provides one of the best opportunities to cultivate creativity in our schools because its requires students to engage in a Creative Problem-Solving process.

E. Paul Torrance, perhaps one of the most prominent scholars of creativity, conducted a variety of studies exploring the teaching and learning of creativity. His studies identified specific characteristics associated with creative accomplishments, which he formulated into a creativity skill set. These behaviors were characterized into three elements, Ability, Skill, and Motivation, and helped form the foundation of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT).

A creativity crisis exists in the US! At least this is what was reported in a Newsweek article titled ‘The Creativity Crisis’. After reading the article, creACTIVITY co-founder Matthew Worwood produced his documentary, Creativity in Education: Exploring the Imbalance, which incorporated a number of points highlighted in the story.