Developing Creative and Persuasive Skills through Games (High School Stream)

Workshop Summary:

This two half-day workshop is designed to develop the creative and persuasive skills of gifted students using a game-based approach. Students will learn about the theories of creativity & persuasion, and how they can be applied in their studies and daily life. A series of fun and challenging games will be introduced and analysed to challenge students to extend their creative and persuasive skills through the topics below:

Creativity:

• What is creativity and how can we become more creative?

• How do game designers come up with such creative ideas and what can we learn from that?

• How can we apply creativity in our academic studies and daily life?

Persuasive skills:

• How can we communicate complex ideas effectively to a general audience?

• How can we use presentation skills and rhetorical devices to enhance the persuasiveness of our speeches?

• How can we incorporate creativity to enhance our persuasion and make a lasting impact?

The workshop will be led by Ms Wong and Dr Kwok:

· Ms Wong is a high school English teacher in Sydney and a tutor and mentor for gifted students worldwide from countries including Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, and the UK. Ms Wong is the Gifted Education Advisor of Mensa NSW and graduated with a Masters Degree in Gifted Education from UNSW with excellence.

· Dr Kwok is both an experienced educator and a gifted individual himself. He has a Phd from UNSW, is a member of Mensa and achieved an ATAR equivalent of 99+.