Post by johnthompson on Aug 9, 2011 9:24:24 GMT -5
Creativity is not something we can teach in schools. It is a part of some one's personality. So when we experience a sudden drop in scores on Torrance’s test we must not blame the school system or the video games, we must blame the parents. Society has given us strict guidelines on how to operate in a social climate. One of these most important guidelines is to fit in. Unfortunately a lot of parents feel it is their job to help their children fit in with the other kids. How can someone be creative when they are told to be like everyone else? Our society needs originality. Not just for children, we need originality in everyday life. Take Congress for example. Our legislative branch of government is notorious for playing party politics and getting nothing done. When was the last time someone had a creative solution for bipartisanship? With creativity the limits of the physical world are endless. But if we continue to pressure our children, the future of this country, into believing different is wrong we are headed into major identification crisis. The crisis is that we don’t have an identity.
Our schools continue to plug kids into a system and tell them this is how to learn. This is incorrect. Students should be allowed to explore several avenues of learning, multiple different ways to process information. If we are teaching all the kids to learn the same there is no variation in answers. It is just silly for us to expect creativity in the classroom when a different answer is often called a wrong answer. Children are afraid to fail, afraid to be different, we must get the message across that the different answer isn’t always the wrong answer. Innovation could very well be human’s greatest resource and we are teaching kids to fall in line rather than embrace their imaginations and create.
“Enriched environments are making kids smarter. With creativity, a reverse trend has just been identified and is being reported for the first time here: American creativity scores are falling.” The world is getting smarter, but we are getting lazier. With the worlds information a couple of clicks away there is less pressure to find an answer. There is no need to come up with a creative process to find the solution when we can just type the problem into google. There seems to be no room for experiments anymore. Kids must have that urge to find the answer. When one is truly curious is when their creativity really shows. This study doesn’t suggest kids are dumber, IQ scores have constantly been rising, but it does suggest that the new acquired knowledge is being wasted in same situations over and over. This would not be such a large problem if we didn’t know the outcome, “Those who came up with more good ideas on Torrance’s tasks grew up to be entrepreneurs, inventors, college presidents, authors, doctors, diplomats, and software developers.” Creativity means success. We need to do whatever it takes to install creativity back in our society. Be different, be creative.
Our schools continue to plug kids into a system and tell them this is how to learn. This is incorrect. Students should be allowed to explore several avenues of learning, multiple different ways to process information. If we are teaching all the kids to learn the same there is no variation in answers. It is just silly for us to expect creativity in the classroom when a different answer is often called a wrong answer. Children are afraid to fail, afraid to be different, we must get the message across that the different answer isn’t always the wrong answer. Innovation could very well be human’s greatest resource and we are teaching kids to fall in line rather than embrace their imaginations and create.
“Enriched environments are making kids smarter. With creativity, a reverse trend has just been identified and is being reported for the first time here: American creativity scores are falling.” The world is getting smarter, but we are getting lazier. With the worlds information a couple of clicks away there is less pressure to find an answer. There is no need to come up with a creative process to find the solution when we can just type the problem into google. There seems to be no room for experiments anymore. Kids must have that urge to find the answer. When one is truly curious is when their creativity really shows. This study doesn’t suggest kids are dumber, IQ scores have constantly been rising, but it does suggest that the new acquired knowledge is being wasted in same situations over and over. This would not be such a large problem if we didn’t know the outcome, “Those who came up with more good ideas on Torrance’s tasks grew up to be entrepreneurs, inventors, college presidents, authors, doctors, diplomats, and software developers.” Creativity means success. We need to do whatever it takes to install creativity back in our society. Be different, be creative.