Post by bowmanblake on Aug 9, 2011 20:28:58 GMT -5
The Creativity Crisis was a very interesting article and I agree with the article that the creativity levels in children are on the decline. I believe children are becoming less creative because they have video games to stimulate there minds, rather than using there own imagination they become immersed in an already created zone, if you will. For instance kids today are playing mostly on-line games where they can play and communicate with other people in a world created by software producers filling the spot where a child's imagination should take root. Instead of running outside with a blanket tied around there shoulders and pretending to be a super hero's and fight bad guys most kids spent hours in there room killing Zombies on the Xbox. Sure theres imagination and creativity within the game but none of it is the child's own. When I was a kid I pretended to be a T-Rex and stomp around the house with my arms pulled into my shirtsleeves. Because as a child i was fascinated with dinosaurs. Then the Lost World came out and i became even more fascinated with them. After the movie came out and became a box office hit, Gaming company's such as Sony, who makes Play station, came out with the Lost World video game for the Play station 1. I begged my parents to get me that game and once they did it put an abrupt end to me stomping around the house as a T-Rex eating everything in sight, instead I sat in front of a Television screen and played as an actual dinosaur. Effectively halting my own creativity and imagination and letting me give way and live in the already created world. The Creativity Crisis addresses an possible solution to improving the declining rates of creativity. Which is Problem Based Learning, which forces kids to come up with unique ways to solve a problem since there can be no wrong answer. This should be enough to boost the declining rates if everybody adopts this teaching method. however one question remains in my mind. If video games are indeed one of the main causes of the "Creativity Crisis" What can we do to correct it?