Post by gracefons on Aug 9, 2011 22:24:03 GMT -5
When I was in kindergarten I went to Montessori in Danville. One day I found a caterpillar that I wanted to make my pet. The caterpillar ended up dying before recess let out so to carry it, because I didn't have any pockets, I put the dead caterpillar in my sock and buried it after kindergarten. When my mom picked me up from Montessori to take me to day care, I told her what had happened and why my sock was dirty. When we got to my day care, she made me tell the director, Ms. Sherri, the same story of why my sock was dirty as well. Ms. Sherri told me not to worry and that my pet caterpillar had probably gone up to caterpillar heaven. I responded by telling her that ,"that was probably about right here for the caterpillar." and I pointed at my knee while doing so. That is somewhat of a low example of my creativity as a child, but it is creativity nonetheless. I don't know if there is such a thing as caterpillar heaven, or if I'm the only kid who's ever thought of one, or let alone pointing out its general height, direction, and location.
In Newsweek's article, "The Creativity Crisis", Kyung Hee Kim from the College of William And Mary says, "It is the scores of younger children in America—from kindergarten through sixth grade—for whom the decline is “'most serious.'” Kyung Hee Kim is referring to the Torrance test scores for creativity. When technology and screens were having their hay day and making it big (even though this is still happening currently), I remember starting to get bored with "being creative." When I would tell my mother I was bored she would reply by telling me I should never be bored with a mind and imagination like mine and I responded by telling her I did not have an imagination. I had thoroughly convinced myself that I did not have a good imagination and was therefore doomed. But the thing that ties this together with the article and makes things pertinent is that it was roughly that age of kindergarten through sixth grade when I found this out about myself. Whether I was right or just stubborn is more of the question. But I agree with the article, "The Creativity Crisis" in that children are losing their creativity and just getting absorbed in the world's latest media.
"The Creativity Crisis" also makes it plainly more of a crisis by stating that the IBM polls of 1,500 CEO's identified creativity as being the "No. 1 '“leadership competency'” of the future." Thus saying that without creativity, businesses will struggle and have a hard time prevailing without constantly coming out with new ideas that today's people will be interested in. Not only a business and economic level, but kids depend on their creativity and imagination to get them through the day. That's why so many kids had imaginary friends growing up, either that or pet caterpillars.
In Newsweek's article, "The Creativity Crisis", Kyung Hee Kim from the College of William And Mary says, "It is the scores of younger children in America—from kindergarten through sixth grade—for whom the decline is “'most serious.'” Kyung Hee Kim is referring to the Torrance test scores for creativity. When technology and screens were having their hay day and making it big (even though this is still happening currently), I remember starting to get bored with "being creative." When I would tell my mother I was bored she would reply by telling me I should never be bored with a mind and imagination like mine and I responded by telling her I did not have an imagination. I had thoroughly convinced myself that I did not have a good imagination and was therefore doomed. But the thing that ties this together with the article and makes things pertinent is that it was roughly that age of kindergarten through sixth grade when I found this out about myself. Whether I was right or just stubborn is more of the question. But I agree with the article, "The Creativity Crisis" in that children are losing their creativity and just getting absorbed in the world's latest media.
"The Creativity Crisis" also makes it plainly more of a crisis by stating that the IBM polls of 1,500 CEO's identified creativity as being the "No. 1 '“leadership competency'” of the future." Thus saying that without creativity, businesses will struggle and have a hard time prevailing without constantly coming out with new ideas that today's people will be interested in. Not only a business and economic level, but kids depend on their creativity and imagination to get them through the day. That's why so many kids had imaginary friends growing up, either that or pet caterpillars.