Post by matthewlogan on Aug 14, 2011 15:23:21 GMT -5
There is a major creativity crisis in America. People becoming dull and expect for others to do the thinking for them. It is becoming harder and harder for people to come up with their own ideas. Today’s children are very smart but have tremendous trouble developing their ideas. “With intelligence, there is a phenomenon called the Flynn effect—each generation, scores go up about 10 points. 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” (Bronson, page one). Even though people are getting smarter due to the access of more information, they are losing their creativity. Their increased intelligence is taking away from their creativity.
I will ask my little cousin to draw something cool and he will simply look up and say “I don’t know anything cool.” Most of the smartest people I know couldn’t draw a simple picture to save their life. Most of the new movies I see coming out all have the same premise, are a remake or are very simple. Nothing is really new. Especially with cell phones, the cell phones that are coming out all look very similar. When the iphone came out on the market it was revolutionary. Now as new iphones come out they don’t look or are very different. They have minor changes in shape and functions. Little creativity is going into new technologies.
“After analyzing almost 300,000 Torrance scores of children and adults. Kim found creativity scores had been steadily rising, just like IQ scores, until 1990. Since then, creativity scores have consistently inched downward. “It’s very clear, and the decrease is very significant,” Kim says. It is the scores of younger children in America—from kindergarten through sixth grade—for whom the decline is “most serious.”” (Kim, page one). I agree with this discovery. People nowadays are showing less and less creativity. Although the average IQ is higher than in the past, creativity is very important. Creativity can help answer a problem you do not know by using something relevant you have learned in the past. Your left hemisphere of the brain first attempts to solve the problem. If unable, it draws from the right side for assistance. If people begin to lose their creativity, task such as problem solving becomes more difficult. Art, dance, development of new objects and more decrease. Creativity is very important and is crucial to our society.
I will ask my little cousin to draw something cool and he will simply look up and say “I don’t know anything cool.” Most of the smartest people I know couldn’t draw a simple picture to save their life. Most of the new movies I see coming out all have the same premise, are a remake or are very simple. Nothing is really new. Especially with cell phones, the cell phones that are coming out all look very similar. When the iphone came out on the market it was revolutionary. Now as new iphones come out they don’t look or are very different. They have minor changes in shape and functions. Little creativity is going into new technologies.
“After analyzing almost 300,000 Torrance scores of children and adults. Kim found creativity scores had been steadily rising, just like IQ scores, until 1990. Since then, creativity scores have consistently inched downward. “It’s very clear, and the decrease is very significant,” Kim says. It is the scores of younger children in America—from kindergarten through sixth grade—for whom the decline is “most serious.”” (Kim, page one). I agree with this discovery. People nowadays are showing less and less creativity. Although the average IQ is higher than in the past, creativity is very important. Creativity can help answer a problem you do not know by using something relevant you have learned in the past. Your left hemisphere of the brain first attempts to solve the problem. If unable, it draws from the right side for assistance. If people begin to lose their creativity, task such as problem solving becomes more difficult. Art, dance, development of new objects and more decrease. Creativity is very important and is crucial to our society.