Watching Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk and reading the article, "The Creativity Crisis" affected my thoughts on creativity. Sir Ken Robinson and the Newsweekly article brought up many topics that I have never really thought about. Both, the TED talk and the article were very interesting. I really liked the story that Sir Ken Robinson shared about the little girl being a dancer. In my opinion, the creativity in the world is being "murdered" mainly because schools are teaching with less creativity.
I definitely agree that creativity is being lost in schools (and at home) and soon people wont even know what creativity is. This is because schools and teachers say that there is no time in the schedules for creativity. I have experienced because in school, all projects that we do have very strict guidelines that we have to follow. I don't want to get a bad grade so I have to follow the rubric. Even though many of my teachers encourage creativity, they grade about 5% based on creativity and that is not very much, but because there are a lot of guidelines, it is almost impossible to be creative and everyone in the class comes up with the same ideas. In addition, grades discourage creativity in the classroom a lot because people worry on getting bad grades because of strict policies.
In the future, I worry that people wont even know the meaning of creativity. Also, that people will only use the left side of the brain and not the right side very much. (Left side of brain=words, logic, black and white, etc.) (Right side of brain=colors, music, dance, etc.) The future is very important and the future usually reflects the past. For example, in my parents generation, schools didn't encourage creativity at all and actually discouraged it. Whenever I ask my mom for help with projects, she wants everything to be completely neat and she gets mad at me when I add extra color to the project. That generation reflected on me because my teachers are from the same generation and even if they tell us to color something for homework, there will be a lot of moaning because we don't really like to be creative. However, if the teacher tells us to do something like coloring, many people mistake it for being creative, but it is really not because they tell us exactly how it's supposed to be. Even know, many people are starting to forget the meaning of being creative so that will definitely reflect on future generations.
There was one quote in the Newsweekly article about how Chinese schools are quickly racing towards the American curriculum system while American students are trying to add creativity as part of the daily basis. “They just started laughing out loud'... 'You’re racing toward our old model. But we’re racing toward your model, as fast as we can.' " This is an amazing example to show that schools don't really care about children creativity.
Lastly, "The Creativity Crisis" and Sir Ken Robinson brought up a topic that is about teaching and learning creativity. They said that a person can learn creativity if it is taught properly to them. I partially disagree with this because I think a person can learn creativity, but no one can really teach it to them. This is because if someone teaches another person how to be creative, the person learning is really just "copying" the ideas of the teacher. The learner will just start thinking like the teacher and that is not being creative. Someone can learn how to be creative if they try hard and think for themselves and don't just act like another person that they are not.
These two things on creativity made me learn to think a lot and they were both very, very interesting. In short, I think schools really are killing creativity and they don't really think about what the kids need to learn without heating up.
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