Creativity

has a clue despite all the expertise, what the world will look like in five years time and yet we’re supposed to be educating them for it.” Former University professor, Ken Robinson, gave the speech “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” on TED Talk back in 2006, and he argues that “creativity is as important in education now as literacy and we should treat is with the same status.” Robinson begins building his credibility by stating personal examples and well-respected resources, by giving convincing…

Science World's use of creativity in their advertisements and the one-liners have really drawn me in. I have always been a fan of both creativity, as well as getting straight to the point -- Science World offers both of those things up to me with their advertisements alone. I find it fascinating that they have put such effort into their advertisements alone, seeing as a lot of the ads look as if they could be part of the museum itself! I think the marketing strategy they have taken on is pure…

In Oliver Sacks’ work, An Anthropologist on Mars, Sacks delves into the increasingly difficult task of defining creativity, ultimately illustrating that successful adaptation of the brain toward creativity depends on not only physical brain plasticity, but also the internal and external motivations of the victim, asserting that a creative mind holds the key for successful processing and acceptance of loss. Brain plasticity, as defined by the Society of Neuroscience, “refers to the extraordinary…

I express my creativity through singing. For as long as my family and I can remember, I have loved to sing. In elementary school, I was always the shy and quiet type, but when I went to choir practice after school, I felt like I really belonged somewhere. But as much as I love to sing, I wasn't always good at it. At choir practice, I always sang as loud as I could, sometimes to the dismay of my choir director. But over time, my pitch got better. I started taking voice lessons, and through…

2.2.0 Linking Leadership to Employee Creativity: A Study of Indian R&D Laboratories 2.2.1 Reference Gupta, V., Singh, S., Kumar, S., and Bhattacharya, A. (2012) ‘Linking Leadership to Employee Creativity: A Study of Indian R&D Laboratories’, The Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 120-136. 2.2.2 Research Question How do leader behaviors promote individual employee creativity? 2.2.3 Methodology The first part of the study was about in-depth interviews in five public R&D…

The one talk that interest me was orientated by Ken Robinson. The topic of the speech was “Do schools kill Creativity, which was filmed Feb 2006. To date there has been reports of 42 million plus views of this controversial topic. As a former educator of the Boys and Girls club after-school programs I often participated and facilitated co-education groups that focused around the creative education activities that sparked an interest in club members to better engaged them in their academics and…

In “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” Ken Robinson talks about how the current education system is killing the thought of creativity in the children. Robinson says that children back then weren’t afraid of being wrong or making mistakes. For example, he talks about a little kid who was in the “Nativity II” play with his son and how he changed the line of the play and wasn’t afraid. He later mentions that we “grow out or rather, we get educated out” (6:06) of creativity and the education system is…

We watch TED Talks (there are two in particular that are my favorite and if you have the time to watch them I highly recommend doing so: 1) Sir Ken Robinson’s Do Schools Kill Creativity? – it is by far the most watch TED Talk ever and helps to remind me that taking my sons creative interests and using them to educate him is by far the best thing I have done for his education. 2) Logan LaPlante’s Hackschooling Makes Me Happy –…

always be conflicting views on our history. Many have debated when our history actually starts. Was it with the arrival of the Europeans, or did it begin earlier? Dr. John Finger pondered this same question in his article, “Tennessee Indian History: Creativity and Power,” he also successfully answered this question. Our history begun with those Native Americans and how throughout all of the obstacles thrown their way, they managed to adapt and at times thrive. This is why the history of…

Books that I enjoyed reading are The Great Gatsby, The Help, The Lovely Bones, A Thousand Splendid Suns, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Outsiders. The reason why I loved reading these books because they are filled with adventure, creativity, adventure, and drama. When I read The Great Gatsby I enjoyed how the book took place in the 1920s, I loved how they used colors to symbolize emotions and themes. I also appreciated how Fitzgerald used Doctor T.J. Eckleburg eyes to show how a higher…