...Creative Spark Talk Analysis: “How Schools Kill Creativity" by Ken Robinson Jeff Talley University of Phoenix PHL/458 May 20, 2015 Faculty Name: Sonya Walker Creative Spark Talk Analysis: “How Schools Kill Creativity" by Ken Robinson At the TED conference in February 2006, Ken Robinson argues that schools are only teaching education and not creativity, which the school system should be concentrating on. He feels the students of today are not taught so much in the arts and music area. There is only a strong focus in educating the students in the math, science and literacy areas. Robinson also goes on to say that the sad part about this is if a young student enjoys either or both of the arts and music area, they are told that those areas will never get them a job in their future. He feels that having creativity (music and the arts) in the educational curriculum is just as important as literacy, math and science and that educators should treat it the same as the core subjects. Students lose their creativity when they are told at a young age that they are wrong because they don’t ever want to make another mistake again. When a child is growing up they don't care that they are wrong. Now, when a child is told that they are doing something wrong they don't ever want to make another mistake ever again. This in turn will cause...
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...Creative Spark Talk Analysis PHL/458 October 6,2014 Creative Spark Talk Analysis To find ones creative spark, one must look beyond the possibilities of failure within yourself and your peers and do what makes you happy. There will always be a time that the creativity will not be readily available, and the creative thinker will be able to recognize this and not get frustrated, and just find a way to put that spark away for another time. After watching a few of the TED Talks videos on Creative Spark, the one that caught my interests the most was Elizabeth Gilbert: Your Elusive Creative Genius. The video was shot in February of 2009 in front of a live studio audience. Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of the popular bestselling book Eat, Pray Love. Throughout her speech she goes into detail about her creative thinking process, using explanations to why she thinks the way she does, and gives incredible stories about other creative thinkers in which she discovered and developed her creative thinking process through. There are many elements to this video that made me choose it over the others. Elizabeth is both funny and intelligent, she knows the way she thinks and could easily explain this to an audience in such a way that it inspires one to think like her. Key points There are specific points that she hits throughout the video. The first thing she goes into is that She is a highly successful bestselling author that everyone feels sorry for and tells...
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...Creative Spark Talk Analysis Creativity is defined as an act or product is uncommon and is useful to society, many of us have ideas that are sometimes different and innovative, but many of us don’t realize them and do not materialize them. “There are four stages in the creative process that are the preparation stage, incubation stage, illumination stage and finally the verification stage” (Creativity Portal, 2004). “The first step is the preparation stage where your idea is investigated, then comes the incubation stage that is when you start to think on your idea unconsciously, the third step is the illumination stage that you begin to put your idea together and finally comes the verification stage that is finally the point where your idea is accepted” (Creativity Portal, 2004). From all the videos in the TED channel the one that I found most interesting was the video “Taking Imagination Seriously” by Janet Echelman that was shoot in June 2011, she was inspired when her paints went missing, which forced her to look to an unorthodox new art material. Now she makes rising, flowing, building sized sculpture with a surprisingly geeky edge. She materialized her ideas by considering and using unorthodox methods and materials in order to make giant sculptures that now stand in many cities around the world. She first had an idea back in the late 90’s to make building size sculptures out fishing net, a material she saw useful in order to materialize her vision. The first sculpture...
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...Creative Spark Talk Analysis PHL/458 Creative Spark Talk Analysis The video I have chosen is titled “Everything is a remix” by Kirby Ferguson, who is also the speaker. The presentation takes place in the year 2012 at Edinburgh, Scotland. The premise is that all creative thinking is based on the work done by those who came before us. In Kirby Ferguson’s words “Everything is a remix”, meaning there is nothing new under the sun. Ferguson defines the steps involved in making a “remix” of a song as consisting of 1) copy, 2) transform and 3) combine. This consists of copying each part of the song, transforming each part into something “new” and then combining them back into something new but based on the song or songs from before. Ferguson goes on to say that these steps: 1) copy, 2) transform and 3) combine, are the basic elements of all creativity. He goes on to use Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie as examples of great songwriters borrowing from others to make something uniquely their own. According to Ferguson, something like 66% of Dylan’s melodies was borrowed from folk singers that came before him. The lyrics were, in most cases, his, which brings us to the legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie and his take on songwriting. Woody believed that it was perfectly acceptable to “borrow” a melody here and there as long as the lyrics were original. Folk singing is mostly about telling stories anyway and Guthrie realized there are only so many chord changes that you can go through...
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...Creative spark talk Analusis Rodrigo Botello PHL/458 April 23, 2015 DOUGLAS PETRIKAT TED known to many as Technology, Entertainment and design is a website that has videos that encourages new ideas and new ways of thinking to user. This website is nonprofit design to spread ideas by short and encouraging talks (TED, 2015) some of the greatest minds of our time such as leaders, Teachers and the greatest thinkers of our time have videos for viewing on this website. While browsing the website I came across a title names Taking Imagination Seriously that was recorded in June of 2011 by creator and Artist Janet Echelman. Janet Echelman is a true inspiration to all the view this video, she saw art in the form of fishnets and made her creations to life. She Mentions in the video that she herself never thought of herself as being an artist in her life. After she has been reject from 7 different art schools she began to paint ten years later on her own. One day she was offer a Fulbright in India where she had the opportunity to have an exhibition of her paintings. When she arrived in India to show off her art in her exhibition she ran into a slight dilemma, her paintings never arrived with her. While trying to come up with a solution to her problem, she stayed in a fishing village that was famous for sculptures. While observing the local she tried to create a bronze casting but realized that creating a sculpture out of bronze would be too costly and heavy to create. One...
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...Creative Spark Talk Analysis: Schools PHL 458 September 08, 2014 Mrs. LaTrisha McAloon Creative Spark Talk Analysis: Schools Kill Creativity Belief that public education standards are suppressing the creativeness of children, thus society as whole, is gaining wide spread acceptance. The pressure that students are under to achieve in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs leaves little time for commitment to creative programs such as music, theater, dance, film, and visual arts. Society today places more value on science and math, a holdover from the Industrial Revolution and manufacturing in the United States after World War II. Diminishing Creativity In his discussion at the Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED) Conference in Monterey, CA February 2006, author and educator Sir Ken Robinson presented the argument that “We have been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers.” (Robinson, 2006). Parents have been “indoctrinated” by the same education system that now strives to quell the creative spark in todyas new generation. The emphasis of STEM in the education process removes emphasis from creative programs. Children are turnover to the education system for seven to nine hours a day. Teachers don’t want a child to be a dancer, musician, or writer and push academic achievement in STEM classes as an extrinsic motivator. For example, Doing well in math and science will put on the path to a scholarship at a great school...
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...Creative Spark Talk Analysis PHL 458 August 26, 2014 Creative Spark Talk Analysis In the 2011 TED talks video, “Taking Imagination Seriously,” artist Janet Echelman speaks to a TED audience in Long Beach, California about taking imagination seriously. She relayed her experience about how she creatively came up with an unusual art material after some of her paints disappeared on Fulbright a trip to India. According to G. Walles, a forerunner in creativity theory (Jens, 2010), there are four stages of creativity: preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification. In the video, Janet illustrates some of the stages of creativity. After arriving in Mahabalipurma, India and discovering her paintings did not make it, Janet was forced to come up with a solution to her problem. Mahabalipurma is well known for their famous sculptures, and in an attempt to resolve the dilemma, Janet demonstrates illumination when she attempts to try bronze casting. However, after realizing that making large forms would be too heavy and expensive, she sought out a different approach. She came up with the idea of using fish nets as a new method to sculpture. The idea came to her while walking on the beach and seeing village fishermen bundle their nets into mounds of sand (Echelman, 2011). She collaborated with the fishermen to make her first sculpture titled “Wide Hips.” Janet utilizes preparation by studying craft traditions and collaborating with artists in Lithuania. She came up with the...
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...William Boyd Creative Spark Talk Analysis PHL/458 Instructor: Robert Dubose William Boyd Creative Spark Talk Analysis PHL/458 Robert Dubose Creative Spark Creativity is a subject that is very disputable amongst psychologists. Psychologists have argued on a definition for the word creativity for many years now. Regardless of what most psychologists chose to think now, most believe that it is a creative act no matter big or small that is unusual and most likely become very useful to society. The video I watched was by John Bohannon and dancers from the Black Label Movement. The name of the video is tilted “Dance vs. PowerPoint”, a modest proposal and was filmed at TEDxBrussels, which was also posted in November 2011. John explains in this video how one of his friends tried to tell him about a science experiment and just simply couldn’t. His friend finally explains what the experiment was about to John, and then he tells his friend that “Maybe next time if you had dancers to try to better explain it will be much easier. He then tells his friend that numerous scientists have started using dancers to describe many different scientific things simply because it is more sufficient. Dancing PHD is the group of scientists that have started using dancers to explain various things. He starts to explains why it would be more productive to use dancers and instead of PowerPoint presentations. John then gives an explanation on how it is a waste...
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...Creative Spark Talk Analysis Sonya Walls PHL 458 December 2014 Creative Spark Talk Analysis In the video, Elizabeth Gilbert, a 40-year old author, explains how she began her start in writing. This speech takes place in California, February 2009, in front of hundreds of people. There, Elizabeth digs deep into her past to convey to the audience “the elusive creative genius.” As a teenager, Elizabeth knew exactly what she wanted to do. Her dream was to become a professional writer and she felt determined to achieve her goal. Being looked at as a far-fetched idea, people would often ask her if she felt that it would be the right career for her. She would always respond with a yes but fear began to grow. She was afraid, but she still had a vision to be what she felt like was her calling. If she didn’t take a chance and try, she would never know if she could achieve it. She ignored everyone and began to pursue it anyway. As she began to research the “arts” what was revealed to her was simply shocking. According to Elizabeth, everyone that pursued the arts or were trying to pursue the arts were considered to be mentally unstable. To Elizabeth, this statement had to come from a source where creativity was not present. Elizabeth felt that people who pursued the arts were often misunderstood and their thought process was different from the average person. Elizabeth explained that Romans felt that their creativity came from an outside source, For example, if there was an...
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...Creative Spark Talk Analysis July 20th, 2013 For this assignment I chose to review Stefon Harris’ “There are no mistakes on the bandstand” TEDTalk. After review I found the concepts and narrative to be very applicable to the business realm as well as daily life. Stefon presented many different ideas and opinions to the process of creativity that are normally lost in typical creativity examples. From what I gathered, Stefon is a musician, a vibraphonist to be exact. While I am not familiar with what a vibraphonist is, I assume it focuses mainly on instruments such as the xylophone and similar instruments. Stefon is not who I would have expected as a guest on TEDTalks but his perspective is refreshing. I viewed Stefon’s on YouTube which showed the video to have been posted in December of 2011. This talk was very interesting because it used jazz music as the example to creating something organic and fresh. The driving point of the presentation was that perceived mistakes are commonly viewed as problems when in reality they should be not be seen as mistakes but as a shift in the mainstream thought process. Creativity comes in many forms so what one person sees as a mistake can instead be seen as a new way of continuing. Commonly, creativity is stifled due to perceived problems with the thought process and non-conformity is extinguished. We view these non-conformers as hiccups generally which eventually wears on a person’s creativity and ends when that person no longer wants...
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...Mail Order Objectives Deliver brand and product strategy/direction to internal customers setting out clear objectives and targets. Work closely with other business functions to help evaluate new ideas and initiatives across: * Customer Retention/Loyalty - Main catalogue strategy, leaflet/supplement, billings, promotions and e-com. * Customer Recruitment – Trial and test different channels, ‘new customer’ programme. * Product Strategy and Range Planning – historical analysis and future estimates. All the work undertaken is to support the profitability and integrity of the business. Marketing Support Developing marketing plans, seasonal campaigns and promotional calendars. * Publication analysis: KPI performance, segmentation, timing, offer, incentives (retained file, promotional, new customer mailings). * Develop briefs to buying & merchandising, marketing, call centres and the publications/creative team. * Develop strong promotional offers tailored to maintain a strong customer relationship. * Help produce and implement marketing campaigns and promotional plans, covering retention/loyalty and recruitment of customers. * Main book supported by targeted mailings – timings, product mix, customer segment, seasonal calendar. * Translate the marketing plans into phased demand for the business, which can be forecasted and monitored. * Help develop your customer retention, reactivation...
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...Audience Analysis CMNS Summer 2012 SMART Situation Message Audience Response Tools SMART Situation Message Audience Response Tools Focus on reader benefits The “you” view Six ways to create you-attitude 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Talk about reader, not yourself Refer to reader’s request or order Don’t talk about feelings Use you more often than I Use we when it includes reader In negative situations, avoid you Talk about the reader Lack you-attitude ◦ I negotiated an agreement with Apex Rent-a-Car that gives you a discount. ◦ We shipped your May 21 order today. Have you-attitude ◦ You now get a 20% discount when you rent a car from Apex. ◦ The three Birth Year coin sets you ordered will ship today and should reach you by June 6. Do refer to the reader’s concern Lacks you-attitude We shipped your order today. Has you-attitude ◦ The 500 red and gray sweatshirts you ordered were shipped today and will reach you early next week. ◦ Your P.O. 7823-N shipped on 11/04 and will arrive within five business days. Don’t talk about feelings Lacks you-attitude ◦ We are happy to give you a credit line of $2,000. ◦ You will be happy to learn that your reimbursement request has been approved. ◦ You now have a $2,000 credit line with VISA. ◦ Your reimbursement request has been approved. Has you-attitude Avoid you in negative situtions Lacks you-attitude Has you-attitude ◦ You failed to sign your flexible...
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...Research and analysis Research and analysis 2A: ARTICLE ANALYSIS In an organisation, managers lead people towards meeting its objectives. ‘The process of planning, organising, leading and controlling the effort of organisation members and of using all organisation resource to achieve stated organisational goals’ has been described as management. Managers has been a part of organisation from very early stage of its history. 1. In the article we are analysing, I believe the main argument is about if we actually need managers, especially in fields like engineering where workers want to spend their time designing and debugging, not communicating with bosses or supervising other workers’ progress. 2. Google, as stated in the article, has used data to determine whether managers are essential or not. They have used a small group and test data within the company. 3. By using data, they have examine this issue. Processing data which has been collected from people in google, they have tired come to a solution which has been called people analytics. 4. Managers has been a part of organisation from the beginning. This research clearly indicates that for success, we really need to keep with the basic while most of the organisations are looking for shiny new ideas. The model of Google is not unique to Google. It focuses on the basic and with every organisation and manager. Management is skill, not knowledge. The best cyclist becomes even better only by practicing...
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...Chengkai Zhang Professor: Michael Harper English 1C 21 May 2013 Critical Thinking Is Understanding “Which form of human thinking is preferable: knowledge or understanding?” In order to examine this question, a close look at the concepts of knowledge and understanding must take place. The first task is to define the two parts of thinking, both knowledge and understanding. In the simplest terms, knowledge is facts and understanding is meaning that is given to those facts. However, there is objectivity and subjectivity to consider in relation to both knowledge and understanding. First, knowledge can be considered more objective because it is raw facts, and not subject to a person’s interpretation of facts or what the knowledge “means.” This is because what the knowledge “means” will be different for different people. In other words, understanding is subjective because it is based on a person’s unique human emotions, opinions and judgments. This is how understanding is interpreted for the person, and how raw knowledge is turned into something more meaningful for the person who learns a new fact. It can be argued that understanding will always require some level of subjectivity. What this means is a fact can not be fully “understood” unless it is put through the filter of a person’s own experience. This is naturally a subjective process. However, without knowledge, understanding could not occur. It is clear that both types...
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...| Business Ethics | Individual Case 1 – The Lost Coupon | | | Table of Content I. Case Briefing 2 II. The Ethical Cycle 2 1.1 Moral Problem Statement 2 1.1.1. What is the problem? 2 1.1.2. Who has the problem? 2 1.1.3. What is the moral nature of the problem? 2 1.2 Problem Analysis 3 1.2.1. What are the stakeholders and their interests? 3 1.2.2. What are the moral values that are relevant in the situation? 3 1.2.3. State the relevant facts from the case, but also look for uncertain possible missing facts? 3 1.3 Options for Action 4 1.3.1. Black-and-white strategy 4 1.3.2. Creative middle way solutions 4 1.3.3. Cooperation strategy 4 1.3.4. Whistle blowing 4 III. Intuition 4 I. Case Briefing Joe and Ellen were in the elevator of the hotel which they invest in. In that elevator, there were also a group of three others and an individual. Joe, Ellen and the individual all overheard the group talked about how to play a scam on the hotel. The scam was planed based on a hotel policy, if one stays an additional night as a registered guest, one can receive an additional night coupon for half price; guests also can check in for one night only with half price, if they have a coupon from friend. This group of three was going to lie to the hotel, they had the coupon but they lost it. Afterwards, they all got front desk and waited in the line. The group was in the front, followed by Joe and...
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