...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! We have all heard...
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...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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...School Kills Creativity Derrick Bryant HUM/144 September, 25 2012 Shari Bevans School Kills Creativity I thought Sir Ken Robinson makes an interesting point concerning America’s education system. He is right about high school they do not understand creative kids. Most kids that are hyper active we need to just find out what their creative interest are. He also talks about how our school system could be weakening our kids’ minds. Schools are geared towards educating our kids towards being professionals in a particular field. Some of the strengths he talked about concerning Americas school system is that teacher are not understanding the creativity of our kids. For example if a child is disruptive in class. The teacher may think that he or she is not well discipline. His suggestion is that these kids may have creative ideas that need to be express. I believe what he is talking about is kind of true. All kids are different in terms of how they learn. A lot of it comes from the way their parents teach them. Kids may creative, but that has to be nurtured by their parents and in school. He talked about a young lady who had some attention problems and how her parents found out that she was a dancer. That is not the case for all children, because all parents can afford to send their kids to other creative schools. In my conclusion what Sir Robinson talks about is not the best solution for all kids. What I see in my culture kids trying to raise kids or grandparents raising...
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...How Schools Kill Creativity Eric Godinez PHL/458 27 October 2014 Cyndi Bills How Schools Kill Creativity For this paper I chose talk “How Schools Kill Creativity” by Sir Ken Robinson. The talk takes place in Monterey, CA February22-25, 2006 and the conference was named “The Future We Will Create”. And rightly so with many of the speakers being futurists and many of the talks held emphasized future developments in various fields. Sir Ken Robinson is a British author, speaker, and international advisor on education in the arts. I had seen this talk on TED a few years ago and it really struck a chord with me. I had not seen it I quite some time and so when I saw it again it had the same effect on me as the first time I saw it. I found the talk to be not only enlightening but funny and upbeat. Sir Ken Robinson has excellent public speaking skills and a fantastic wit. During his talk he brings up several points about education and the current system. The Importance of Creativity To begin his talk Sir Ken Robinson states that children have a great capacity for innovation. I can certainly relate to this being a father of two girls and stepson. They all have their unique gifts and talents. My stepson is whiz when it comes to math he is only nine years old, my twelve year old daughter love to play cello, and my five year old daughter loves to sing and dance. I once was waiting in a very long line and she started to sing a song I had never heard before. It appeared...
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...Creative Spark PHL/458 For this assignment, I chose Sir Ken Robinson’s video talk about how schools kill the creativity of the children they teach. In his roughly 20 minute speech in Monterey California, in February 2006, he took center stage to deliver a humorous monologue on the spark of creativity. He pointed out that it was his belief that everyone has an interest in education, and it runs deep within us as a society, because it drives the way our culture performs. His speech points out that education is the catalyst that is preparing us for the future, and that right now no one knows what the future will hold for us. In 20 years or even five, we are unable to predict with any certainty what the world will require of its population, because we don’t know what the future holds and how do we educate for it? No matter where you travel in the world today the education systems are set up in the same general order of importance.Math, Science, Language, and Humanities always are at the top of the education list, with creative activities such as Arts, Dancing, and Theater at the bottom. In his speech, he spoke of the education system of today being antiquated to the developments over the last 50 years. The current system which has been developed in the 19th century to accommodate the educational needs of industrial growth, has since lost its edge. In today’s world, with its growing population and advanced development,a creative and innovative ideas to continue forging ahead for...
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...Who Killed Creativity? When people hear the word creative there is an automatic assumption that creativity is completely linked to art. Based on this idea, many people with skills or interests that are not directly related to art usually say they are not creative. That is not entirely true. The ability to be creative is in each of us because creativity is not always related to the arts. Creativity is the ability to find new ways and new solutions to the same circumstances. Since we are children, we are curious beings by nature. We were born creative, imaginative, and with original ideas. Unfortunately, as we grow up, we lose that wonderful gift with which we are born. Why? Because education and creativity goes hand in hand. The education system kills the creativity of people...
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...Record: 1 Title: HOW TO KILL CREATIVITY. (cover story) Authors: Amabile, Teresa M.1,2 Source: Harvard Business Review; Sep/Oct98, Vol. 76 Issue 5, p76-87, 11p, 1 diagram, 3 color Document Type: Article Subject Terms: *CREATIVE ability in business *MANAGEMENT styles *BUSINESS planning *MANAGEMENT science *EMPLOYEE motivation *PSYCHOLOGY, Industrial *INCENTIVES in industry *WORK environment *QUALITY of work life *SUPERVISION of employees Abstract: The article addresses the topic of business creativity, its benefits, and how managers can inspire it. The author's research shows that it is possible to develop the best of both worlds: organizations in which business imperatives are attended to and creativity flourishes. The author observes that creativity is a function of three components: expertise, creative-thinking skills, and motivation. She believes managers can influence these components through workplace practices and conditions. The author sees managerial practices affecting creativity as falling into six general categories: challenge, freedom, resources, work-group features, supervisor encouragement, and organization support. INSET: The creativity maze. Author Affiliations: 1M.B.A. Class of 1954 Professor Business Administration, Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts 2Senior Associate Dean for Research, Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts Full Text Word Count: 6833 ISSN: 0017-8012 Accession Number: 1048966 Persistent link to...
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...As a senior at a small school I understand how hard it can be to freely express yourself. There isn’t a variety of culture, and there isn’t a very diverse group of students. A small town of 875 people and a small school of about 215.Fragment Rumors and opinions make their rounds through the students, then the teachers, and sometimes even the towns people: almost as fast as a wild fire hits a dry prairie. As you grow up you realize how much harder it is to express yourself because you feel there is always a magnifying glass above your head with a million people looking through the small little glass. You want to express yourself, but you feel no matter who you are around there is always disapproving eyes with that same magnifying glass....
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...Creativity, education, and play all have similar aspects when it comes to the world of the arts. Creativity is another another word for being different. Without taking a chance at something you cannot be creative. Playing and education both coincide with one another in great ways, but a lot of educators neglect this great act in trying to get children to learn. A few passages in the articles particularly resonated with me. One concept that interested me was an idea McCaslin suggested in his article “Play” about play and how it is a continuing way of learning. She said, “The impulse to play, if encouraged, can become a continuing way of learning, a medium of expression, and eventually an art form.”(Play/McCaslin pg. 43) In other words McCaslin is trying to say that play brings people together and allows them to open their mind in a different way. Educators in todays education system neglect the fact that play allows students to be more comfortable with one another as well as allowing them to do it on their own. Kids take playing games more serious than anything else they will do associated with school so why not integrate that into their lessons. In the aspect of play eventually being an art form, that statement is completely true. Playing is great for children as well as well as adults to actors. Playing is something actors do on a daily basis that allows them to be free and creative. Performing on stage can be considered play especially when it involves improv because that...
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...Inspiring Creativity in Next Generation “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while." ~ Steve Jobs As believed by late Sir Steve jobs creativity is just connecting things. If we are persuaded to believe the nuance it seems an uphill task to inspire the youth to be creative because connecting things requires endurance and persistence that appear to be missing in generation-Y owing to lack of wariness and lack of endurance to stay with one thing for a considerable long time. The question is how to keep them going with interest and passion. In fact the present youth does have passion but to reach to the top in a stipulated period of time may invite concomitant difficulties adversely affecting the creativity. Creativity relates to originality in thought while connecting things happening or probable of happening. Newton could connect things and thoughts to propound new theories. Actually all the things and thoughts were there. He only connected these with his creativity. A great musician composes by connecting a chain of unseen thoughts and things which becomes original. In every walk of life there is need for creativity. ‘Lateral Thinking’ introduced by Edward de Bono advocates for such creative thinking. In working scenario creativity in Marketing, creativity in Production, creativity in handling HR, and creativity...
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...School Kills My Cereal Ken Robinson, an educationalist, sums up the issues of the current education system in a very nice way by saying that the most useful subjects for work are at the top of the hierarchy in education. This means that probably the biggest part of education system is there to prepare you for a job. The job however, is a job that will let you earn your life in a very basic sense. It is understood as some kind of a security, a buffer that is provided by your education so that you have something you can use, even if it is not something you are passionate about. This gives me the impression that the education system prepares you for “survival” or for being a “worker” as we have discussed in the class. This is not really ideal in a world where almost our entire knowledge can be changed by a new invention or discovery at any given minute. Creativity, exploration, discovery, invention are the things that move us forward. Repeating the same thing over and over again does not get us anywhere. Most jobs are however still algorithmic and require certain skills instead of interdisciplinary education or creative ideas. How is one to pursue creativity as a cashier who is repeating the same process all the time? Since, as Robinson puts it forth, education system is based on preparing you for the current environment, the change can only radically come from the work environment. As jobs and work environment require more and more creative and diversely talented people, and...
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...this Creativity course, I have learned a lot about my level of creativity and how to improve my creativity skills. The books that we read, the videos that we watched, and the assignments we did were a great exercise to practice my creativity. I know that I am a lot more experienced and feel more advanced in my creativity than before I took this class. I am more confortable about expressing my creativity side that I did not know that I had. One of the tools that helped me the most was the reading. I have learned a lot from the book The Giant Hairball. I never thought that I would have learned what I did from the book. I definitely judged a book by its cover and was completely surprised. What I learned most in this book was about creativity in the workplace and the ability to make anything an adventure inside or outside of work. I would look up to any manager who managed like MacKenzie. He was really good at encouraging other people and inspiring others to bring out their creative side. He inspired me to be supportive and encouraging to others that I work with. Eventually when I have a management position where I manage others, I want to be looked up to the way that I would look up to MacKenzie. I want them to have faith in me to be able to rely on my judgment when they need help coming up with ideas or need pointers on making decisions. The videos that we watched, including John Cleese on Creativity, The Deep Dive, and Sir Ken Robinson’s: Do Schools Kill Creativity, I feel...
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...Dead poets society-essay At the end of the novel Dead Poets Society, Neil who has been very actively involved in the Dead Poets Society kills himself. Neil Perry was though a very confident and popular student who thrived at school, which his collection of achievement pens represents. He was also well liked by both his peers and teachers and was a natural leader. Inspired by his passionate English teacher, Mr. Keating, he reestablishes the Dead Poets Society. This shows that he was prepared to challenge authority. He does this when going behind his controlling father’s back and auditions for the schools musical. It ends in a complete disaster and his dad catches him. As a result, Neil commits suicide at the end. Some might accuse Neil’s father who denied his son the chance of living his dream. That he was too harsh and mean. I on the other hand think this is a huge misunderstanding. I think that like many parents Mr. Perry wanted what was best for his son, which led to extremely high expectations. Where as Neil wanted to explore who he was and what he wanted to do. The huge expectation could defiantly have played in as a factor for Neil’s decision to kill himself. Neil probably also saw this as more as an act of a tyrant, and not as tough love. But the biggest factor was probably Mr. Perry’s need to control his son’s entire life. And Neil probably saw suicide as the only way to escape his father’s grasp. Which is why I think Mr. Perry caused his son’s death. Others...
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...The “Cage” of reality The “Cage” of reality George Downey Excelsior College Abstract A paper on the how the videos by Sir Ken Robinson relate to the subject of creativity how creativity is stifled by the education system in the United States. I will offer some suggestions of how we can offer some changes to the current system and the benefits and potential costs if we do not. The “Cage” of reality How often in the auspices of teaching young children do we hold something up for them to see and ask “What is this?” If they have never seen the object before we may get a myriad of answers as they probe their minds for an answer, and then after a while we tell them what the name of the object is. For most adults, however, if the same question was posed to them under the same conditions they would probably answer “I don’t know.” Children minds are free, and they have a natural tendency to want to explore the world and learn new things. They often have imaginary friends and play pretend with others of their age group. Imagination is the beginning of creativity. According to Sir Ken Robinson in one of his videos on YouTube creativity is the practical application of new ideas to solving current or future problems. Robinson, K—Defining Creativity. YouTube website. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtnRaa7AgLs The world as we know it is constantly changing, some for the better and some for the worse, but these are subjective judgments. The only constant in life...
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...entrepreneur. However, I’m a big risk taker, and I’m very ambitious. Which are two of the biggest traits to be an successful entrepreneur. The reason why I like to take risk is not because I like to feel unpredictable; It is because, I believe taking calculated risks ,especially big calculated risks can increase your chance for your biggest profit. 2. My favorite entrepreneurs are Howard Schultz and Sam Walton. Both entrepreneurs are classical entrepreneurs, which they seek economics profit as the number goal in their business. Howard Schultz, he is creative, optimistic and excelling. His creativity led to the creation of more than 8000 different combination of Starbucks drink and machine that helped to save millions of dollars in his company. His creative design of Starbuck’s menu, space in the shop, store napkins to coffee bags, shows how deep he utilize every small creativity to create an extraordinary brand. His optimistic to sell coffee started a revolution within the coffee industry. He is able to create a personalize customer experience, secure customer loyalty energize his employee all at the same time. These traits constantly prove that Howard’s philosophy of selling is more excelling than customer expectations...
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