Comments on: The Creativity Deficit http://www.politicolor.com/2010/07/the-creativity-deficit/ The Color of Political Theory Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:46:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: stepwinder http://www.politicolor.com/2010/07/the-creativity-deficit/comment-page-1/#comment-1104 stepwinder Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:58:51 +0000 http://www.politicolor.com/?p=796#comment-1104 I have to tell you this helped our discussion at the Academy too. I had used a quote from Nick Carr's "Is Google Making Us Stupid," and the discussion quickly turned to how smart (or not) we are... the next generation especially. What I appreciated a good deal about this article is that it focused on what we're doing with what we know. How we're using it... not just what facts (or what kind) we're piling up in our heads or in the clouds. That's a reference to cloud computing there, Hexx. Don't want to confuse the luddite brain. :D I have to tell you this helped our discussion at the Academy too. I had used a quote from Nick Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” and the discussion quickly turned to how smart (or not) we are… the next generation especially. What I appreciated a good deal about this article is that it focused on what we’re doing with what we know. How we’re using it… not just what facts (or what kind) we’re piling up in our heads or in the clouds.

That’s a reference to cloud computing there, Hexx. Don’t want to confuse the luddite brain.
:D

]]> By: hobbes21 http://www.politicolor.com/2010/07/the-creativity-deficit/comment-page-1/#comment-1101 hobbes21 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:07:22 +0000 http://www.politicolor.com/?p=796#comment-1101 Hexxus007, This article is terrific. It expands upon the argument I've had to make with greater frequency. I teach in a private school with parents increasingly bent on a facts and figures approach, at younger and younger ages. I thought it remarkable when the Chinese educators noted that they were moving toward our old (creative) model, while we were moving toward their old (rote) model. I couldn't agree more. I see it with the parents of 3-year olds who wish for homework; I see it with the movement toward Kumon and other outside drills. This, in a Montessori school! I plan to address this in our parent meetings this year. I will use the article to help. Thanks! Hobbes21 Hexxus007,

This article is terrific. It expands upon the argument I’ve had to make with greater frequency. I teach in a private school with parents increasingly bent on a facts and figures approach, at younger and younger ages. I thought it remarkable when the Chinese educators noted that they were moving toward our old (creative) model, while we were moving toward their old (rote) model. I couldn’t agree more. I see it with the parents of 3-year olds who wish for homework; I see it with the movement toward Kumon and other outside drills. This, in a Montessori school! I plan to address this in our parent meetings this year. I will use the article to help.

Thanks!
Hobbes21

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