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In Everything is a Remix, Kirby Ferguson points out that creativity is often seen as a spark that comes quickly and spontaneous to the genius. He instead points out that creativity is borrowed from our past experiences and that inspiration comes in various forms.
What Value is there in Creativity?
One of the recent concepts that I have latched onto is teaching for the 21st century and focusing on the 5C's: creativity, critical thinking, communication, cooperation and community. These concepts seem to answer all sorts of problems that I began to see with the education system. If we take on Ferguson's view that creativity is not magic and that nothing is truly new, but rather borrowed and remixed from endless sources then what value can we actually place on creativity?
As teachers, we often have creativity as a rubric category in our success criteria. Is this truly fair? Perhaps we should look at capability or capacity (sticking with the C theme) of students' ability to work with, reimagine and rework the information they have been given and/or can find. The ease with which people can get a vast amount of information is mind boggling. You can now even tap a Bluetooth combadge and connect to your smart phone to get answers via a web search. Our ability to truly create something "NEW" seems even further and further from possible. Celebrating the capacity to accomplish the given goal may thus be more important that putting value on creativity or "newness"
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AuthorI am a teacher in Halton and have spent 12 years dedicated to learning about and working with students who have special learning needs. I have been teaching since 2005. I have 4 kids (2 + 2 step), I play bagpipes, ride a motorcycle and love being outdoors. Archives
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