Teaching Creativity - 0 views
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Most five year olds are totally confident that they can draw, sing, and dance. Tragically, within three or four years this child, if she is typical, will experience a crisis of confidence
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When allowed to do what we want to do, we are most likely to revert to whatever we previously found enjoyable and/or successful.
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In order to force a new idea to the surface, an artist might reverse the order of work, change the medium, change the scale, forbid a certain common component in the work, and so on. These are limitations to jog or jump start the creative impulse.
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people have developed problem solving habits that lack confidence in their own ability to bring any life experience or judgement to the situation.
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a society that values conformity above indiviual creativity and choice making probably should teach drawing as a series of prescribed symbols rather than teaching actual observation, thinking, feeling, and interpretation skills.
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True creativity happens when intuitive imagination brings forth the previously unknown and unimagined
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When we show an end product in order to help explain something, we risk that students will not be challenged to think creatively
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To teach process, we avoid posting charts that gives answer unless the students themselves have invented the charts.
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The scientific method says that questions must be answered experimentally and the results are repeatable.
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the scientific method takes more time in the short run, but if a student learns that they can design experiments to solve their own problems, they have learned not only the scientific method, they have learned one of the important components of artistic thinking and artistic behavior. Ultimately, time is saved because students have learned to figure out how to answer their own questions. They are empowered.