there is one crucial difference between IQ and CQ scores. With intelligence, there is a phenomenon called the Flynn effect—each generation, scores go up about 10 points. Enriched environments are making kids smarter. With creativity, a reverse trend has just been identified and is being reported for the first time here: American creativity scores are falling.
The Creativity Crisis - Newsweek - 48 views
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“Creativity can be taught,”
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it’s left to the luck of the draw who becomes creative: there’s no concerted effort to nurture the creativity of all children
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Students are labeled as "creative" if they display a knack for art or music, and sometimes in writing, however, they are rarely recognized as creative in math or science where a lot of creativity is not only needed, but excellent for learning within those very two disciplines.
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This is precisely why creativity education is important. It is needed everywhere, not just in the arts. Those teaching outside of arts education need to start recognizing the importance of creative thinking as well.
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Text to Text | 'The Giver' and 'The Dark Side of Young Adult Fiction' - NYTimes.com - 59 views
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ideas for connecting it to a larger discussion about the popularity of dystopian literature, as well as options for going further
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Key Questions: Why are dystopian novels so popular among young adults right now?
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What can dystopian fiction show or teach us that, perhaps, other kinds of stories cannot
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Project MUSE - Learning from Masters of Music Creativity: Shaping Compositional Experie... - 7 views
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n contrast to others who are not as prone to divulge their feelings about their creative process
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"Variation in style may have historical explanation but [End Page 94] no philosophical justification, for philosophy cannot discriminate between style and style."3
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The testimonies of the composers concerned bear on questions about (a) the role of the conscious and the unconscious in music creativity, (b) how the compositional process gets started, and (c) how the compositional process moves forward
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Music performance anxiety and occupational stress amongst opera chorus artists and thei... - 3 views
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There has been no study exploring the prevalence or characteristics of MPA among professional choral musicians, who may be considered a vocal analogue of orchestral musicians. There may be systematic differences among different types of musicians regarding the level of performance anxiety experienced.
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Chorus artists were ideal subjects for the proposed study because they are a clear exemplar of a group of musicians with high performance demands and expectations who have heavy rehearsal and performance schedules.
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While this study suggests that treatment efforts be directed at reducing MPA rather than occupational stress, further investigation of the relationship between occupational stress and trait anxiety is needed.
American Rhetoric: Martin Luther King, Jr. - I Have a Dream - 41 views
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capital to cash a check
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one hundred years later
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a promissory note
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How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results - WSJ - 17 views
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a shift from its founding philosophy of “organizing the world’s information,” to one that is far more active in deciding how that information should appear.
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Google keeps blacklists to remove certain sites or prevent others from surfacing in certain types of results. These moves are separate from those that block sites as required by U.S. or foreign law,
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Far from being autonomous computer programs oblivious to outside pressure, Google’s algorithms are subject to regular tinkering from executives and engineers who are trying to deliver relevant search results, while also pleasing a wide variety of powerful interests and driving its parent company’s more than $30 billion in annual profit.
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