The Creativity Crisis - Newsweek - 0 views
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The correlation to lifetime creative accomplishment was more than three times stronger for childhood creativity than childhood IQ.
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Keith Hamon on 21 Sep 10Creativity is key to success in 21st Century, but are we creating opportunities for creativity in our classrooms?
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The European Union designated 2009 as the European Year of Creativity and Innovation, holding conferences on the neuroscience of creativity, financing teacher training, and instituting problem-based learning programs—curricula driven by real-world inquiry—for both children and adults. In China there has been widespread education reform to extinguish the drill-and-kill teaching style. Instead, Chinese schools are also adopting a problem-based learning approach.
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Problem-based learning matches QEP's emphasis on moving content-delivery out of the classroom to replace it with classroom activities that apply the content to problem solving and critical thinking.
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The creative problem-solving program has the highest success in increasing children’s creativity
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Creative problem-solving? Is creativity a part of critical thinking? What's the benefit in separating them?
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What's shocking is how incredibly well Torrance's creativity index predicted those kids' creative accomplishments as adults. Those who came up with more good ideas on Torrance's tasks grew up to be entrepreneurs, inventors, college presidents, authors, doctors, diplomats, and software developers. Jonathan Plucker of Indiana University recently reanalyzed Torrance's data. The correlation to lifetime creative accomplishment was more than three times stronger for childhood creativity than childhood IQ.