For anyone who has followed my blog, you all know how much I want this game and how much I've been blogging about it, it's even gone in my blog's signature.
So... 14 days to go.
Before I get too serious have a vid,
KINGDOM HEARTS DOES DBZ - HotPinkMidNite
Ok, back to getting on with it.
Creativity...
Creativity is a rather broad subject and I find that everytime I start on research I get so far before I find something interesting and go off on completely the wrong angle.
Is this a creative way of researching or am I just procrastinating? Even I don't know.
Creativity covered a lot of things, music, art, writting, games, modelling, photography and it's even in there with numbers and science wouldn't get anywhere if people didn't try new things.
Where would we be without the wheel?
The fact of the matter is that it comes from the root creatus, which in latin means to have grown, and I really do think that creativity has been expanded to the point where it is hard to pin down.
I have a fun thing to do, go to this site, http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=creativity&fr=yfp-t-501&ei=UTF-8&rd=r1, and have a look at some of the things here.
It is a fudgeing long list, with all sorts, from the wikipedia page on Creativity, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativityto a shop in Sheringham called Creativity. http://www.creativity-sheringham.co.uk/.
This one looked good, http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content2/Creativity_in_kids.html, so I think, since I'm planning a countdown, I'll choose to talk about this one today.
The term "gifted" is often used to imply high intelligence. I would say that I have to agree, thinking back to the gifted and talented program back in my Senior School, which started in my year nine or ten, where those of us with a chance of doing something with thier lives (Sorry. Not...) were taken out of school and shown around universities, mostly the local ones that us going to had benifits for our school, but it was still interesting to see what a University Campus was like and talk to some of the students to see what Uni life is like.
If I remember rightly, the 'Gifted' students were those with high grades in Maths, English, Science, French and all the acedmic subjects, while the 'Talented' ones were the ones who were skilled in the non-acedemic subjects like Music, Art and Drama.
The first time we had a meeting we were given little stickers that were either yellow, red or both. Red for Gifted, Yellow for Talented or both for, well, both.
Being a red sticker girl myself, I found a distrubing amount of red stickers had no real head for anything remotly creative, prefering either to stick thier noses in books, or go out and play football (I suppose football is creative but most of the time they put that creativity into creative ways to dive, which was incredibly annoying), and as such I spent a great deal of my time on trips with yellow sticker people, just because most of my friends were in that group and they had more interesting things to talk about...
Oh Ra, I'm getting distracted again.
Anyway so, I agree with the website on this point.
It's not a long report and I happen to agree with most of what they are saying, including the 'right answer fixation' thing. From a young age you can't be creative with answers because the teachers expect the right answer every time and get angry if you get it wrong.
This is all because of the rediculously early age that tests start, meaning that for a school to do well , they have to be turning out right answer monkeys without a thought of creativite answering in thier head.
This is reinforced by the amount of testing that children of forced into, has everyone heard of the SATs they give at the end of Infant School? I jest you not. That is how bad the school system has gotten.
Ranting. calm... calm... get one with work...
Anyway, I like their list of things that adult can do at home to increase creativity, since creativity is all but squished out of children at school.
Infants is bad, Junior School is worse because they have SATs at the end of year six and most of thier art lessons (or at least in the school I came from) are overly structured and not really creative. Senior School/High School is probably the worst though seeing as they teach you creative subjects, but unless you have a good teacher (Thank you Mr Hulbert), you want to tear your hair out by the end of year eleven.
So a list like this is helpful,
How Can Adults Encourage Creativity?
Provide an environment that allows the child to explore and play without undue restraints.
Adapt to children's ideas rather than trying to structure the child's ideas to fit the adult's.
Accept unusual ideas from children by suspending judgement of children's divergent problem-solving.
Use creative problem-solving in all parts of the curriculum. Use the problems that naturally occur in everyday life.
Allow time for the child to explore all possibilities, moving from popular to more original ideas.
Emphasize process rather than product.
Am I the only one who sees that these could be used in the education system to great effect?
Anyway, for now, this will do.
An epic blog to kick off my Countdown to Battle.
Joey
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