View the two short videos (Do Schools Kill Creativity? and What Motivates Us?) we watched and discussed in class, and post your reflective and thoughtful comments in the Comments section. Please proof and edit your responses, and be aware that I need to approve your blog comments before they are posted on the website. Dig deep and "show" your thinking through your writing. I am looking for "quality" not "quantity" in your responses.
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Patryk Sienko ATL 1
10/9/2015 02:39:41 pm
I do believe that schools do kill creativity. The videos are conveying a message saying that we should be able to stand up to ourselves and use our skills that we have to create good work and be successful. As in the second video it is said we need autonomy, mastery and purpose to get to where ever we want to get to. In the first video it says we lose creativity through the forcing of education. This means we won’t be able to learn and be any creative if we are being punched on by the rules and forced by our teachers. The man in the first video says we are more likely to do something if we won’t be forced upon our heads. That way we can interact with our education better if we are in a more calmer and better environment. It is also said that through creativity we can achieve purpose and through purpose we can reach mastery. With these steps being individual and learning on our own way; and not kill our own creativity, we need to be self-assessed and be individual and learn the way we want so we can be creative and have a purpose.For a long time we were pressured like this and when were on our own it's better.
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David B ATL I
10/9/2015 02:41:17 pm
Do schools kill creativity?
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Nick K. ATL 1
10/11/2015 09:30:29 am
I agree with what both videos we're talking about. I agree that people work their best when they work the way they want to. If there are too many rules, people won't want to work or even go to work. I also agree that school does kill creativity. Schools are making it seem like it's bad to wrong and that is killing our creativity. Being creative will lead to wrong answers but will later help you out in life
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Damian A, Atl 1
10/11/2015 06:55:14 pm
This video show us that we have to know our skills and to apply to our daily work but it is not as good as we think we are. We work the best way in having good time and enjoying work. More ideas and more work came from workers who were freed into their job making it more fit for them. Making people want to come to job letting them go on with their ideas and making them share them the way they want. So it show that if we want our business to work at its finest you have to let people do their job they way they want. By getting out of there way they feel their appeturnity to show what he came up by himself from his own ideas that he got to work on it by his way of style.
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Damian A,Atl 1 Do schools kill creativity
10/11/2015 07:15:03 pm
This video show us that in school we have to learn what they think it is important by teaching each generation the same way. But every person if different and the thing we call creativity is something everybody needs. However, without the tools and solid foundation, creativity doesn’t work. Old education is the best method of teaching when young people without creativity will not be able to work without that skill. So like the guy in the video said letting kids make their own mistakes and having them or someone in class show them the correct answer is killing their creative experience and they need to know when to help and when to just wait.
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Anja B
10/11/2015 08:51:45 pm
In Sir Ken Robinson's talk, I liked and strongly agreed when he said "If you're not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original". Many people are scared to take chances today because they are scared of what the result might be & and/or what might happen. I also agree with the fact that we are taught out of creativity more than we are born into it. We need to teach our future generations how to be open minded and try new things and be creative because that is what makes the world one and it's what brings new ideas to the table. We had a discussion last year in English class about how in school, we are not very much given the chance to be creative and give out opinions and that is what makes people more shy and distant from others. We spend half of our days in school where we are taught to be functioning people of this "corrupt society" and where our originality is constantly being judged and down-sized and when we go out into the real world, we forget how to be ourselves and how to create new ideas. I believe schools should give students the privilege to learn more about themselves & about the people around them so that way when they go do out into the real world, they are not afraid to meet new people and to interact with others.
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Keith C per 1
10/13/2015 01:55:58 pm
After watching this video I do agree that school kills creativity. A lot of students look at school as fitting in and trying to act "generic" to show to others that they are cool. School limits kids in the class room as well to only learning about certain subjects. A lot of people find motivation threw rewards and prizes get people to work hard. I always seem to work harder and get more motivated when I find a benefit or incentive behind it.
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Alex Marske
10/14/2015 07:17:29 am
These two videos have changed my thinking on how I go about my average day. The one that had the greatest effect on me was the motivation video, as I felt I could relate more to it. It taught me that if I spend more time doing things that I actually enjoy then I will improve more at that subject as opposed to doing something that I don't enjoy.
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Julian M
10/15/2015 02:55:56 pm
No, school teaches how to read, write, and spell, but it does nothing in teaching about relationships and about how and why we react to emotions or teach any skills or tools to build awareness to damaging negative repetitious patterns. It teaches nothing about real life and the real consequences of breaking the law and the laws that are out there. Schools teach nothing about what alcohol really is and what it does and how it effects and poisons ever cell in your body. There is so much not being taught that should be mandatory teaching in every school around the world. Why is this?
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mariah a
10/15/2015 03:02:41 pm
I disagree with the video because, they believe that money is what makes the world go round. Parents push their kids to go for jobs that make money but don't interest them. Today money is the main drive for people which is why they go to schools. They do limit us and what we do. We are forced to learn certain information in the ways they choose to teach us. If school wasn't so limited then students may be more engaged.
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Cassidy Garcia
10/15/2015 07:25:58 pm
The surprising truth about what motivates us
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Alex Angeles
10/16/2015 12:10:06 am
Just reading the title, I automatically agree, that school kills our creativity. In my perspective, how I see school is, that usually when you are original and creative, you are you.. unique.. yourself. That means doing what YOU feel whats right, even if your wrong and you know it, you were still you, like how Sir Ken Robinson said,"If you're not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original" As we attend school, school labels us, and we expect to be what some people expect us to be. We are afraid on making mistakes.. and we soon just grow out of our creative minds, and lose it.
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Joy S
10/16/2015 11:48:52 am
"Money is what drives people to success." That statement is true because we work to make money. We go to college in the hopes of getting our dream jobs, and a big salary.
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Fernando R
10/16/2015 02:22:28 pm
I do agree that schools kill creativity. Schools teach some importances, but not all the time necessarily. They teach us things for example about the past, and not current events. Instead of teaching us about taxes and stock investments, they teach us how to plot and graph points. They claim to prepare us for college but they don't help us try and figure out what we want to major in. When we enter college they expect us to want to know what we want to do.
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Ashley C
10/16/2015 02:27:29 pm
After watching these two videos I have learned that making consequences I make in my life I can find ways to make improvements. I have made tons of wrong choices in my life and had a really hard time to get out of them but I got my head out of the ground and turned my life around. After i turned my life around I feel a lot more excited to be around society and feeling free instead of glued to one wrong choice i have made.
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Parick Mieczkowski
10/16/2015 03:02:17 pm
After watching these videos I thought about “why do I really go to school”? “How did I change over the years”. Its makes me wonder about how people change over the years and how its because of the things we learn in school and see in the real world. I chose what I do, but I get thought what’s right and wrong in school. This taught me that I have to be creative in what I do and not lose my imagination and I have to make what I do look like it really comes from my mind not what I got taught was right and wrong.
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Patricia Murczek
10/16/2015 10:18:54 pm
I really think that both videos have a lot of truth to them, the one that talks about what motivates was kind of a shocker, as usually people think the more money you get the more work you will do and better. But that seems to be true until a certain point. It seems though that when fun is incorporated into the work then people seem to do better at work. It is a good thing to learn about if anyone ever plans to own a business or manage people. And for the one that talks about how schools kill creativity, I think there is some truth to that, schools all go along with a certain set of rules and regulations and treat each child as an equal to another, unless there is a teacher that treats each child as an individual. Over all schools try to shape each child the same way, fill the kids with basic information every year and let them move on. But what schools should be incorporating creative thinking and critical thinking. Most lessons in school just teach us critical thinking, yet, I also believe that high school is one of the few places kids can find their creative edges. We can do after school things and join clubs and even join creative classes. I guess it all depends on the perspective.
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11/3/2015 02:37:31 pm
After watching these videos I realized that in todays days, creativity is not as important as making money. People think that the more money they make the happier they will be. This is not true because if people find jobs that they are not interested in, then they will be a lot more miserable. They should find something that they enjoy doing instead of just going for a job that they hate because in the future they will not be able to handle it so they will just quit. I also learned that school is killing childrens creativity. The education we learn in school is very linear and everyone is taught in the same way. We do not learn creative thinking so that might be a problem in the future because we might not know how to be innovative and we will run out of ideas on how to make the world better.
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Ty Ustaszewski-Chretien
11/6/2015 09:41:43 am
Schools are legally aloud to take away rights you get from the constitution. They are allowed to stop freedom of speech and freedom of religion. They tell you what you can and cant say and can and cant wear. They stop you from being yourself to "protect" other people. As said in the video people work to make money proves that the money is more important.
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Pawel G
11/6/2015 02:39:18 pm
I agree with both videos, i really liked the one about motivation because right after i watched the video i bought a book called 'drive" which was a reference to making this video. i agree as to when it stated when you keep raising somebodies pay there's a certain point where their job progress just stops improving.
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Tenny A
11/11/2015 03:14:26 pm
I agree with both videos and school kills creativity because kids this days in the modern society are scared to make mistakes or be wrong due to the consequences. Nowadays in school or outside of school people are scared to show their creativity or show their ideas because of criticism.
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