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Kenny Nguyen
Instructor: Malcolm Campbell
English 1102
November 25, 2013

Why dose creativity matters?
Why is creativity important to us? We often think about creativity as making
something artistic, but in fact the root meaning of the word means to grow and it dose
matter to everyone. Creativity makes life infinitely interesting and fulfilling. Creativity
along with innovation is the most important tools achieving success. Without creativity
there would be no innovation. We would continue to be cavemen. Think back from the
point we were a child to the point we are an adult, we are always find the meaning and
the purpose of our life. We want to be unique. We want to matter. We use our creativity
to change the whole world. It become one of the most important qualities people have.

Creativity brings up many benefits such as the ability to solve everyday problems
and the ability to develop our nature talent. We need to unleash your creativity and
understand how important it is to have it flourish throughout our study and career.
Ken Robinson, the author of Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative (Capstone
Publishing Limited, 2001) writes: "The challenges we currently face are without
precedent. More people live on this planet now than at any other time in history. The
world's population has doubled in the past 30 years. We're facing an increasing strain on
the world's natural resources. Technology is advancing at a headlong rate of speed. It's
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transforming how people work, think, and connect. It's transforming our cultural values."
(Robinson). Thus, we are living in times of technological explosion, not only each person
need to be more creative but also that is the big socials challenge. Creativity help us
filter the overwhelming amount of information we get everyday.
In our modern society, children and young peoples are both easily affected by the
change of living environment. Outside the frame of school and family is a powerful
attraction from media and technology devices. If creativity is innate, it might not be lost.
But it is necessary to be nurtured and cultivated. Particularly in education, does it really
realize effectively its functions toward children and young people? Once again, Ken
Robinson has been painted the big presage picture from the aspect of a future viewer: "
Also, we're living in times of massive unpredictability. The kids who are starting school
this September will be retiringif they ever doaround 2070. Nobody has a clue what
the world's going to look like in five years, or even next year actually, and yet it's the job
of education to help kids make sense of the world they're going to live in."( Robinson).As
the result, he highlighted the two mainly reasons that strongly effected on creativity.
There are technology and education. Most people are born creative, but over time, we
were effected by living environment and society factors, people think they are less
creative more than they were a child.
As an adult, we might recognize creativitys problems at different aspects. Most
of us think creativity is the domain of children, young age peoples and the artists, but
actually its just a belief and misconception. The same time, people argue that those
people is always being more creative. Whether if we say the more we grow up the less
creative we become?
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Unfortunately its true, psychologist shows At around about the age of five, we
are using about 80% of our creative potential. We invent daily - no matter than our
inventions have been invented before, the fact is that we are innovating at a remarkable
rate. The scary coda to this story is that by the age of twelve, our creative output has
declined to about 2% of our potential, and it generally stays there for the rest of our
lives. (Moran) Think back our childhoods when we were kids. We would learn new
things in order to build up our capacities for knowledge and discover our own nature
talents. Children are naturally curious and want to know what they dont already know.
Thus the only question they dont ask is why they have to learn something. Children and
young people demonstrate the very definition of creativity: alternating between divergent
and convergent thinking, they arrive at original and useful ideas.
In school, we learn there is one true way of thinking, one right answer for every
problem, one instruction to follow in years. Instead of being interested, students were
stick in boring classrooms and became afraid to creative. In reality, for the first time
American creativity in decline declared on New York Time 2010. This marked a
warning alarm for the whole education system in the nation. "For most, creativity has
been buried by rules and regulations. Our educational system was designed during the
Industrial Revolution over 200 years ago, to train us to be good workers and follow
instructions." said, Linda Naiman the founder of the website Creativity at work , co-
author of the book Orchestrating Collaboration at Work (Naiman). Rules and regulations
influence what people believe is right and wrong just as surely as a law or a norm. They
contribute to limit the creative abilities because they provided stable and predictable
thoughts. On one hand, they keep us from fall into being wrong. On another hand, they
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are enemies of the creative process. To explain why, Ken Robinson continue to mention
that " If you're not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything
original... If you're not prepared to be wrong and by the time, they get to be adults, most
kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong." (Robinson).
Because of socialization and formal education, a lot of us be warier of judgment, more
cautious, more analytical. We were divided into creative and non-creative, and too
many people consciously or unconsciously resign themselves to the latter category.

School systems certainly play a significant role to encourage and develop
creativity by teaching and learning. Teachers help student develop the ability to choose
environment that stimulate their creativity. That is great. But as a integral part of that
process, testing or grading seem to emphasize the value of students creativity more than
give them the opportunity to be more creative. Kyung Hee Kim, psychologist, professor
of Educational psychology at The college of William and Mary said in her article The
Creativity Crisis that: Teachers claim to value creativity in children, but in fact it is
proven that they generally dislike creative behaviors and characteristics in the classroom
because they are inconvenient and hard to control.( Kim) Instead of giving student open
questions, defining problems, feedbacks and the opportunity to improve their creative,
teachers assign the grades, giving rigid theories and examples. The way our education
system operates is teaching our children out of their creative capacities.
According to U.S. educators, the greatest barriers to creativity in schools include:
21 peicent an education system that it too reliant on testing and assessment, 14 percent
school lack of proper resources, 12 percent educators are restricted from straying outside
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the curriculum (US Education Department, 2012). American creativity in decline effected
by schools is not the warning alarm for only kids or young people but also for us, college
students and adults. To conclusion for this problem in particular entrepreneurial students
and students in general, Zong Zhao wrote: School in general reduce instead of
enhancing creativity and entrepreneurial spirit because they have been design to prepare
good employees. And the qualities of good employees in traditional sense are drastically
different from what make a good entrepreneurial worker today. The majority of schools
in the world today are facing increasing pressure to produce good employees and thus
working hard at what is believe to produce good employees with prescribed standardized
curricula, lock-step pacing guides, and standardized test that encourage memorization and
compliance.( Zong Zhao). In any aspect, we have to admit that losing creativity cause
education factor is potentially disturbing and need to be solved.
We are in danger of allowing technology to reducing ourselves and our children
creativity. What did happened when our older generations were kids without an I-phone,
I-pad, computer, playstation, video games? And what is happening now for our kids in
present world with the huge support from those technology devices? It is quiet sad when
people say that todays children forgot how to be children. Technology contribute to
decrease the ability to imagine and self-expression at kid. As study shows For younger
children, the decrease probably arises more significantly from their home than their
schools because research indicates personality development is most influenced by home
environments. Research also indicated that more children are spending the majority of
their time in front of televisions, computers, and video games, and less time engaging in
what I consider creative activities. says Dr. Kim. Insteau of ieauing book, kiu moie
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exciteu with new meuia uevices. The piogiess of imagine was cut off because they
get uiiect infoimation fiom the scieens anu then they aie uone. They foigot how to
imagine fiom the ieauing, the text, the pictuies, the self-expiession in theii magic
woilu.

Theie aie seveial opposite iueas aiounu that whethei technology is actually
bau foi kiu. Example as the impact of viueo game, in an inteivieweu " Explaining the
uecline of Cieativity in Ameiica Chiluien" Bi Kim mentioneu that " viueo games
constitute an evei incieasing pait of a chilu's uay. Theie aie uiffeient types of viueo
games, anu geneially they aie set in a fantasy enviionment, oi even a iealistic one,
anu hone hanu-eye cooiuination. They may also offei some limiteu pioblem solving,
as in figuiing out how to get thiough a uooi oi acioss a chasm. Piogiamming oi
uesigning these games may sometimes be cieative, but I uo not believe playing them
geneially fosteis cieativity." (Kim). We aie not tiying to emphasize the bau thing of
viueo games oi technology. In ieality, we aie using them a lots moie than chiluien.
But if we'ie stanuing at the aspect of the paients, shoulu we be alloweu to contiol a
bit bettei the access theii chiluien have to technology. 0i Shoulun't we help them
uevelop social skills anu imagination befoie giving them games.

As an employee, were experiencing how technology changing our workplaces.
More than ever, we need to be creative to follow that tensely changes of working
environment. Dont let technology left us behind, we created technology devices to help
us not to control us inside the box. In the journal of Psychological Science, the study has
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revealed that positive mood can spur creativity. The idea is that positive mood awards us
with greater flexibility in thinking because our perspectives are widened. }onah Lehiei
talkeu about the effects of technology to lessen cieativity at woik anu solutions to
fostei cieativity on his book !"#$%&' )*+ ,-'#.%/%.0 +*-12 : "If you'ie an engineei
woiking on a pioblem anu you'ie stumpeu by youi technical pioblem, chugging
caffeine at youi uesk anu chaining youiself to youi computei, you'ie going to be
ieally fiustiateu. You'ie going to waste lots of time. You may look piouuctive, but
you aie actually wasting time. Insteau, at that moment, you shoulu go foi a walk.
You shoulu play some ping-pong. You shoulu finu a way to ielax." Cieativity is
intelligence having fun. People like to watch funny viueos, listen to music at woik
that's also help. Positive moou has been founu to enhance cieative pioblem-solving
anu flexible yet caieful thinking.

Nowadays, people became more attention to figure out solutions help develop
creativity in all ages. At kids, creativity is skills that can be develop and a process that
can be manage. The innovation in education is necessary. We should give for kid the
interested in the process more than focus on the finished product. Self- expression is also
important because it will provide opportunity for kid figure out new ways to solving
problems, frees to express new ideas and fosters their mental growth. Instead of
encouraging creative expression by lessons, classes, schools and high-tech supports,
parents should let their children have their own choice to play and discover new things.
In recent years, many psychologist trying to figure out the ways to solving
creative problems but there are never one right answer. However, the good news is that
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creativity training that aligns with the new science works surprisingly well. Creativity can
be taught for kids and adults. A research from Robert Epstein, published on Psychology
Today shows Capturing skills can be taught to young children, to high school kids, to
adults, to top executives. Teachers, parents, and managers can boost the creative output
of a group many fold simply by providing some simple training and the right materials. (
Epstien). However, it is not only about teaching creativity because most people are born
creative. Training creative is get the ways to assist inspire it. All people are creative in
different ways, so we can help them get better in the areas in which they are naturally
creative.
US Department of Education also suggests that Adults can encourage creativity
by emphasizing the generation and expression of ideas in a non-evaluative framework
and by concentrating on both divergent and convergent thinking. Adults can also try to
ensure that children have the opportunity and confidence to take risks, challenge
assumptions, and see things in a new way." (Moran). If we want our children to be
creative, we must give them not only the opportunity to do, play, study and experiment
but also the skills and targets to be able to do so. There is very necessary to discussion
about what creativity is, and why we care about it for children in school ages.

Today, creativity is an increasingly essential part of business success. The social
world is becoming more interdependent and dynamic. Technology made our world
becomes 'smaller', innovation and creative thinking in the aspect of collaboration and
working in groups becomes more and more important. What should we do when we are
facing with a revolution in the workplaces and technologies? Should we focus more on
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creativity in education to help students have opportunities to develop the key skills of
collaboration and their future career?

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