Content Creation (part 1)

The assignment:

Have a discussion with one or more of your students about the role of creativity in the classroom.  What do they really value currently and/or what would they change about their learning environment when it comes to digital media and technology supporting creativity?

Post a blog entry that presents the findings from your discussion.


Hmm..so, I start a discussion about with some students today, and it breaks off into a discussion about Steve Jobs, and his creativity. I posted the following to the discussion "True Creativity in the Classroom":

In memory of Steve Jobs, an appropriate quote from him that relates to our readings and discussions..

"Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they've had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people."
May we all have experiences that enable us to enlighten us to the enjoyment of life.

RIP Steve Jobs


The biggest problem that these students saw was that, although creativity is able to be expressed outside of school, in school, everything in the classroom is too scripted. The only classes that they felt they could even be themselves in was Computers and Art. Even writing restricted their creativity. They do not like the writing prompts, since most of them are Constructed Responses, usually related to a reading passage. We will be continuing the conversation tomorrow at lunchtime..so you can consider this part 1. I plan on reading them the quote from Steve Jobs, and asking what they think about it, and what they would like to be able to do in the classroom. It should be an interesting lunch!