WEEK TWO

Topics for CS Blog Week 2 :

1. List A -  Give 5 words associated to 'Creativity'.

List B - Give 5 words not associated to 'Creativity'.

Explain further, discuss (or illustrate) how/why you came out with each  word/idea? You could also improvise from the words and see where it gets you. 

2. Respond and reflect to the Ken Robinson 2006 Ted Talk episode on creativity education and intelligence. You can find the link at the reference note of Lecture notes for Week 2.

Remember, have fun, yet be thoughtful and always 'thinking'. Have a go, and always try harder.

5 WORDS ASSOCIATED TO "CREATIVITY"

1. New
2. Invent
3. Think
4. Ideas
5. Exercise

5 WORDS NOT ASSOCIATED TO "CREATIVITY"

1. Plagiarism 
2. Old
3. Past
4. Effortless
5. Blamestorm

WHAT DO I THINK WHEN I CAME 

ACROSS THE WORDS THAT ASSOCIATED WITH CREATIVITY

AND WORDS THAT ARE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH CREATIVITY?

NEW? This is one of the most common words that associated with creativity. 

You can't actually take someone else ideas that wouldn't be creative, it would 

just be PLAGIARISM. Creative people DO or INVENT something new for better 

of the world by improvising what we have in the PAST. I doubt people would 

actually think about something OLD when they are trying to think about 

something NEW. To be creative you actually have to THINK and BRAINSTORM 

instead of BLAMESTORM  fresh IDEAS. EFFORTLESS won't get you no where. 

You have to make your mind to do some EXERCISE.

Respond and reflect to the Ken Robinson 2006 Ted Talk episode on creativity education and intelligence. You can find the link at the reference note of Lecture notes for Week 2.

School has an uncompromising curriculum that tells you what to know and what not to know. I've been living in Malaysia for 21 years and I see most of us during our childhood, we were train to learn the subjects based on the curriculum specifications just to pass our exams every year. Most of us, just study these subjects because it promise us a bright future. You could ask a lot of students around us, " Why are you at school? What do you learn from school?" I can ensure that most of the students will just simply say " I study just to get a job in the future." None of the schools teaches us to be creative or to think creative. Even teachers get angry if they see any random drawings on the students exercise books. School never really help students in developing their talents. So I think parents should try to encourage their children to be more artistic just to balance their education system. 

WEEK ONE PART TWO

What is this object of curiosity?

In previous class, our lecturer had shown object of curiosity which is:

From my image schemata, I recall that the object of curiosity is a bottle cap. 
Also I did some research on the object. It turns out the curiosity object is a bottle cap for a perfume from silkygirl.

What does the bottle cap do?

The bottle cap is used to seal the top of the bottle so the inside wont leak out. Bottle caps are also made from plastics and aluminium. It comes in different colors and designs. Bottle caps also made for promotional purpose for example: behind a bottle coke caps there's always a hidden message behind it to determine the winner. Thus people need to drink more coke, to increase the chance of winning.

Killing time by playing bottle caps 

When I was a kid, I still remember my friends and I collect the bottle caps. Not because of it's design or to increase chance of winning the lucky draw but we collect because we want to play the bottle caps. We would scatter the bottle caps and we try to hit it all the bottle caps as if we were playing pool except in this game we use a bottle caps and our fingers. Interesting? It is a famous game kids play during 90's in Malaysia. The object of the curiosity could also be used in this game.

KEY FOR A MUSIC BOX

Maybe the object of curiosity is a key to open a music box. Since the object have the shape of a turning key. Since the object of the curiosity is pink, I'm sure it belongs to a feminine item. 

TO CREATE A PATTERN

You can use the bottom of the object of curiosity to make a circle pattern on a plasticine or it could also be used to decorate a cake on a fondant.

WEEK ONE PART ONE

WEEK ONE 

Why did the Titanic hit the iceberg?

One of the titanic's sponsors wanted the ship to reach New York, which was the charted destination at a record time. Having complete confidence in the ship's massive frame and monstrous engines, he persuaded the captain to push the ship to its absolute limit. Reluctantly, the captain obliged. On the fated night of the Titanic's demise, the waters were calm but the sky thick with fog, obscuring vision. The lookout mate did not spot a massive iceberg until it was within his visual range, which by then its too late. Due to the ship's massive momentum and inertia due to the high speed, the ship's crew were unable to steer the ship away from the iceberg in time, ultimately colliding with it, causing a breach in the hull of gigantic proportions. The ship went down and thousands died, including the captain who opted to sink with the ship. Many died during the terrible incident and many of them aboard the ship wishing they can build a better life at New York. 

However, I did some research on the titanic. How the Titanic hit the iceberg and one website caught my attention which is 

"The truth about the sinking Titanic by Louise Patten, whose grandfather was the only surviving officer on the Titanic, reveals the truth about how it sank".

Louise Patten stated that:

'Titanic was launched at a time when the world was moving from sailing ships to steam ships. My grandfather, like the other senior officers on Titanic, had started out on sailing ships. And on sailing ships, they steered by what is known as “Tiller Orders” which means that if you want to go one way, you push the tiller the other way. [So if you want to go left, you push right.] It sounds counter-intuitive now, but that is what Tiller Orders were. Whereas with “Rudder Orders’ which is what steam ships used, it is like driving a car. You steer the way you want to go. It gets more confusing because, even though Titanic was a steam ship, at that time on the North Atlantic they were still using Tiller Orders. Therefore Murdoch gave the command in Tiller Orders but Hitchins, in a panic, reverted to the Rudder Orders he had been trained in. They only had four minutes to change course and by the time Murdoch spotted Hitchins’ mistake and then tried to rectify it, it was too late.’

Louise Patten might spoke the truth, but there is no proof and if it is the truth will the Titanic passenger would be alive back then? Hundreds died because one mistake done by Hitchins and he's panic during the time. Since Louise Patten is known as a book author. Is she telling the truth just to publish a new book to gain popularity? 

The article was from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/8016751/The-truth-about-the-sinking-of-the-Titanic.html