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.