Every day, our society is changing. We are moving, melding, and fitting into the never-ending needs and wants of our convenient lifestyles. We are always connected, no matter where we may be in our day. With all this connection, new discoveries, and endless sources of information and inspiration, one would think that the world we live in would improve with every passing second. Yet, it is becoming more and more apparent that this is not true. Yes, it may sound like something a grandparent would grumble about across the kitchen table about the “kids these days,” but our country’s lack of want and encouragement for individual intellectual thought and creative exploration is becoming a problem. America’s decline in intellectual and individual …show more content…
In the arts, it has opened the door to many new art forms: digital paintings, graphics, illustrations, music, and more. It allows for a new source of endless inspiration. But, although it has its place, it is so difficult to break away from the never-ending use. With the new benefits of technology, many traditional art forms are lost. In education, many people can argue that technology makes everything more convenient. You can work from anywhere in the world at any time. Some may argue that technology allows for faster research, quicker sharing, and efficient learning. It brings a new element into the classroom, some saying that technology adds a new level of discovery and fun into learning (Rhodes). And although these may be true to a point, all the added efficiency and quickness adds to our society’s lack of focus, laziness, and dislike for individual and intellectual thought. Technology becomes a crutch (Harven). We become too dependent, once again not doing any of the thinking for ourselves. It becomes more distracting than …show more content…
It may seem like nothing is being done; new technology is being introduced to younger and younger children every day, people are becoming more ignorant and lazy in their ways, and nothing is being done to change schools. So, what can be fixed? According to Bronson and Merryman from Newsweek, the idea that creativity can only be fostered in an art or music class needs to be forgotten, and schools need to begin encouraging and nurturing the entire creative process in homerooms, math, and science classes. This will help children not jump straight to an answer, but rather fully explore any possibilities. This will benefit our declining creative society, leading to the want for individual learning and creative exploration (Bronson and Merryman). Ray Williams from Psychology Today suggests another solution to this problem. He believes that our media and culture needs to stop putting down the stereotype of “nerds” or “dweebs”, and start putting value and positive associations with intellectual thought. Another idea from Williams is to put less value on rebutting some argument on social media, instead going out and actually educating oneself about the topic (Williams). On a smaller scale, phones and laptops can be set down and replaced by a book or some paintbrushes. This is easier said than done, since it is so hard to truly get away from the virtual world in this day and age. But even so,
In this text, the author explores the role that technology currently plays in schools and in education in general, as well as future consequences that will occur depending on whether society continues to insist on a type of education that is relatively lacking in technology or decides to embrace the options available whole-heartedly. There are both gains...
All students, and children especially, have tremendous talents, which are forgotten when their minds walk through the school door. Their forever developing talents and favorite interests are left for an uncreative school environment. I, for one, have always been taught and believed in an education, or following the guidelines of another, was essential in achieving wealth and success later in life. However, after listening to Robinson’s argumentative speech, I realize creativity and a valued education coincide with each other. To justify myself, creativity and thinking outside the box has led to many of the world’s advancements. Therefore, when teaching future leaders, and future generations of employees and employers, teaching creativity in a forever rapidly changing and unpredictable world would have benefits. At last, I believe that the educational system puts too much emphasis on a substantial, everyday American future over one’s happiness in a later life. Every human being is already born a unique artist, never made into one; constantly growing into a more talented
From communicating with one another to researching for an essay, these high-tech gadgets are constantly being used. Unfortunately this is slowly becoming a danger to the human mind and an individual's ability to carry out simple tasks. This can be shown through the examples in Carr’s novel. He states multiple times that technology is damaging the brain and is struggling to do the simple tasks it should be able to do. Through his multiple examples, it is clear that technology is hurting us because we can no longer contemplate, concentrate, remember certain details, and more. Although, we cannot avoid using technology, we should be mindful of how often we use
Western culture had many important effects on the United States as a developing nation, and art education was no exception to this. In order to come to terms with the impact of Western culture on American art education, it is important to chronicle the progression of art education throughout Europe. Spanning centuries, the political, social, and economic development of European nations, each played an important role the philosophies of art education, which in the long run, affected American ideas concerning the subject.
Children are typically put down when they want to be a musician, actor, artist, etc. they are pushed into careers that will ‘further society’s progress’. “...academic ability, which has really come to dominate our view of intelligence...the whole system of public education around the world is a protracted process of university entrance...the consequence is that many highly-talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not...[due] to the thing they were good at school wasn't valued…” (TED). Student are pushed from their passions and encouraged to attend universities to help industrialize the world. Although industrialization is inherently important, an individual's possible success in other fields are influenced negatively during early academic years. When locked into a state of standardization many students can not succeed and that is when education will fail and get dispirited due to bad grades. “They’re quitting because they’re discouraged and bored...creative people, for the most part, exhibit active moods and positive affect. They’re not particularly happy...But they’re engaged, motivated, and open to the world…”(Bronson). Many students stop paying attention in class, they day dream, draw or write stories; they get disciplined when they don’t pay attention in a classroom setting or if they are too fidgety. This is due to the lack of personalization
What they neglect to realize is that most problems are unpredictable. So when a student faces a challenge not taught in the classroom, they will be incapable of solving or getting out of the situation. Once the formula does not work, creativity becomes a necessity. Some even fear the mere thought of imagination, since new possibilities open up the risk of failure or not being accepted. Students hold back their curiosity once they realize that teachers are unwilling to answer their question if it differs even slightly from the curriculum. These are the exact reasons our youth’s power to create fades. The value of creativity is beyond words; our society thrives on innovation. Take the stereotypical example of Bill Gates—he became a billionaire with the help of his creative thinking. So why would creativity not be the heart of our education system? Simply because there is not enough time or enough people willing to put in the
This shows how much society has changed since the 1900’s. Modern-day children are worse in almost every aspect of creative thinking when compared to previous generations. Society is hurting children’s imagination by not being supportive of outside time and social connections. With modern electronic devices, kids seldomly need to leave the house in order to be entertained. The lack of play time and social interactions severely hamper the development of children’s creativity. In summary, society is developing into something that lacks encouragement of creativity, and that is a major
Creativity is an essential attribute of human beings that is primarily developed in our childhood. Creativity is defined as the ability to use the imagination to develop new and original ideas or things, especially in an artistic context. This artistic context can range anywhere from visual arts, to music, to dance. Although, the problem today is that this critical role of imagination, discovery, and creativity in a child 's education is not being fulfilled to its maximum. The cause of this expanding problem is that too many art and music programs, which promote creativity, are being taken out of school programs. Problems around this issue then begin to surface; children will soon not appreciate, or realize, creativities ' vital importance and how it shapes oneself. Therefore, curriculum in schools is limiting the growth and development of creativity in adolescents.
Free thinking is what encourages our creatively but it seems that school systems find it irrelevant. According to Tony Wagner in forbes.com, “[h]e identified five ways in which America’s education system is stunting innovation: individual achievement is the focus, specialization is celebrated and rewarded, risk aversion is the norm, learning is profoundly passive, and extrinsic incentives drive learning" (par. 9-14). Each point he made was to show what schools are currently focused on and how it affects the children’s thinking. In all of the points made, students are taught two things; how to the reiterate the information given to them and to not fail the class by any means. With this current system students are taught to follow directions, ultimately leading them to not think for themselves or how they can get to the solution. In Doomed to Fail, Zoch did researched about Jamesian’s psychology, basically stating a student chooses what interest their minds and learn those lessons. He reiterated James central idea: “That is for James the essence of education: to help students develop their minds in order that they may solve whatever problems life presents” (10). Later on in life, students will rely on people to find a solution to their problem instead of figuring out themselves. If school systems were able to stress the importance of the arts and have it as a daily class or create more real life situations in the class; students would be able to stimulate their minds and offer their opinions to
Using creativity in the classroom will create strong students and help better them for the future. Now, students are just being taught to what is on the test. They do not learn how to be leaders, how to work in groups, people skills, or how to use their mind that is not just for memorizing the information. “The challenge now is to transform education systems into something better suited to the real needs of the 21st century. At the heart of this transformation there has to be a radically different view of human intelligence and of creativity” (Robinson K., 2011, p. 14). Using creativity and technology will allow the students to enjoy learning more. I noticed in my final project, that other students who weren’t education majors, saw this problem too. Many of them did not see creativity in a classroom, they felt that the school system was creating them into robots that taught them all how to think a certain way. Ken Robinson feels that, “we don’t grow into creativity; we grow out of it. Often we are educated out of it.” (2011, p. 49). Teachers should be teaching students how to be creative, and how to think on their own, so students will be able to go far in the future and succeed in any job they
Virtual and digital technologies are rampant in American culture and thoroughly utilized in entertainment mediums like television, movies, magazines, and video games. Our capitalist economy creates a fertile environment for these mediums to prosper by feeding off the public's hunger for entertainment. Because these industries are in such high demand and accrue billion dollar revenues, new technologies are often conceived in and funded by these trades: "For, in essence, all socially relevant new image media, from classical antiquity to the revolution of digital images, have advanced to serve the interests of maintaining power and control or maximizing profits" (Grau 339). That being the case, new technologies "hardly ever…advanced solely for artistic purposes" (Grau 339). Because "power" and "profits" are the central means of motivation in our culture; art, in the classical sense, is often an afterthought. In an age where entertainment and art intertwine, however, distinctions between the two based upon their creation are impossible. With advances in technology and, in turn, art, our ideas and traditions of comparison should also develop to justly analyze new media: "Although art history and the history of the media have always stood in an interdependent relationship and art has commented on, taken up, or even promoted each new media development, the view of art history as media history…is still underdeveloped" (Grau 4). In order to embrace virtual art as a valid outlet of artistic expression, its relationship to media and unique position in the history of art must first be acknowledged.
Technology is also used as a tool in the method of teaching and learning for faster and easier education. It is now an academic necessity i...
The technological aspect of digital art often leads to questioning of whether or not it can be considered art. Digital art has been accepted and embraced by the commercial and entertainment industries for many years, but is finding it much harder to become part of the fine arts community. Digital art has many hurdles to overcome before it will be fully accepted by the mainstream tradit...
For an effective education creativity needs to be present within all aspects of a primary classroom. So what does it mean to be ‘creative’? According to Sir Ken Robinson “creativity is the process of having original ideas which have value”. Creativity can be demonstrated through the use of technology, problem solving experiments and allowing children the freedom to explore and express new ideas. It is very important to ensure a child can get the best creative education; this is because creativity will give the necessary skills needed for our future. Children must become creative problem solvers if they are in leadership positions as this will help them within society, even though all children may not be in a leadership position it is beneficial for them to have a creative mind-set. Because the world we live in is constantly developing new ideas, concepts and technology, creativity is definitely the most important quality a child can have. Sir Ken Robinson’s, (an international advisor on education) views on creativity in education will be discussed along with New Labour views which includes the National Advisory Committee on Creative and Cultural Education (NACCCE). The 1977 white paper, the open plan for schools, and the 2003 excellence and enjoyment strategy concepts will also be drawn on.
Creative and original thought needs to be inspired at a younger age in order to have a long lasting effect, as educational technologies obstruct a student’s ability to work with a person or group to solve complex problems.... ... middle of paper ... ... Is Google Making Us Stupid? Magazine - The Atlantic.