Today, our writing teacher had made a speech about creativity and told us to summarize it. Now here is the summary.
Creativity is a production which can be fun and reasonable. However, creativity is not reproduction of something that has already been made. Also it is not easy and it is not magic.
Our writing teacher talked about pseudo-science of the theory of how the eye shifting is good for increasing creativity. There are many myths about the creativity. For example, one of the myths says drugs and alcohol can strengthen creativity. Also our writing teacher said that being constructive is bad for creativity. So instead of a paper with constructive writing on it, the blank canvas is much more better. Lastly, fear, deadlines, and money can encourage creativity.
Some of the works or activities don't require creativity. You might need to be good at art to be good at creativity. Some restrictions can improve creativity.
Now I will tell you what damages creativity. As many teachers or parents do, some people give money, prizes, and compliments on the thing they are doing. However, the giving of money, prizes, and compliments is suprisizingly damaging the creativity very much. One famous actor named John Cleese, who also came out in Harry Potter movies as "Nearly Headless Nick", said that distrations like phones kill creativity. Lastly, studying for Modern Standardized Tests are harmful to creativity.
Now that I finished about damaging creativity, I will talk about how to do if you don't want creativity. You can use standard responses like, "How are you?" to deacrease your creativity.
These are some ways to motivate student to be creative. You can make Fed-ex Day and let the student choose the material for one day or month. You can praise him, or her effort and strategy, but not on intelligence. Also seeing big picture helps students to be more creative.
