I think Creating Innovators is written for an older generation. While the statistics are impressive, and the information is interesting to read about, this generation coming up through school doesn’t need to be told that creativity is necessary for the future. We’ve watched technology advance exponentially since we were born, and it’s not going to stop.
I’m not actually sure what my feelings are toward the first chapter of this book. I think it’s maybe the same feeling you get when a teenager reads a book about teenage psychology written for adults. They probably end up feeling a little offended, just because of they way the teenagers are addressed.
I mean, I’m not really offended by the way this book addresses students, and I suppose it’s a step in the right direction for the world when it talks about “how to create innovators,” but it’s still a little annoying to hear their steps for developing kids into innovators: especially since it’s so obvious to students. Haven’t students been wanting to play and do what they love for the past, well, forever?
I guess what annoys me is that people are beginning to publish all sorts of official literature about this topic, filling up books with statistics and information and quotes from important people, trying to communicate what the new educational paradigm should be, when kids have been trying to say this stuff for a very long time. Playing is good! We want to go outside for class! Don’t give us too much homework, because we want to maybe concentrate on things that are important to us!
So I think that in order to encourage innovation, adults might do well to listen to kids once and a while. Think about how much faster we could have arrived at this conclusion if adults had given a thought to the way children have learned best since the beginning. It’s sort of depressing that only now are adults starting to realize how important creativity and imagination are.
I’m not actually sure what my feelings are toward the first chapter of this book. I think it’s maybe the same feeling you get when a teenager reads a book about teenage psychology written for adults. They probably end up feeling a little offended, just because of they way the teenagers are addressed.
I mean, I’m not really offended by the way this book addresses students, and I suppose it’s a step in the right direction for the world when it talks about “how to create innovators,” but it’s still a little annoying to hear their steps for developing kids into innovators: especially since it’s so obvious to students. Haven’t students been wanting to play and do what they love for the past, well, forever?
I guess what annoys me is that people are beginning to publish all sorts of official literature about this topic, filling up books with statistics and information and quotes from important people, trying to communicate what the new educational paradigm should be, when kids have been trying to say this stuff for a very long time. Playing is good! We want to go outside for class! Don’t give us too much homework, because we want to maybe concentrate on things that are important to us!
So I think that in order to encourage innovation, adults might do well to listen to kids once and a while. Think about how much faster we could have arrived at this conclusion if adults had given a thought to the way children have learned best since the beginning. It’s sort of depressing that only now are adults starting to realize how important creativity and imagination are.