Dr. Victoria Stevens | Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst, Researcher and Musician. #23: The Creativity Question--Creativity in Education. 23: The Creativity Question Even as educational fads appeared and vanished during the past century, some themes remained constant. One was a hatred for discipline, memorization and practice. Educators claimed that these strategies produce unmotivated and uncreative students. So what would make children creative? Top-level educators (aka the Education Establishment) want children to learn by doing. Decades ago I first saw the phrase “rote memorization.” Educators argued that the old-fashioned strategies had to be eradicated because they produced robotic behavior, not creativity. Draw a Stickman. Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… - The Best Places To Create (And Find) Internet Scavenger Hunts & Webquests.
There seems to be a fair amount of confusion about the definition of a “Webquest.” Bernie Dodge, who originated the model in 1995, described it like this in a comment on this blog last year: “A critical attribute of a WebQuest is that it engages higher level thinking, the upper part of Bloom’s taxonomy. Things like creativity, analysis, synthesis. judgment…. A WebQuest is also wrapped around a single challenging task, not a sequence of separate activities A WebQuest isn’t a scavenger hunt and it isn’t a worksheet with links.” Here’s an additional helpful comment Bernie added to this post: “A WebQuest is centered around a challenging, doable and (ideally) authentic task.
Obviously there’s a place for both WebQuests and scavenger hunts, but they are different places with very different goals.” I can empathize with his desire to make the distinction clear between a scavenger hunt and a webquest. Given that, however, we all live in the real world where ambiguity reigns supreme. Related. Writing a test for creativity. Of course I never actually use the pre-course version of the final exam without editing it to reflect the course as it was taught. I also design houses. I produce a design in collaboration with the owners before the construction starts.
This generally requires from four to eight major revisions prior to the final plan. Additionally, during the construction we make frequent changes and improvements on the final plan. Tests also get better if we review them periodically as they incubate on the hard drives of our computers. Your ideas related to this page Like everything else about life, this web page is a creative work in progress. Twitter / Home.