"Create is at the root of creative thinking. If we want
children to develop as creative thinkers, we need to provide
them with more opportunities to create (Resnick)."
"How can we use new technologies to integrate play, design,
and learning? One way is to provide children with the
opportunity to design their own games (Resnick)."
"In recent years, schools have adopted more “hands-on”
design activities, but the focus is usually on the creation of
an artifact rather than critical reflection on the ideas that
guided the design, or strategies for refining and improving the
design, or connections to underlying scientific concepts and
related real-world phenomena (Resnick)."
Response:
I chose the first quote because I strongly agree with what it says. To get students to become creative thinkers they have to be given a chance to create and sadly once a student reaches the secondary schools most of the opportunities to create something for themselves have been taken away or the guidelines are so strict that there is seldom room for their own creativity. The next quote I chose because I thought this was a great idea. Just think about what students would learn by creating their own games. They would learn how to use technology in a very creative fun way along with several other things including design and even problem solving. I see this last quote as still being a major problem in our schools today. Teachers are having students create projects but that spend little time on why they did this project and how it relates to the real world instead once the project is done then the students get a grade and they move on.
Here is a YouTube video with Mitchel Resnick talking about the kindergarten approach to learning.
Sources:
All i really need to know (about creative thinking) i learned (by studying how children learn) in kindergarten. Retrieved from http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/papers/kindergarten-learning-approach.pdf
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