11A Questions for the Practice Quiz

                The readings that were assigned for this week all had interesting points to them, but they also raised a lot of questions. For instance, what is interleaving, and why is it an important strategy to have? Also Steve Jobs said that “the best meetings happened by accident” what does he mean by that? And why is it important? Another question that popped into my head was out of the 32 innovative ideas, which one do you think would be the most beneficial to society? And why do you think that is? The last question I had was a nurturing environment is a place where a person doesn’t have to fear about being ridiculed for what they have to say; how important is that type of environment for fueling creativity?

               Out of the four questions that I had, I chose to focus my attention to answering the last one, how does a nurturing environment fuel creativity? To me a nurturing environment fuels creativity because it creates a safe place for someone to express themselves and not constantly live in fear about having someone tell them they are wrong. Kids are naturally creative, and in the TED talk that we watched, Ken Robinson makes the point that schools kill creativity because they put restrictions on it and focus more on math and literacy. An environment that caters to creativity can be beneficial in the future because the best ideas come from people who as kids were able to express their creativity. Robinson gives the example of the choreographer, and what I took from that was that because she was able to explore her creativity as a kid, she was able to implement it into her future career. This week’s vocab word was innovation, and that relates directly with creativity because innovation is a new idea or method, and person can never come up with idea if they were never allowed to explore their creative side; but to be creative it all has to start with an environment that encourages it. Overall I think a nurturing environment allows for creativity to grow and be explored, and because of that it allows people to become more innovated and eventually can lead to creating something that can change the world for the better.