...Creative Spark Talk Analysis: “How Schools Kill Creativity" by Ken Robinson Jeff Talley University of Phoenix PHL/458 May 20, 2015 Faculty Name: Sonya Walker Creative Spark Talk Analysis: “How Schools Kill Creativity" by Ken Robinson At the TED conference in February 2006, Ken Robinson argues that schools are only teaching education and not creativity, which the school system should be concentrating on. He feels the students of today are not taught so much in the arts and music area. There is only a strong focus in educating the students in the math, science and literacy areas. Robinson also goes on to say that the sad part about this is if a young student enjoys either or both of the arts and music area, they are told that those areas will never get them a job in their future. He feels that having creativity (music and the arts) in the educational curriculum is just as important as literacy, math and science and that educators should treat it the same as the core subjects. Students lose their creativity when they are told at a young age that they are wrong because they don’t ever want to make another mistake again. When a child is growing up they don't care that they are wrong. Now, when a child is told that they are doing something wrong they don't ever want to make another mistake ever again. This in turn will cause...
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...Creative Spark Talk Analysis PHL/458 October 6,2014 Creative Spark Talk Analysis To find ones creative spark, one must look beyond the possibilities of failure within yourself and your peers and do what makes you happy. There will always be a time that the creativity will not be readily available, and the creative thinker will be able to recognize this and not get frustrated, and just find a way to put that spark away for another time. After watching a few of the TED Talks videos on Creative Spark, the one that caught my interests the most was Elizabeth Gilbert: Your Elusive Creative Genius. The video was shot in February of 2009 in front of a live studio audience. Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of the popular bestselling book Eat, Pray Love. Throughout her speech she goes into detail about her creative thinking process, using explanations to why she thinks the way she does, and gives incredible stories about other creative thinkers in which she discovered and developed her creative thinking process through. There are many elements to this video that made me choose it over the others. Elizabeth is both funny and intelligent, she knows the way she thinks and could easily explain this to an audience in such a way that it inspires one to think like her. Key points There are specific points that she hits throughout the video. The first thing she goes into is that She is a highly successful bestselling author that everyone feels sorry for and tells...
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...Creative Spark Talk Analysis PHL/458 Creative Spark Talk Analysis The video I have chosen is titled “Everything is a remix” by Kirby Ferguson, who is also the speaker. The presentation takes place in the year 2012 at Edinburgh, Scotland. The premise is that all creative thinking is based on the work done by those who came before us. In Kirby Ferguson’s words “Everything is a remix”, meaning there is nothing new under the sun. Ferguson defines the steps involved in making a “remix” of a song as consisting of 1) copy, 2) transform and 3) combine. This consists of copying each part of the song, transforming each part into something “new” and then combining them back into something new but based on the song or songs from before. Ferguson goes on to say that these steps: 1) copy, 2) transform and 3) combine, are the basic elements of all creativity. He goes on to use Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie as examples of great songwriters borrowing from others to make something uniquely their own. According to Ferguson, something like 66% of Dylan’s melodies was borrowed from folk singers that came before him. The lyrics were, in most cases, his, which brings us to the legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie and his take on songwriting. Woody believed that it was perfectly acceptable to “borrow” a melody here and there as long as the lyrics were original. Folk singing is mostly about telling stories anyway and Guthrie realized there are only so many chord changes that you can go through...
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...Creative Spark Talk Analysis Creativity is defined as an act or product is uncommon and is useful to society, many of us have ideas that are sometimes different and innovative, but many of us don’t realize them and do not materialize them. “There are four stages in the creative process that are the preparation stage, incubation stage, illumination stage and finally the verification stage” (Creativity Portal, 2004). “The first step is the preparation stage where your idea is investigated, then comes the incubation stage that is when you start to think on your idea unconsciously, the third step is the illumination stage that you begin to put your idea together and finally comes the verification stage that is finally the point where your idea is accepted” (Creativity Portal, 2004). From all the videos in the TED channel the one that I found most interesting was the video “Taking Imagination Seriously” by Janet Echelman that was shoot in June 2011, she was inspired when her paints went missing, which forced her to look to an unorthodox new art material. Now she makes rising, flowing, building sized sculpture with a surprisingly geeky edge. She materialized her ideas by considering and using unorthodox methods and materials in order to make giant sculptures that now stand in many cities around the world. She first had an idea back in the late 90’s to make building size sculptures out fishing net, a material she saw useful in order to materialize her vision. The first sculpture...
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...Creative Spark Talk Analysis: Schools PHL 458 September 08, 2014 Mrs. LaTrisha McAloon Creative Spark Talk Analysis: Schools Kill Creativity Belief that public education standards are suppressing the creativeness of children, thus society as whole, is gaining wide spread acceptance. The pressure that students are under to achieve in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs leaves little time for commitment to creative programs such as music, theater, dance, film, and visual arts. Society today places more value on science and math, a holdover from the Industrial Revolution and manufacturing in the United States after World War II. Diminishing Creativity In his discussion at the Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED) Conference in Monterey, CA February 2006, author and educator Sir Ken Robinson presented the argument that “We have been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers.” (Robinson, 2006). Parents have been “indoctrinated” by the same education system that now strives to quell the creative spark in todyas new generation. The emphasis of STEM in the education process removes emphasis from creative programs. Children are turnover to the education system for seven to nine hours a day. Teachers don’t want a child to be a dancer, musician, or writer and push academic achievement in STEM classes as an extrinsic motivator. For example, Doing well in math and science will put on the path to a scholarship at a great school...
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...William Boyd Creative Spark Talk Analysis PHL/458 Instructor: Robert Dubose William Boyd Creative Spark Talk Analysis PHL/458 Robert Dubose Creative Spark Creativity is a subject that is very disputable amongst psychologists. Psychologists have argued on a definition for the word creativity for many years now. Regardless of what most psychologists chose to think now, most believe that it is a creative act no matter big or small that is unusual and most likely become very useful to society. The video I watched was by John Bohannon and dancers from the Black Label Movement. The name of the video is tilted “Dance vs. PowerPoint”, a modest proposal and was filmed at TEDxBrussels, which was also posted in November 2011. John explains in this video how one of his friends tried to tell him about a science experiment and just simply couldn’t. His friend finally explains what the experiment was about to John, and then he tells his friend that “Maybe next time if you had dancers to try to better explain it will be much easier. He then tells his friend that numerous scientists have started using dancers to describe many different scientific things simply because it is more sufficient. Dancing PHD is the group of scientists that have started using dancers to explain various things. He starts to explains why it would be more productive to use dancers and instead of PowerPoint presentations. John then gives an explanation on how it is a waste...
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...Creative Spark Talk Analysis July 20th, 2013 For this assignment I chose to review Stefon Harris’ “There are no mistakes on the bandstand” TEDTalk. After review I found the concepts and narrative to be very applicable to the business realm as well as daily life. Stefon presented many different ideas and opinions to the process of creativity that are normally lost in typical creativity examples. From what I gathered, Stefon is a musician, a vibraphonist to be exact. While I am not familiar with what a vibraphonist is, I assume it focuses mainly on instruments such as the xylophone and similar instruments. Stefon is not who I would have expected as a guest on TEDTalks but his perspective is refreshing. I viewed Stefon’s on YouTube which showed the video to have been posted in December of 2011. This talk was very interesting because it used jazz music as the example to creating something organic and fresh. The driving point of the presentation was that perceived mistakes are commonly viewed as problems when in reality they should be not be seen as mistakes but as a shift in the mainstream thought process. Creativity comes in many forms so what one person sees as a mistake can instead be seen as a new way of continuing. Commonly, creativity is stifled due to perceived problems with the thought process and non-conformity is extinguished. We view these non-conformers as hiccups generally which eventually wears on a person’s creativity and ends when that person no longer wants...
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...Creative Spark Talk Analysis PHL 458 August 26, 2014 Creative Spark Talk Analysis In the 2011 TED talks video, “Taking Imagination Seriously,” artist Janet Echelman speaks to a TED audience in Long Beach, California about taking imagination seriously. She relayed her experience about how she creatively came up with an unusual art material after some of her paints disappeared on Fulbright a trip to India. According to G. Walles, a forerunner in creativity theory (Jens, 2010), there are four stages of creativity: preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification. In the video, Janet illustrates some of the stages of creativity. After arriving in Mahabalipurma, India and discovering her paintings did not make it, Janet was forced to come up with a solution to her problem. Mahabalipurma is well known for their famous sculptures, and in an attempt to resolve the dilemma, Janet demonstrates illumination when she attempts to try bronze casting. However, after realizing that making large forms would be too heavy and expensive, she sought out a different approach. She came up with the idea of using fish nets as a new method to sculpture. The idea came to her while walking on the beach and seeing village fishermen bundle their nets into mounds of sand (Echelman, 2011). She collaborated with the fishermen to make her first sculpture titled “Wide Hips.” Janet utilizes preparation by studying craft traditions and collaborating with artists in Lithuania. She came up with the...
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...Creative Spark Talk Analysis Sonya Walls PHL 458 December 2014 Creative Spark Talk Analysis In the video, Elizabeth Gilbert, a 40-year old author, explains how she began her start in writing. This speech takes place in California, February 2009, in front of hundreds of people. There, Elizabeth digs deep into her past to convey to the audience “the elusive creative genius.” As a teenager, Elizabeth knew exactly what she wanted to do. Her dream was to become a professional writer and she felt determined to achieve her goal. Being looked at as a far-fetched idea, people would often ask her if she felt that it would be the right career for her. She would always respond with a yes but fear began to grow. She was afraid, but she still had a vision to be what she felt like was her calling. If she didn’t take a chance and try, she would never know if she could achieve it. She ignored everyone and began to pursue it anyway. As she began to research the “arts” what was revealed to her was simply shocking. According to Elizabeth, everyone that pursued the arts or were trying to pursue the arts were considered to be mentally unstable. To Elizabeth, this statement had to come from a source where creativity was not present. Elizabeth felt that people who pursued the arts were often misunderstood and their thought process was different from the average person. Elizabeth explained that Romans felt that their creativity came from an outside source, For example, if there was an...
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...valuable in that you use your discovery skills often enough to get innovative ideas that frequently improve the efficiency of your organization. Your Assessment Averages 5.2 C ourage To Innovate Detail 5.3 Discovery Skills Detail 5.6 Delivery Skills Detail Discovery Skills E+i Discovery-Delivery Skills Matrix Your Profile Delivery Skills *All scores calculated out of 7.0 *All scores calculated out of 7.0 1 / 12 atkins06@nsuok.edu Your Courage To Innovate 5.0 5.7 5.0 + Challenging The Status Quo Risk Taking + Creative Confidence Your Courage To Innovate 5.2 6.2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Why do innovators question, observe, network, and experiment more than other individuals? Successful innovators consistently show the C ourage to Innovate, which means they: 1) challenge the status quo 2) take smart risks to make change happen 3) feel confident in their creative capacity Each component of Courage t o Innovat e mat t ers. Each plays a key role in building t he mot ivat ional f orce t o make change happen. Your Average Score Successful Innovators *All scores calculated out of 7.0 2 / 12 atkins06@nsuok.edu Your Discovery Skills 4.8 5.5 5.5 5.8 5.0 + Questioning Observing + Networking + Experimenting + Associating Your Discovery Skills Discovery Skills refer to the set of skills that contribute to one’s ability to generate novel The five discovery competencies are comprised of the following:...
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...Analysis of Leaders in Innovation Introduction Innovation, is a term used to describe new ideas and new beginnings. One who introduced this concept to a failing organization, was an innovative leader named Vineet Nayar. In 2007, Nayar was named CEO of IT Services and Outsourcing Firm HLC Technologies. With his strategic vision and global outlook, he catapulted the then dismal firm into the leader of the organizational pack in a short amount of time. In the beginning of Nayar's 2010 article "A Maverick CEO Explains How He Persuaded His Team to leap into the Future”, he describes his appointment as President of HLC technologies as a “leap to safety.” (Nayar, 2010) It became apparent that there was something he needed to do to change the interface of this company. He began to create a vision, but knew that it would not take place without some major adjustments. Vineet formulated the” employee first, customer second approach” and took HCL to be one of the most successful IT outsourcing businesses in the world. It worked magic at HCL and the company created 34% percent revenues even at the time of turbulence (sparks.wisdomjobs...
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...Contents I. Introduction 3 II. Triple bottom line analysis 3 1. Profit 3 2. Planet 3 2.1 Environmental stewardship 3 2.2 Financial contribution to the planet safeguard. 3 3. People 4 3.1 Employee benefits 4 3.2 Empowering African women (gender balancing) 4 3.3 A new perspective on aids 4 III. Stakeholders analysis 5 1. Company analysis 5 1.1 Strengths 5 1.2 Weaknesses 5 1.3 Oliberte’s key internal stakeholders 5 2. Community analysis 6 2.1 The government of Ethiopia 6 2.2 Certifying bodies 6 3.1 Main customers 7 3.2 Mint footwear san Diego 7 4. Competitor analysis 7 4.1 Some competitors 7 4.2 TOMS 7 IV. Conclusion 7 V. References notes and Bibliography 8 ANALYZING OLIBERTE LIMITED’S SUSTAINABLE MARKETING I. Introduction Oliberte Limited is a Canada based B-corporation specialized in leather shoes manufacturing. The particularity of this company is that its shoes are entirely crafted in Africa with hormones free livestock material. The following essay is an analysis of Oliberte’s 3BL and stakeholders. II. Triple bottom line analysis 1. Profit Oliberte started its business in 2009 with a sales figure as high as 200 pairs of shoes. The sales increased up to 10,000 pairs in 2011 and 15,000 in 2012 with the launching of its own new factory in Addis Ababa. Though the company claims on its official website to have exceeded its sales projection, Mr Dehtiar the founder and president of Oliberte was expecting the 2012 sales to be between...
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...Analysis of Leaders in Innovation Capella University Introduction Innovation is a term used to describe new ideas and new beginnings. One who introduced this concept to a failing organization, was an innovative leader named Vineet Nayar. In 2007, Nayar was named CEO of IT Services and Outsourcing Firm HLC Technologies. With his strategic vision and global outlook, he catapulted the then dismal firm into the leader of the organizational pack in a short amount of time. In the beginning of Nayar's 2010 article "A Maverick CEO Explains How He Persuaded His Team to leap into the Future”, he describes his appointment as President of HLC technologies as a “leap to safety.” (Nayar, 2010) It became apparent that there was something he needed to do to change the interface of this company. He began to create a vision, but knew that it would not take place without some major adjustments. When one thinks of innovation, it is a term used to described new ideas and new beginnings. One who introduced this concept to a failing organization, was an innovative leader named Vineet Nayar. In 2007, Nayar was named CEO of IT Services and Outsourcing Firm HLC Technologies. With his strategic vision and global outlook, he catapulted the then dismal firm into the leader of the organizational pack in a short amount of time. Vineet formulated the” employee first, customer second approach” and took HCL to be one of the most successful IT outsourcing businesses in the world. It worked magic at HCL and...
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...Managerial Economics Course Owner: Sadananda Prusty, Ph. D Name of Faculty Members to Teach this Course (To be mentioned after final course allocation) Institute of Management Technology Ghaziabad Course Background and Learning Objectives: “Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.” So wrote Alfred Marshall, the great nineteenth-century economist, in his textbook, Principles of Economics. Although we have learned much about the economy since Marshall’s time, this definition of economics is as true today as it was in 1890, when the first edition of his text was published. In recent years, there are many questions about the economy that might spark any one’s curiosity. Why are apartments so hard to find in Mumbai City? Why do airlines charge less for a round-trip ticket? Why executive class airfare is costlier than economic class? Why are jobs easy to find in some years and hard to find in others? Why a package tour costs less as compared to individual booking of air ticket and hotel? Moreover, as one go about his/her life, he/she make many economic decisions. During student carrier one has to decide how many years to stay in school. After joining in a job, one has to decide how much of his/her income to spend, how much to save, and how to invest his/her savings. When running a small business or a large corporation, and one will decide what prices to charge for his/her products. The...
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...Benjamin Franklin Biography Born in January of 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin is an iconic figure in American history and throughout the world (Gaustad 2003). Among other things, he was one of the most well known politicians and civil activists of the Enlightenment Era in North America. He was known for his role as Ambassador to France, and his work to gain French military assistance during the American Revolution. Franklin was also one of the Founding Fathers who signed the Declaration of Independence and helped draft the United States Constitution. Benjamin Franklin was extremely brilliant, but at the same time considered by many as self-effacing and approachable (Essig, 2006). Despite his great involvement in civics and politics later in his life, Franklin was first a businessman and a scientist. Franklin’s scientific work and business ventures lead him to become one of the most recognizable innovators of all time. According to Isaacson (2003), one of the main factors that caused Franklin to be thought of as a genius was the varied nature of his interests. He became involved in projects that ranged from civics to science, and he never took himself too seriously. The earliest known invention of Benjamin Franklin was the development of a copperplate press in 1728 that used ornate designs, and different colors of ink to make it more difficult for counterfeiters to forge paper money from the state of New Jersey. It was also during this period that...
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