On Creativity
28-August-2006
permalink-
Img 0767-1
[ Download ]
(IMG_0767-1.JPG
-
2.19 Mb
)
Preview
Creativity seems to be rearing its head in one way or another lately.
First a bit of practical creativity. I made a presentation on e-Portfolios in a Beer Keller in Salzburg. OK - so the beer keeler wasn't so well adapted for teaching and learning. But upside down beer crates do a fine job as a stand for the data projector.
I raised the ability to create as a key facet of digital competence for developing e-Portfolios. I was challenged by a person - whose name I did not get - who asked what role creativity plays in e-Portfolios. Now I can see the role of creativity with the full use of multi media for [presentations - but am not sure how creativity is manifested in the more humdrum everyday activities of recording and reflection. I think the question warrants further thought.
Anyway, I had forgotten all about this until yesterday - traveling home after another five days on the road and reading John Steinbeck's East of Eden. Steinbeck says: "our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Noething was ever created by two men. there are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, thre group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything."
Ignoring Steinbeck's use of the word man to describe men and women - his point is interesting.
Technorati Tags: creativity
){kind=link}