Activity 5, Part 1

I was a little overwhelmed by all the "new items" on Google Reader. There was a lot to scan and skim, but I was able to navigate through the information. One item of found interesting was on Students 2.0. The blog/post I read was a student's writing about creativity vs. art.

The student makes an excellent point about creativity and art. The post was very interesting, but one part I enjoyed the most was where he said "...Actually, creativity and art are not so much polar opposites as two sides of the same coin.Sick of the casual metaphors yet? Creativity is used to think of new ideas and sources of ideas. Art is used to translate those ideas into presentable forms. To create a brilliant work, both creativity and art must be used...."( Morgante Pell). I liked how he talked about art and creativity, and that we need both to make brilliant work. I feel sometimes as teachers, we get so bogged down with meeting standards and giving tests, that we forget about letting students show their creativity. In his post, he talks more about how students are not really given the chance to use creativity and how schools fail to see that we need to teach students both the "art"and the "creativity" of learning.

The post was well written and you can tell a lot of thought went into his post. I found it inspiring that a high school student wrote it, and expressed how we, as educators, need to foster a student's creativity.