1. Creativity is the Most Important Thing We Can Teach Our Children in the New Millennium Bonnie Cramond The Department of Educational Psychology & Instructional Technology The University of Georgia
18. Top Five European Countries and the U.S. in Number of Patents in 2001 NA Approx. 300,000 U.S.A. % of Total # of Applications Country 4.88 5,371 Netherlands 3.46 3,808 Switzerland 4.41 4,853 U. K. 6.18 6,802 France 19.37 21,308 Germany
19. Patents filed… 591 137 115 Per 1000 researchers 3.48 2824 357,379 Japan 0.65 482 132,767 USA 0.70 263 98,986 EU Per million Euro in R&D Per million inhabitants in 1998
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Editor's Notes
In 1981, R. Buckminster Fuller reflected on his childhood at the turn of the last century. He recalled that as people tried to predict the future in the new century, they could not begin to conceive of automobiles, electrons, travel to the moon, or even air wars as reality. Only about 1% of the world was literate, and fewer still thought of humanity in world terms. We, too, are poised on the brink of change in the new millennium and cannot presume that we are more precognitive about what lies ahead than were our predecessors. However, one prediction that was true then will undoubtedly remain true: successful adaptation to world change and the continued civilization and enrichment of our world depend on creative endeavors.
Richness-- referring to curriculum’s depth, multiple layers of meaning, and multiple possibilities of interpretation Recursion (the reflective interaction with the environment, others, culture, and with one ’ s own knowledge); 3. Relations (the making of connections, and the understanding that our immediate perceptions integrate into a larger cultural, economic and cosmic matrix); and 4. Rigor (conceived as a dialectic between the complexity of indeterminacy and critical interpretation).
inventive creativity • is exhibited in mathematics, science, and social arenas • recognizes and identifies problems that may or may not be apparent to others, but that when solved result in an improvement in the domain Expressive creativity • the impetus for the arts • results not from the recognition of a problem, but from the need to communicate with others.
Inventor-multimillionaire “inventrepreneur” Didn’t graduate from college Holds more than 150 U.S. and foreign patents, many of them for innovative medical devices
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Adaptive Geopolitical restructuring , diminishing natural resources,. population growth, Pollution, war against disease , Inter-and intra- national conflicts , conflicts due to racial, ethnic, economic, cultural, and religious differences
According to Torrance, “When a person has no learned or practiced solution to a problem, some degree of creativity is required”
http://www.european-patent-office.org/epo/an_rep/2001/images/tbls/tbl7_1_1.gif http://www.industry.gov.au/department/annualreport01_02/ip_australia/needs.htmlhttp://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/annual/1998/a98r-2.htm (rate for 2000 + 15% as indicated increase every year) http://www.aful.org/wws/arc/patents/2001-12/msg00040.html
Creativity in the future is a prediction informed by trends and current knowledge of forces that will likely impact both adaptive and expressive creativity in the near future.
Expressive Subject matter --Spanish Civil War--Guernica, For whom the bell tolls
• A young composer, Yasunori Mitsuda, currently writes his hauntingly beautiful music solely for video games (Feichter, 2000). Perhaps this is why futurists are predicting a 21st century renaissance of the arts.
Many current beliefs and theories will have to be reexamined in light of the changing milieu. That is to say, creativity is not only a complex system, but it is a dynamic one. Creativity research must be likewise dynamic and alert to the changes to come. This is a time of drastic change, we must all be learners.
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