I've seen Ken on his Ted talk which I've embedded below:
His talk was quite entertaining and followed somewhat his talk from Ted. A few of the thoughts or points from his talk:
- $3.5B spent in California on state school system - $9B spent on prison system
- Creativity can be facilitated and supported to foster innovation
- Audience rated themselves average roughly of 7 in creativity and 7 in intelligence
- 73% give themselves different marks - tend to believe that there is a difference between creativity and intelligence
- Creativity and intelligence are intimately related - highest form of intellectual exercise is creativity
- Capacity to think of lots of ideas - divergent thinking
- Genius level among 3 - 5 year olds in divergent thinking - 98%
- At ages 8-10 - 32%
- 13-15 - 10%
- 25+ - 2%
- Education teaches you that there is one answer, its in the back, don't look, and don't talk to anyone else either
- We encourage collaboration outside the classroom
- Misconception about creativity - I'm not creative. If someone says "I'm not creative" it doesn't mean they are not capable of becoming creative.
- Can be creative about anything - not just arts - including things like math, etc.
- Technology fundamentally changes learning
- Creativity is the way to compete in a flat world (my words not his)
- Creativity is a practical process
- Intelligence is tremendously diverse, intensely dynamic, connections between domains, distinct
- Real question is not how intelligent your are but how you are intelligent
- And not how creative you are but how you are creative
- How do you compose great groups in organizations that can be intelligent and creative
- How do you promote culture that will be creative
- Think of yourself as a farmer - you can't make a plant - you must create the conditions where plants (people) will flourish
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