Creativity improves pupils' self-esteem, motivation and achievement
Pupils who are encouraged to think creatively and independently become:
more interested in discovering things for themselves
more open to new ideas
keen to work with others to explore ideas
willing to work beyond lesson time when pursuing an idea or vision.
As a result, their pace of learning, levels of achievement and self-esteem increase
Many managers and policy-makers have misconceptions about innovation that can lead to all kinds of mistakes being made. The first thing to say is that innovation is not invention. Invention is the creation of a new idea and its reduction to practice. Innovation is the commercialisation of inventions. Innovation is, furthermore, often mistaken for research and development. R&D is an element of innovation but it is only that, one element.
Innovation is really about economically valuable novelty. It is about new products, processes and services and all the scientific, technological, organisational, financial and business activities that produce them. Innovation is complex and risky. Huge amounts of money are invested in innovations, with companies like IBM sometimes betting the company in their belief in new products. Investments like this are risky because innovations fail more often than not. Worldwide, only one in ten new products succeed in the market. Of the roughly 6000 new chemical substances currently on trial for their potential as new pharmaceuticals, perhaps only one will become a successful new drug. There is also a good deal of research that shows that billions of dollars spent on new equipment like machine tools and robots and so on since the 1980s have been wasted.
Innovation is also risky because it is so unpredictable. Lord Kelvin, who is President of the prestigious Royal Society once said that heavier-than-air flying machines were impossible, and the Chairman of the major computer company, DEC, said that no-one would want a computer in their home. Very knowledgeable people can get their predictions in this field hopelessly wrong.
Innovations often succeed in unpredictable ways. The computer and the Internet were developed as tools for scientific research with no idea of their mass market appeal. When the laser was developed it really had no commercial applications, and now it has a wide range of uses from surgery to CD players. When 3M developed the Post-It Note, it pasted the clever invention, the non-sticky glue, on noticeboards, to which ordinary pieces of paper could be attached. It took some time before it was realised that it would be much better if the glue was put on the now ubiquitous little notes.
Creative Thinking, Innovation, Creativity Training
#1 by Bolan on May 31, 2009 - 6:30 am
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Creativity improves pupils' self-esteem, motivation and achievement
Pupils who are encouraged to think creatively and independently become:
more interested in discovering things for themselves
more open to new ideas
keen to work with others to explore ideas
willing to work beyond lesson time when pursuing an idea or vision.
As a result, their pace of learning, levels of achievement and self-esteem increase
Many managers and policy-makers have misconceptions about innovation that can lead to all kinds of mistakes being made. The first thing to say is that innovation is not invention. Invention is the creation of a new idea and its reduction to practice. Innovation is the commercialisation of inventions. Innovation is, furthermore, often mistaken for research and development. R&D is an element of innovation but it is only that, one element.
Innovation is really about economically valuable novelty. It is about new products, processes and services and all the scientific, technological, organisational, financial and business activities that produce them. Innovation is complex and risky. Huge amounts of money are invested in innovations, with companies like IBM sometimes betting the company in their belief in new products. Investments like this are risky because innovations fail more often than not. Worldwide, only one in ten new products succeed in the market. Of the roughly 6000 new chemical substances currently on trial for their potential as new pharmaceuticals, perhaps only one will become a successful new drug. There is also a good deal of research that shows that billions of dollars spent on new equipment like machine tools and robots and so on since the 1980s have been wasted.
Innovation is also risky because it is so unpredictable. Lord Kelvin, who is President of the prestigious Royal Society once said that heavier-than-air flying machines were impossible, and the Chairman of the major computer company, DEC, said that no-one would want a computer in their home. Very knowledgeable people can get their predictions in this field hopelessly wrong.
Innovations often succeed in unpredictable ways. The computer and the Internet were developed as tools for scientific research with no idea of their mass market appeal. When the laser was developed it really had no commercial applications, and now it has a wide range of uses from surgery to CD players. When 3M developed the Post-It Note, it pasted the clever invention, the non-sticky glue, on noticeboards, to which ordinary pieces of paper could be attached. It took some time before it was realised that it would be much better if the glue was put on the now ubiquitous little notes.
References :
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s98911.htm
http://www.ncaction.org.uk/creativity/whyis.htm