Literature Review - Final Paper

Here is a link to my Literature Review and Final Paper. 

Double Entry 11

All I Really Need to Know (About Creative Thinking) I Learned (By Studying How Children Learn) in Kindergarten

“I think of it as a spiraling  process in which children imagine what they want to do,  create a project based on their ideas, play with their  creations, share their ideas and creations with others,  reflect on their experiences – all of which leads them to imagine new ideas and new projects” (Resnik).

I absolutely love this quote. I am a strong believer in project based learning. Students need to be able to explore their creativity. The process described here is the process that happens in work environments, so why shouldn't we be teaching our students how to go through the steps in the educational system. I have said this many times of the course of the semester, but as an educator it is our job to prepare the students for the “real world” and teaching them to memorize facts and reproduce them on a test is not preparing them for the world they are going to enter. We need to teach our students how to think, how to create, how to share, and how to reflect. This is the process that each assignment should go through, and by the time our students are ready to graduate from high school they will have this process down pat – it will be as simple as walking or riding a bike.

Works Cited:

Resnik, M. (n.d.). All I really Need to Know (About Creative Thinking) I learned (By Studying How Children Learn) in Kindergarden. MIT Media Lab .

Resource:

When I was searching for a resource article, I decided to put the process into Google and see what search results I could find. I was surprise to find this website. It is a wiki talking about the benefits of learning using scratch in the classroom.