{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"50699988","dateCreated":"1329706379","smartDate":"Feb 19, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"dawnyaddicted2life","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/dawnyaddicted2life","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1318117565\/dawnyaddicted2life-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/integratingculture-at-nyu.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/50699988"},"dateDigested":1532760221,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"CREATIVITY: ART & MUSIC","description":"Dawny Chin
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\nGrowing up I simply loved Art period and any assignment that also asked of drawings, clips, collages, sketches to be included. I didn't love every subject in school but I sure loved art. The assignments were usually the typical calling of grade-level curriculum. We were never asked to create a 7-foot skyscraper modeled after the Chrysler Building, but from these simple task assignments I could feel my imagination running away already before she was done talking about the requirements. In integrated curriculum art seemed to help me complete assignments say in Science or Math. This did not mean I was able to more simply "beef" up the volume of work handed in by adding art to my writing. That's too easy. It, instead, helped me understand topography in Earth Science, or volume in Math simply because by drawing it first--I was actually able to LEARN my way through the reading and was abel to successfully reinforce what I learned in the writing required in the assignments as well. I know I am a visual learner and it becomes an easy gateway to learning in otehr ways as well!","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"50700072","body":"For music, I felt it was less prompting of my creativity in practicing how to play a piece (violin) the way EVERYONE is also supposed to play it. But in later years I discovered that when you have harnesssed the fundamentals, you actually can play a piece completely different than someone else--simply by the feeling and intensity of emotions you put into it! Creativity here ties in hand-in-hand with learning how to read music and learning new skills integrated in the arts as well. Creativity can be visual and auditory!","dateCreated":"1329706588","smartDate":"Feb 19, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"dawnyaddicted2life","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/dawnyaddicted2life","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1318117565\/dawnyaddicted2life-lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"50525008","dateCreated":"1329299479","smartDate":"Feb 15, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"klb409","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/klb409","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/integratingculture-at-nyu.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/50525008"},"dateDigested":1532760221,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Creativity","description":"I think I tend to associate creativity mostly with art. However, looking over the readings it is mentioned that creativity is looking outside the box. I am in a 4th grade CTT and if you were to look at creativity in a strictly artistic sense it might be nearly impossible to provide the students with a number of opportunities to express their creativity with crayons and paper. However, if you view creativity in the later sense, it becomes much easier to integrate. For example, for a social studies lesson I taught I wanted students to understand the idea of self-government. So I had them work in groups to come up with a game (one they already knew or just created) and they had to explain the rules and show the class how it would work without any one person, like a teacher, monitoring it. The games that some of the students came up with were great. They may not have worked perfectly and some of them were a bit silly or crazy, but the students got the point and they were really proud of their work. Rewarding students for this kind of creativity can be difficult when they are going to be tested on something very specific, but it should be encouraged as much as possible. Students are much more engaged when they're creative juices are allowed to flow.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"50363280","dateCreated":"1328899641","smartDate":"Feb 10, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"kac546","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/kac546","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/integratingculture-at-nyu.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/50363280"},"dateDigested":1532760221,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Creativity","description":"I do not recall much room for creativity during my elementary, middle, and high school years...with the exception of art class. Besides for art, I vaguely remember any opportunities in my classes to "think outside the box."
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\nAs a kid who loved arts and crafts I feel like I would be able to remember projects where I could apply my creative side. However, when I think back on my "creative" experiences in school I can only remember the following art projects; making a mosaic mirror, a clay hotplate, as well as a landscape painting of an ocean on canvas.
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\nReflecting back on the lack of room for creativity in my early schooling makes me wonder if I would have enjoyed subjects like reading, writing, and math if I was given the opportunity to apply my hands-on\/arts and craft side.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"50247468","dateCreated":"1328722973","smartDate":"Feb 8, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"KatherineROD","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/KatherineROD","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1334072334\/KatherineROD-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/integratingculture-at-nyu.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/50247468"},"dateDigested":1532760221,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Creativity","description":"When reading the art standards and from having the discussion in class, I realized the importance of being trained to teach art. Art is crucial in invoking a positive sense of creativity in students. Our students should become aware of the art surrounding them and be changed through it. Art releases anxiety, further expands a child's horizons, and even provides them with crucial steps in bettering their classwork.
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\nIn my childhood education, I did not have the joy of learning how to finger-paint or make sketch. The Catholic school I went to focused on teaching us the necessary core subjects we needed to know for exams. I learned about math before I knew how to draw a portrait of myself. However, when the time came to take art we learned about the important painters throughout history. Of course, Picasso, Michaelangelo, Rafael, etc were on this list of artists we studied. We took notes on their methods and memorized their famous paintings in fourth grade. Yet, we never painted or firsthand used their methods. I believe this was not the way to go. If our teacher wanted us to learn more about these painters and sculptors then she should have asked us to do it ourselves.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"50364794","body":"Katherine, it is so sad that exams get in the way of permitting creativity, I have seen this become even more popular since we have started student teaching. There is such a heavy emphasis on standardized testing today, and the reality is so unfortunate. Who could say the the next Picasso wasn't sitting in that classroom, with "no time" for art?
\nK. Connolly","dateCreated":"1328900774","smartDate":"Feb 10, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"kac546","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/kac546","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"50525060","body":"It is true that as simple as art may seem when it comes to children, it is still something that we need to learn to teach. We have to learn the balance of giving students directions and allowing them to work independently and hands-on. While we may need to teach about historical figures as you were, I most definitely agree that it is important to also talk about the art around us, in our everyday lives, as well.","dateCreated":"1329299798","smartDate":"Feb 15, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"klb409","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/klb409","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"50245030","dateCreated":"1328721020","smartDate":"Feb 8, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"colleen.ouyang","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/colleen.ouyang","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/integratingculture-at-nyu.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/50245030"},"dateDigested":1532760221,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Creativity","description":" In my own educational experiences, creativity was associated with innovations or ideas outside of the normal box. Art, technology and writing were the sole subjects that could allow any sort of creativity. One memory in which I was praised for creativity was in 5th grade Art class in which my group chose and created a huge collage of an amusement park where every little person had a colored hole-punched head and construction paper clothes. During middle school, students could be creative in computer class when we made powerpoint-based music slideshows and even our own websites. In Brooklyn Technical High School, my 9th grade technology teacher pushed his students to inquire and discover such that each of us made unique work from pop-up books to posters to adult-size cardboard chairs. In that same year, my English teacher emphasized our individualism and we were constantly being valued and seen as creative in our sketch notebooks. Everyone created something special, and therefore everyone was creative in their own way.
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\n Yet in sophomore year, the technology and English class required conformity and good work was seen as work that followed the textbook design plan in a neat presentation. Most classrooms had no room for something different than what is the \u201cright\u201d way. Students who had difficulty seeing that one-perspective method would face difficulties. For example, in precalculus, you had to solve the problem using this theory and manipulating the algebra according to that particular rule. In science and history, those who did well had to be able to remember or understand information in the way that was presented.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"50244278","dateCreated":"1328720492","smartDate":"Feb 8, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"NicoleHarmantzis","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/NicoleHarmantzis","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/integratingculture-at-nyu.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/50244278"},"dateDigested":1532760221,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Where did it come from?","description":"I really love being creative and enjoy encouraging my students in the fields of art, music, drama, etc. I love going to their art classes or watching them perform plays. The beauty in the arts is overwhelming to me. However, I cannot seem to pinpoint many pecific in my education that helped me develop this appreciation of creativity. I remember in 2nd grade, we had to create three-dimensional buildings and I decided to make a replica of our school. It was a huge box covered in brown paper, adorned with a flag and surrounded by mini trees I had as toys. I do remember drawing a picture to accompany a paragraph. I used fabric to make clothes in the drawing and a red feather for the parrot. I think that materials like these \u2013 fabric, feathers, sequins, glitter, crayons, paint \u2013 that were made available at home\/school helped me develop my creativity.
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\nI was also lucky enough to take trips to museums, participate in a ballroom dancing program in 5th grade, be able to perform in a variety of plays over the years, to take part in music classes which ultimately led me to play the flute in the school band. I think was able to take advantage of these opportunities and developed a strong passion for the arts in a variety of forms.
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\nAlso, many of my teachers gave us a great deal of freedom to show our work (aka, to show our creativity). In this way, we could use the means of expression that we were most comfortable with and I was able to get ideas from my peers. In addition to creating my own work, I enjoyed seeing how my classmates completed the same assignment. These ideas would give me inspiration for future projects.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"50245668","body":"I love how you can reflect so positively about these moments when art was integrated, thus allowing for creativity. Your last paragraph reminded me of what Sandra had said about having different tasks and allowing children to choose whatever way possible to show their comprehension. I am positive that you will definitely find such ways to use art and generate an environment for creativity.
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\n-Colleen","dateCreated":"1328721451","smartDate":"Feb 8, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"colleen.ouyang","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/colleen.ouyang","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"50241256","dateCreated":"1328718558","smartDate":"Feb 8, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"ds2605","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/ds2605","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/integratingculture-at-nyu.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/50241256"},"dateDigested":1532760221,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"How We See Things","description":"In each chapter of my education journey, there had been opportunities where students could explore his or her inner creativity. At P.S. 41, we had the chance to use materials like clay or paper mache to create objects that can be of use. I made a bowl that I could put materials in or a globe of the Earth to remind me of what the world looks like. However, when I entered middle school the dynamics of creativity has changed.
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\nIt had gotten more competitive. I realized how well my friends used to draw anime figures as if they went to Art school and came back. I did feel a little discouraged because I could not meet their level of expertise. As well, teachers had a great influence on how they perceived my work.
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\nIn high school, I enjoyed the art journey the most, surprisingly, because the school tied art with history. I had the opportunity to learn about Chuck Close, how he contributed his style as a disabled person, and allowed us the space to experiment with his style. In order for students to become comfortable with their own style of creativity, educators need to allow space for learning, processing, and exploration. It can reduce the fears and anxieties students had build up when grades or competition has surfaced.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"50232538","dateCreated":"1328713378","smartDate":"Feb 8, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"ymc227","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/ymc227","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1317591551\/ymc227-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/integratingculture-at-nyu.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/50232538"},"dateDigested":1532760221,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Creativity in my Education","description":"Creativity, to me, has always meant one's own original idea. Creativity is seen as something that not all people can come up with in the same ways. When I was growing up going to public school, I was told by teacher to be creative when it came to drawing, writing a story, solving a problem or even when trying to come with ideas for things. I was always a good student and got high grades in all of my tests and exams because I knew what teachers expected from me. When it came to things like Art and class projects, I found it difficult because my teachers did not tell us what exactly it is that they wanted. They just said, "Be creative." I didn't know what to do and I was stuck because I worried that they would end up not liking my ideas or work as a matter of fact.
\n As I got older, I realized that my teachers were telling us to be creative so that we can make use of our imagination. I mean, when do we really get a chance to express ourselves in school? I now see the importance of creativity in student's education and it is something that should be advertised in all areas of education.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"50246316","body":"I really like the way you put the difficulty when forced to do something creative: "I found it difficult because my teachers did not tell us what exactly it is that they wanted". After years and countless hours of asking students to simply repeat, teachers suddenly request students to be creative - but students have already set school as a place that does not permit this imaginative energy. When students frequently are asked to be creative and led to do divergent and convergent thinking, they perform to a much higher expectation.
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\n-Colleen","dateCreated":"1328721950","smartDate":"Feb 8, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"colleen.ouyang","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/colleen.ouyang","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"50525018","body":"I think its interesting that you said it was hard at first when you were given creative power without much instruction. Students are so used to being given very specific instructions and are expected to produce work that follows a set of guidelines, that it can be difficult when they are given that kind of freedom. It may be something that we may need to help teach students even if it seems as though it should come naturally.","dateCreated":"1329299619","smartDate":"Feb 15, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"klb409","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/klb409","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"50700222","body":"I think a lot of modeling of very different results of the same art assignment can be introduced to the students. In writing and teaching my Social Studies unit on government, I made a poster-piece of the poster they were also expected to hand in as their final project. But I also included past student work in order to show them that creativity is no one-way to do things as well as reassuring them that all ways of drawing and artwork is creatrive--as long as they made it then it does not matter! I encouraged students to clip pictores if they were scared to show the class hand-drawings. I encouraged others to make a cool video of their findings if they did not want it down on paper. Assessment is not what is always what is down on paper, but what LEARNING was actually absorbed, integrated and expressed.","dateCreated":"1329706965","smartDate":"Feb 19, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"dawnyaddicted2life","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/dawnyaddicted2life","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1318117565\/dawnyaddicted2life-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"50700276","body":"Dawny","dateCreated":"1329707086","smartDate":"Feb 19, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"dawnyaddicted2life","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/dawnyaddicted2life","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1318117565\/dawnyaddicted2life-lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"50224746","dateCreated":"1328704106","smartDate":"Feb 8, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"ejd283","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/ejd283","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/integratingculture-at-nyu.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/50224746"},"dateDigested":1532760221,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Creativity","description":"I was fortunate enough to grow up in house where my parents supplied many different experiences for creativity, from allowing us to go crazy with paints or taking me to museums. I can\u2019t say that my school experience was similar; usually supplies were kept under lock and key. I have a clear memory of being in 3rd grade art class and having the art teacher scream at me because I was pressing to hard on the oil pastels; this left me afraid of her and art class. Going forward art was typically an experience that I shut down for during school. I suppose I did not really become comfortable with different art forms until freshman year of high school when I had the opportunity to select what type of electives I wanted to take. I feel that most of my creativity comes from my home life, I remember asking my mom for buttons and fabric and glue and making all sorts of things. I remember the only rule about the stuff in the house was I had to ask first. I feel because my family was open about exploration that creativity really bloomed at home for me. Elizabeth Diamant","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"50700394","body":"Dawny
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\nI am happy to hear that your home fostered the creativity of art for you. The school portion seems to be a ahrder road for you when you were younger. Freedom from teachers is what attracts and sustains learning in children--especially with such a free-forming avenue like art. The teacher might have been too distracted in the appropriation of her materials and may have lost sight of the lessons to be learned instead. In progressive learning schools such as Steinhardt, art is simply everywhere in the classrooms, hallways and building. There is no lock and key because it is the philosophy of the school to make art and creativity a vital learning avenue, and they would feel this would be a disjustice to any student. Sometimes it is simply the philosphy of the school and down to the teacher how "creativity" is actually harnessed and expressed.","dateCreated":"1329707415","smartDate":"Feb 19, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"dawnyaddicted2life","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/dawnyaddicted2life","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1318117565\/dawnyaddicted2life-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"50700420","body":"*Rudolph Steiner School in the Upper East Side of Manhattan.","dateCreated":"1329707512","smartDate":"Feb 19, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"dawnyaddicted2life","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/dawnyaddicted2life","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1318117565\/dawnyaddicted2life-lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"50221144","dateCreated":"1328683424","smartDate":"Feb 7, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"brittanyhan","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/brittanyhan","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/integratingculture-at-nyu.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/50221144"},"dateDigested":1532760222,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"creativity","description":"I remember being told to be creative, but never feeling or viewing myself as creative. I still don't think that I am that creative. I think it would have been better to create something, be creative, and develop my creativity without feeling the pressure of being told to be creative. What does it even mean to be creative? Aren't we all creative in our own ways to varying degrees? During school I didn't really view myself as an artist or a writer and those are the main domains that creativity is focused and emphasized. Even when I try to think of activities or lessons I did during school that integrated and involved creativity I can't think of an authentic experience. I don't think that being told to draw a picture for the story I wrote develops my creativity. As a child and even now, being told to be creative makes me anxious is a weird way. I don't really understand it, but hopefully through the readings on creativity I will gain a better sense of my feelings towards my experiences.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"50232998","body":"I agree with you Brittany. I think that we as human beings are creative in our own unique ways. Our thoughts and ideas are forms of creativity, if you tell me. I used to find that big artists such as Mozart, DaVinci, Steven Spielberg were some of the people who are considered creative (and I still do!) but now I realize that they are creative but that we can also be creative too even if our names are not renowned.","dateCreated":"1328713725","smartDate":"Feb 8, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"ymc227","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/ymc227","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1317591551\/ymc227-lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]}],"more":true},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}