"geographers" poems - Hello Poetry

I would argue that what is happening here isn’t the crushing of creativity but the addition of knowledge. As people get more knowledgeable they are better able to evaluate their ideas and sift out the ones that won’t work. Looking at the quantity of ideas for the use of a paperclip tells you nothing about creativity but the quality of the ideas might. If we want pupils to be good at problem solving we need to give them a lot of knowledge with which to solve problems. There is no generic problem solving short cut we can use. The problem solving skills of “I need to put up a bookcase but have lost the instructions” is very different from the problem solving skills of “We need to resolve the conflict in the Middle East.” I we spent less time trying to find these short cuts we might have a lot fewer wonky bookcases and a little more chance of peace. I can’t speak for all subjects and contexts but in secondary school geography we are constantly problem solving. It is what Geographers do but each problem needs a wide body of very specific knowledge. We look at how they would solve the problem of the UK’s energy mix, how they would improve housing in informal settlements and yes, even how to solve the problems in the Middle East (if someone without a knowledge of catchment hydrology tries to pontificate on the issue I wouldn’t give them the time of day). The same applies to “creativity”. The ability to create is an important and wonderful thing. Music, art and drama should play a full and important part in the curriculum but they aren’t about teaching something as generic as “creativity”. They are about teaching the skills to allow you to be creative in that particular domain. Learning to express your creativity in art is unlikely to help you pick up the trombone and learning how to write is unlikely to make your interpretive dance any less awkward. If you think that these things can be taught as stand alone generic skills (I assume you there is a 54% chance you are) then please do send me a lesson plan because I would love to see how it is done. Conclusion I think the term “21st century skills” is a nonsense. The generic skills that people will need in this century will be the same as they have needed in all of them because they are the things that make us human. I don’t think they can be taught in isolation. I don’t think we get better at “problem solving” by solving problems in different domains or better at “creativity” in one domain by practicing another. Schools play a role in preparing children for the future and that role is to ensure they leave us as knowledgeable and well informed adults.

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Aug 26, 2019

Aug 26, 2019 at 1:05 PM UTC

MCCONNELL19

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I would argue that what is happening here isn’t the crushing of creativity but the addition of knowledge. As people get more knowledgeable they are better able to evaluate their ideas and sift out the ones that won’t work. Looking at the quantity of ideas for the use of a paperclip tells you nothing about creativity but the quality of the ideas might. If we want pupils to be good at problem solving we need to give them a lot of knowledge with which to solve problems. There is no generic problem solving short cut we can use. The problem solving skills of “I need to put up a bookcase but have lost the instructions” is very different from the problem solving skills of “We need to resolve the conflict in the Middle East.” I we spent less time trying to find these short cuts we might have a lot fewer wonky bookcases and a little more chance of peace. I can’t speak for all subjects and contexts but in secondary school geography we are constantly problem solving. It is what Geographers do but each problem needs a wide body of very specific knowledge. We look at how they would solve the problem of the UK’s energy mix, how they would improve housing in informal settlements and yes, even how to solve the problems in the Middle East (if someone without a knowledge of catchment hydrology tries to pontificate on the issue I wouldn’t give them the time of day). The same applies to “creativity”. The ability to create is an important and wonderful thing. Music, art and drama should play a full and important part in the curriculum but they aren’t about teaching something as generic as “creativity”. They are about teaching the skills to allow you to be creative in that particular domain. Learning to express your creativity in art is unlikely to help you pick up the trombone and learning how to write is unlikely to make your interpretive dance any less awkward. If you think that these things can be taught as stand alone generic skills (I assume you there is a 54% chance you are) then please do send me a lesson plan because I would love to see how it is done. Conclusion I think the term “21st century skills” is a nonsense. The generic skills that people will need in this century will be the same as they have needed in all of them because they are the things that make us human. I don’t think they can be taught in isolation. I don’t think we get better at “problem solving” by solving problems in different domains or better at “creativity” in one domain by practicing another. Schools play a role in preparing children for the future and that role is to ensure they leave us as knowledgeable and well informed adults.

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Masks have different kind. To know their motive, no one can find. Carefulness,prudent,knowledge and wisdom are require in any kingdom. Stoles put on Creator's mask. Present prophet Elijah,who preach to gain power,praise,money and bask. They live different from their speech. Demons come under smiling mask to accomplish their wicked task; destruction,distractio contortion, too difficult to know that they're convolution. So also ***** lover. Who was considered as one's apple. They caress,hug,kiss and hover. But only incubus and succubus people. Which masks are employees putting? Are they working or waiting? Inernia,lethargy,forty winks and lazybones, are these not their dones? The books and pens feel lexicographers . Putting on masks of burning midnight candles. Destined for doctors,actors,lawyer bankers and geographers. But at last,merit to have f-9 in bundles. Which mask are you wearing, or do your face often appear as made? Ability,nature,feeling and worrying, how do you show this grade.

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Oct 15, 2014

Oct 15, 2014 at 9:11 AM UTC

cornelpunk

MASKS

Masks have different kind. To know their motive, no one can find. Carefulness,prudent,knowledge and wisdom are require in any kingdom. Stoles put on Creator's mask. Present prophet Elijah,who preach to gain power,praise,money and bask. They live different from their speech. Demons come under smiling mask to accomplish their wicked task; destruction,distractio contortion, too difficult to know that they're convolution. So also ***** lover. Who was considered as one's apple. They caress,hug,kiss and hover. But only incubus and succubus people. Which masks are employees putting? Are they working or waiting? Inernia,lethargy,forty winks and lazybones, are these not their dones? The books and pens feel lexicographers . Putting on masks of burning midnight candles. Destined for doctors,actors,lawyer bankers and geographers. But at last,merit to have f-9 in bundles. Which mask are you wearing, or do your face often appear as made? Ability,nature,feeling and worrying, how do you show this grade.

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an average of 2,830 cubic meters per second of rich silt forms an alluvial plain spreads outward in a fan shape from sedimentary deposit whereby ancient Egyptian civilizations got built adorning arid topography invaluable like aorta pumping blood at the nape of the neck, yet analogous context engendered engineering feats without guilt whereby artisans, craftsmen, early geographers illustrated in frieze and drape frozen timeless statuary exhibiting phenomenal abilities to the hilt associated from mainspring within fertile crescent swollen like a plump grape which longest river often overflows banks whereby coveted materiel gets spilt feeding the rift valley and allowing, enabling and providing peoples to dominate flooding the history of mankind with accomplishments that marvel even today epitomized by innovations - alphabets, wheelwrights, pyramids, etc lives did create baffling historians how each mortise and tenon snug as a bug in a rug mortise and tenon block construed edifices persons did intricately lay perfect with near geometric exactitude ranks as wonder of webbed wide world great faint hints of daily trials and tribulations recorded for posterity in clay or shards of broken pottery pieced together coupling revelations a mosaic plate which functional artifacts provided dietary staples to pagan spirits populace did pray.

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Feb 10, 2018

Feb 10, 2018 at 1:06 AM UTC

matthew-scott-harris2p

Adrift in daydreams upon the banks of the Nile

an average of 2,830 cubic meters per second of rich silt forms an alluvial plain spreads outward in a fan shape from sedimentary deposit whereby ancient Egyptian civilizations got built adorning arid topography invaluable like aorta pumping blood at the nape of the neck, yet analogous context engendered engineering feats without guilt whereby artisans, craftsmen, early geographers illustrated in frieze and drape frozen timeless statuary exhibiting phenomenal abilities to the hilt associated from mainspring within fertile crescent swollen like a plump grape which longest river often overflows banks whereby coveted materiel gets spilt feeding the rift valley and allowing, enabling and providing peoples to dominate flooding the history of mankind with accomplishments that marvel even today epitomized by innovations - alphabets, wheelwrights, pyramids, etc lives did create baffling historians how each mortise and tenon snug as a bug in a rug mortise and tenon block construed edifices persons did intricately lay perfect with near geometric exactitude ranks as wonder of webbed wide world great faint hints of daily trials and tribulations recorded for posterity in clay or shards of broken pottery pieced together coupling revelations a mosaic plate which functional artifacts provided dietary staples to pagan spirits populace did pray.

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