Great Sugar Digest and pointers, thanks. Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> writes:
> Diego is of the believe that creativity is a skill that can be taught; For the sake of conceptual clarity, I would myself consider creativity as a meta-skill: the skill to activate other specific skills and make something out of them. "Specific skills" are those with a specific object/purpose: repair a bike, solve an equation. Creativity is only a generic skill, with no purpose pre-defined. Obvious hypotheses: 1. traditional teaching is good at teaching specific skills; 2. creativity can not be directly taught, only indirectly encouraged; 3. "teaching creativity" is meaningless unless teaching is creative itself, and focuses on creating the right environment for such a meta-disposition to engage into something interesting. As far as I understand it, Sugar is a digital version of such an environment. ... Food for thought for the next SugarCamp? I would love to hear about Walter's experience and ideas on these topics! best, -- Bastien _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
