Andrea Duran's List: Annotated bib

Rieland, Randy. "A Cheat Sheet to Help Schools Foster Creativity." Web log post. Innovations. Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2011. Web. 16 Jan. 2012.

Randy Rieland discusses in the article, " A Cheat to Help Schools Foster Creativity", how schools are still following the model education for the industrial economy, and not for the modernize economy today. Rieland argues that more corporate companies want people who are more creative. As the economy today is striving on the new innovations in technology, they need more visionary people to produce even better innovations in the future. Since there is a lot of budget cuts in schools, Rieland main purpose is to get teachers and other educators to motivate students into being original and passionate about learning again. The tone of the article is informal tone as the author puts his opinion towards the end of the article. 

Rieland is a reliable source because he is a writer for an online magazine. The article has a lot of ethos and it connects to societies issue with education. Compared to the other articles, it brings up the issue of the model of the educational system; that since America was industrializing up to the 1970s, America set their educational system of what jobs were needed then. Now that America is no longer in the industrializing, we should change the educational system to fit what is needed now. This source is useful because it helps understand the educational system, which will help in my research.

Nariduchi, Nicholas. Personal Interview By Andrea Duran. 17 Jan 2012.
18 Jan 2012 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ppqYJWw8252qkKqrHUPm9g2SkTw_2Rq6XoKGo13KuEQ/edit?pli=1

In a personal interview, I asked a teacher's point of view about the epidemic of creativity. Nicholas Nariduchi, the graphic designer teacher at Basha High School, discusses why technology is vital in the creativity process for students and how it helps "generate" new ideas. The purpose of the interview was to show the point of view of an educator so the audience can have more perspective of a teacher who support creativeness in students. The questions are written in a formal tone so the person being interviewed can answer candidly about the subject

The interview provides more perception of what an educator feels about their schools systems and the possibilities of what could be done to help the students be more creative. Nariduchi answers my questions thoroughly, and provides me information on what he believes causes and destroys creativity in students. I would use this in my research because it is coming from the point of view of a teacher, who teaches graphic design, to be creative by using technology. This interview is reliable and will be used in my research paper because it gives me facts, the point of view of the person being interviewed, and explains why creativeness is important for teens to retain.

Robinson, Ken. "In Bring on the Learning Revolution!" TED: Ideas worth Spreading. TED, May 2010. Web. 16 Jan. 2012.
http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html>.
Ken Robinson adds on to his first video blog back in 2006 and argues that the learning revolution needs to start now. He supports his argument by providing information of America's conformity of education, that the schools systems standardize everything and students just have to become accustom to the environment of the classrooms. He analyzes that all kids are different and they all have different skills that are better than others. A child could be really good at something, but lack the passion to continue on with it. Robinson recognizes that passion is also the main key to creativeness. In his speech, his main purpose is to have the audience in the room that work for major businesses, multimedia, or are entrepreneurs, to help revolutionize education, as it will help their children and future generations to flourish their ideas for the future. He uses an informal tone to connect with his audience on a comfort level.

"In Bring on the Learning Revolution", Ken Robinson discusses again why the education system is important to change. This source is credible because the video was found on a site, Ted talks, that bring in businessmen and women, educators, innovators, and politicians to a convention to discuss the large issues in the world. The video adds more information and continuing from the first video in 2006, it shows that Robinson is dedicated to the cause, since the second video was made three years later. This video will make my argument stronger because it provides more examples of the education systems in America.

Puccio, Gerard J. "Creative Thinking in the Higher Education Classroom." Learners Together. Teaching and Learning Centre, Mar. 2007. Web. 16 Jan. 2012. http://www.learnerstogether.net/creative-thinking-in-the-higher-education-classroom/107>.

In "Creative Thinking in the Higher Education Classroom" discusses how the learning process is shaping students to become followers and not leaders. Puccio argues that students need the balance of knowledge, imagination, and evaluation in order to be successful and to be leaders in the job markets. By using outside studies, Puccio supports his arguments by describing that creativity is one of the seven skills mainly used in the workplace. In the society that we live in today, he describes that creative and critical thinking has been taken advantage of and as students are losing grasp of their creativity, it has now become a "survival skill" that is needed now more than ever. Puccio's purpose in the article is to encourage higher education so schools can give students the possibility to flourish and be more creative. Puccio uses formal tone for educators and organizations that encourage creativity in the classrooms.

The article is credible because the author puts his credentials of having a PhD and having a job at New York College. This article gives out straightforward information that allows the reader to understand the issue. Puccio also provides facts of how creativity stems and how higher education can influence a student's thinking ability. It uses pathos to grab educators and parents attention because it concerns their kids and their future. Compared to Anya Kamentezs' article, it concerns more around the kids and how it benefits them, and Kamentezs concerns more about the future, and how the future is important. This article helps add more information about the concerns of schools putting standards on students.

Drew, Christopher. "Rethinking Advanced Placement." Education Life. New York Times, 7 Jan. 2011. Web. 16 Jan. 2012.

In " Rethinking Advance Placement", Christopher Drew discusses that higher-level thinking gives students the challenge of being able to do more problem-solving and deeper analysis of the subjects.  Drew argues that AP classes are becoming harder as each year passes. He expresses the facts that College Board is changing the criteria to fit the student's needs rather the student fit their needs.  College Board hopes that the "New AP" will help students focus on what they need to know and "what they are able to do with their knowledge". Drew main purpose is to show that there has been improvement in changing the education system. His tone is formal as he uses a lot of outside information to report on the news. 

Christopher Drew in " Rethinking Advance Placement" is a reliable source because he is an official reporter for the New York Times. The article has a lot of facts about the "New AP" standard and it brings up the issue of why College Board has decided that it was time for a change in AP classes. It also has quotes from both students and teachers of how they feel towards the AP classes and what should be change about them. Compared to other articles, it focuses more on the high- level courses and this will help in my research because creativity stems from the critical thinking, and a lot of the AP classes make students go in-depth in the subject.

Robinson, Ken. "Schools Kill Creativity." TED: Ideas worth Spreading. Ted, June 2006. Web. 16 Jan. 2012.
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html>.
Ken Robinson is at display at the Ted convention in 2006 and his main argument was that creativity is being lost in kids when they go to school. He analyzes that schools are making kids grow up quickly and make them understand life principals. Though understanding these principals are helpful, we lose the opportunity of experiencing life, making our own mistakes, and solving our own problems. Robinson discusses that every education system has a hierarchy of subjects; that the math and sciences are more important than the english and the arts. But his purpose wasn't o inform the audience that creativity is just as important as the sciences and math classes because many of innovators would have not made technology possible if there wasn't creativeness behind those inventions. The video grabs the audience's attention my using pathos, because many of the audience members are likely to be parents, or educators, and so they feel emotion towards the speech. Robinson in an informal tone connects to the audience that kids and teens need imagination and originality, to be able to prepare for the future.

This speech gives important ideas that many people are listening to and provides a lot of information not just from the point of view of an educator, but as a parent. Robinson provides well insight to others for them to understand that our kid's future are important, and this speech gives good awareness to the general public. This is useful for my research because it provides the insight of the issue about the education system in America, and the emphasis of what will happen if we don't change the school systems in our communities.

Kelly, Amy. "Unleash Creativity-How Encouraging Your Teens Creativity Supports Their Development." Parent eSource, 24 Dec. 2010. Web. 16 Jan. 2012 http://parentesource.com/2010/12/24/unleash-creativity-how-encouraging-your-teens-creativity-supports-their-development/


Amy Kelly in "Unleash Creativity-How Encouraging Your Teens Creativity Supports Their Development" argues that creativity can help a teens express themselves. In this article, Kelly promotes that the arts is an outlet for teens to have fun and express how they feel. This encourages the audience, the parents, to help their teen be creative and to gain self-confidence in this media frenzy society. Kelly's main purpose is to have parents be more involved in their teen's life. She uses an informal tone to connect to parents about the issue.

"Unleash Creativity-How Encouraging Your Teens Creativity Supports Their Development" author Amy Kelly is a reliable source because she is the CEO of the eSource newsletter that helps parents connect with their child. Compared with the other sources, the solution to a teen's creativity in this article is quintessential; art or drawing always been publicized as the solution to being more creative. The other sources focus more on changing the structure of education and having students take more high-level classes. This is a good source because it provides a broad base of what teens can do to be more creative. This article helps show that self-confidence is important in a teenager's life and it also influences the creativity outlet for teens.

Fast Company 14 Sept. 2011: 1. Where Ideas and People Meet. Fast Company, Sept. 2011. Web. 16 Jan. 2012
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/159/indian-engineers-education>.

Anya Kamentezs argues that the core subjects in school are not enough in today's fast and innovating world. Kamentezs claims that STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is not enough to beat the leading powers in the global economy. She emphasizes that creative thinking and teamwork should be important in schools, because the ideas from students today will be new and creative and that would help innovations in the future. She interviews a top executive from India, to get perspective form someone from the outside looking at the education system of the United States. This helps bring in perspective of what other countries think of American school systems. In the article, she writes that American school systems well prepare students to be capable to take the top market jobs. Her purpose is if America's wants to continue to innovate, we have to the change our school systems to make a better future. She uses a formal tone to for business people who read the magazine.

This article is a reliable source because it comes from a publishing magazine. It is useful because it has a lot of interesting points of how innovating and creativity comes hand in hand, and without creativity, we wouldn't have the technology of today. It brings up a lot of controversial points that America is not up to par with other countries economically, and that our education systems is the root of the problems. With her interview with the top executive from India, he refutes her argument saying that America has the best education in the world and we are much more innovated than we think. The article also has a graph that shows the progress Americans have gone through from having low skill, working in productive service, to having high technological skill. This article helps my research that creativity is needed to morph the future.