I'd like to be a bit more precise in language: Creativity is a number of different attributes, including but not limited to divergent thinking. My Center's extensive review of the learning sciences literature comes up with 5 subcompetencies for Creativity:
* Developing personal tastes, aesthetics, and style
* Generating and seeking new ideas
* Being comfortable with risks, uncertainty, and failure
* Connecting, reorganizing, and refining ideas into a cohesive whole
* Realizing ideas while recognizing constraints
In an AI world, incremental innovation is no longer sufficient - we agree, as AI can analogize/mimic and extrapolate, as humans do. The radical innovation side - imagination - is harder to do, but humans also need to wade through a lot of increments to come up with brilliance (Mozart etc. also did plenty of pedestrian work, with occasional flashes of brilliance).
Thanks for brining up Creativity, Azeem.
I'd like to be a bit more precise in language: Creativity is a number of different attributes, including but not limited to divergent thinking. My Center's extensive review of the learning sciences literature comes up with 5 subcompetencies for Creativity:
* Developing personal tastes, aesthetics, and style
* Generating and seeking new ideas
* Being comfortable with risks, uncertainty, and failure
* Connecting, reorganizing, and refining ideas into a cohesive whole
* Realizing ideas while recognizing constraints
In an AI world, incremental innovation is no longer sufficient - we agree, as AI can analogize/mimic and extrapolate, as humans do. The radical innovation side - imagination - is harder to do, but humans also need to wade through a lot of increments to come up with brilliance (Mozart etc. also did plenty of pedestrian work, with occasional flashes of brilliance).
This and other 9 competencies are described in the book I shared with you as pdf a few months ago: https://curriculumredesign.org/our-work/education-for-the-age-of-ai/ happy to discuss when you turn your attention to the consequences on education.
Be well, Charles