Making is Connecting: The Social Meaning of Creativity (ch.1) by David Gauntlett by JRobinson

p.1

tmsjen — 2015-02-04 22:38:09 UTC

Power of internet and World Wide Web

tmsjen — 2015-02-04 22:38:36 UTC

a. Connect things together-- make something new.

b. creativity involves social-- connect with others.

c. by making & sharing things-- increase engagement and connection with social and physical environment.

tmsjen — 2015-02-04 22:40:30 UTC

People make something as part of process, generate insight.

tmsjen — 2015-02-04 22:41:24 UTC

Communal, collaborative garden instead of many separate plots.

Collective activity, greater than sum of parts

tmsjen — 2015-02-04 22:43:41 UTC

p.6: standardized testing, NCLB

p.7: Sit back and be told media: spending large amount of screen time.

p.7-8: fetish-- commodity as "real"-- object attachment

p.8: making and doing shift

p.8: classrooms-- investigation and solutions, student driven

p.9: Web as social media

tmsjen — 2015-02-04 22:46:09 UTC

Csikszentmihaly: creativity researcher

a. studied famous creative names; making a difference to culture, science, society

b. noticed and appreciated by other people

tmsjen — 2015-02-04 22:48:00 UTC

"capacity to think up something new that people find significant."

tmsjen — 2015-02-04 22:49:00 UTC

a. the "value of making stuff more generally... sharing our own media culture."

b. not lots of specific examples of creativity in this book; creativity as it is important for society, and therefore political.

tmsjen — 2015-02-04 22:50:46 UTC

We will face challenges, but humans are creative and can work well together to do great things.

See: transitionnetwork.org

Shaun Chamberlain-- build resilience and creative capacity to deal with significant challenges