Future of Creativity

In the article “The Future of Creativity” by Jeannine Ouellette she discusses the changes and alterations to a child’s development and the structure of their imaginations. She brings up poet Dana Gioia and his quotes and speech’s about children’s growth, the things that children do in this time, and how it has affected the minds of the children. She goes into detail about how children don’t play their own games anymore and how they always seek parental guidance or permission. She compares this to all of America and how we are leaning on authority to make decisions for us instead of doing things ourselves. The low amount of studies on children was also brought up as an issue in this article. Children and adolescence spend too much time in front of a TV, video games, or a computer. Jeannine uses references from television shows, poets, founders and children to explain how the future of creativity has changed drastically and why it has changed.

When Ed Miller a staff member of the Alliance for Children said “we’ve fundamentally changed the experience of childhood,” I think he means that America and its media and changed the childhood used to be with video games, computers, reality shows, and other forms of media. Children no longer imagine their adult future, or play games with themselves that doesn’t involve getting permission from an authority figure. Now they’ve added a toy or manmade game to each child to where they no longer play with other children of play by themselves but, they play with electronics for a longer period of time. Free and unstructured play as described in the article is where a child does an activity that doesn’t involve adult direction or that doesn’t depend on any manmade rules or items just the children’s imagination. This type of play is the best type of activity for children because it requires them to think of things on their own and they have to make up everything themselves. At the same time giving the child some sense of self and...