Curiosity, Imagination, Creativity, & Play

What do you know about curiosity, imagination, creativity, and play?
I know that these four elements are important to learning and help children to discover and learn things on their own. It is important for children to socialize and play in different ways while they are young in order to develop social skills. It is also important for adults to play in order to keep our imagination, creativity, and curiosity engaged so that we can continue to grow as people.

What do you want to know about curiosity, imagination, creativity, and play?
I want to know how to encourage these things in any grade level while maintaining course relevance. I also want to know the mechanics of how these things help children learn. Also, I’d like to know how to foster these elements in children who at first seem to be unresponsive or uninterested in play.

What you learned about curiosity, imagination, creativity, and play?
I learned that it takes all different kinds of creativity and play for our world to be successful. Without all these elements we would still be socializing around a fire in a cave, but since we are curious and play we have developed all kinds of things to change our living conditions and evolve. Also, I learned that play is important for kids to socialize, and without it it could lead to problems later on in life (an extreme being becoming a mass murderer). Also, without engaging our creative selves we tend to lock ourselves into our own little worlds of repetition where nothing exciting ever happens and we lose all sense of imagination. It is important that we encourage our imagination and creativity as well as that of our children so that we can continue to grow and explore our world. It is especially important now to encourage creativity in children since so many creative classes are being removed from the curriculum so that children never have a chance to continue pursuing anything creative and thus continue growing creatively and improving their critical thinking skills. One big element of creativity is that children have a chance to work hands on with things, or to have problems tailored to the interests of children to get them more interested in what they are doing and make their imagination more applicable to the world we live in. Once a child’s imagination is able to escape from the confines of their minds the result is a slew of new creative inventions that may have never been thought of otherwise. After watching these videos, I also learned that adults do play, and I began to realize all the ways in which I still play, even if it isn’t the same way that I did as I child. I also learned that failure can be an asset when it comes to imagination and creativity, both of which can help people survive during tough times. Without creativity, imagination, curiosity, and play, we wouldn’t be where we are as a society and we wouldn’t be able to advance ourselves.