11A: College Based Questions and Answers

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This week’s readings were focused on creativity and innovation. The articles that we read had a lot of information in them, and there are definitely some questions you can form from the readings to wonder about. But how can we come up with ‘college level’ questions to ask ourselves? Yes, there are the typical questions, “What was the article about?” “How should you use the article in your life” and so on, that can easily be answered, but then there’s questions where you need to think, analyze, compare and contrast, ect, and view the articles from many different sides. Some of the questions that we are asked in class are different from ones we are used to and this week we were told to come up with our own inquiry questions based off of the readings. These questions, however, needed to be striving toward a ‘college level’ type question. The questions should be thought out and having you really think about what you read before writing down an answer.

The questions that I came up with for the readings are:

1.       What is the ‘Overnight Test’ and how can it impact your creativity?

2.       How does being bored impact your creativity?

3.       How can we teach ourselves to become more innovative? Can we teach others as well?

4.        What is ‘interleaving’ and why should you use it? What helpfulness does it give you?

Answer to #2:

When you are bored, your mind is wandering. When you are thinking about something, or doing something productive, your mind is more focused on that one task itself. Being bored makes you think of new ideas, and some that you didn’t even know you could think of. When you are not doing anything, when you’re sitting around, you’re thinking. You can think of new things to do, and think the most random thoughts you can imagine. All of these thoughts will boost your creativity.They also say that the most ‘bored’ people are the most creative ones. I think that this is a true fact because you can do a lot more than you think when you are bored and it will show through your creativity!