This weeks readings focused on both creativity and innovation.
The articles I read made me think about both of these topics, and I have come up with a few questions that I would put on a quiz or test regarding the previously mentioned readings...
1. What is "The Overnight Test," and how can it produce the maximum amount of creative output?
2. Why are young people often more innovative then their elders?
3. How can boredom produce creativity?
4. What is "Interleaving" and how can it increase your ability to learn new material?
Answer to #4:
"Interleaving" is a method used for learning new material in which you force yourself to move back and forth between subjects and ideas you are attempting to learn. According to Bjork, the best way to learn something new is to reject the common method of "mastering one thing before moving on to the next" and interleave instead. The article gives an example of a learning situation where you are forced to "leap from translating Hebrew to reading Jonathan Edwards and back to biblical Hebrew again." This process creates a sense of difficulty which "increases your capacity to learn and retain knowledge." When learning in this way, you are studying information in relation to other things in your memory. This gives you a new reference to help you remember all of the information better.
A good, college-level critical thinking question should never ask you to simply regurgitate information. It should encourage you to make connections and think more deeply about a topic. A worthy answer for such an essay question should be argumentative, and it should have some form of introduction and conclusion. It should also contain details and specific examples from the readings given which support your answer. I believe that my questions and my answer model that criteria pretty well, and hopefully this exercise will better prepare me to take my next quiz in the future.
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