My Learing Styles

When I took the Gardner and the Gregorc tests, I thought I knew what type of learning style I would be.  However, I was shocked to see how completely different I am!  On the Gregorc test, I tied between Abstract and Concrete Random.  I had a feeling that I would score higher in the Abstract Random but not in the Concrete Random.  Basically, the Abstract Random learning styles says that I'm emotional and have deep feelings towards things, I am colorful and imagenative, and I like to discuss things, all which relates to me.  I learn best through group work and role play.  Acting out scenes is easier to understand.  However, I was surprised to match up with Concrete Random because the characteristics state that I'm independant (which I am but not all the time), investigative, curious, and problem-solvers.  It also said that these types of learners, learn best through games and stimulations, which (I think) is not me.  However, after thinking about Concrete Random, I started realizing some of the similarities like how I'm creative and like few restrictions.

On the Gardner test, I scored highest in musical.  I think this "catorgory" fits me best because I love music and dance and I think I can read it more so than others.  However, I don't play any instruments but I know I am capable of teaching myself.  For example, I taught myself a few songs on the piano.  I also scored high on the inter-personal which I know is right because I am very empathetic and can read others' emotions.  A person I admire is Lady Gaga because she stands up for what she believes in.  I think she is inter-personal because she does know how people are feeling about bullying because she can relate to them and applies that to her music.  Another person I admire is Nicholas Sparks (my favorite writer!).  I think he would be linguistic because (obvisouly) he writes but; futhermore, he knows how to write and grab the readers' attention.  One last person who I admire is my cousin, Danny, because of how successful he is, just starting college.  His learning style is definatly mathmatical-logical because he loves to solve things and applies all of his knowledge to problems in real life.  

Those were my results to the Gardner and Gregorc tests! 

Is there a problem with creativity?

Over the past few years, more and more technology have been created, making it easier on us to do simple things like making flyers or even a card.  This major change has greatly impacted our schools.  The creativity level has decreased so much which is very sad.  I do agree with the TED talk because I experience it everyday in school.  We do the same boring essays and posters for projects!  We should have a choice!  Some people are highly talented in video-editing, so why can't they make a video?  The problem is, it isn't easy because it's creative.  It makes us think more, which is why I wonder why schools don't practice creativity as much because it does make us think more!
I think not practicing creativity is going to harm us in the future!  We won't be able to invent new things and just even come up with ideas.  We're too focused on all these other things that we don't even realize that without creativity, none of the "things" we use everyday would exist! This "creativity crisis" is a major crisis because it's putting a hole in our lives that we may never get to cover back up.  I found this "creative" article that explains the benefits of creativity!  I hope when you read it that you learn all the wonderful things creativity can do for you and why we should practice it.

Grades... really?

The purpose of grades are to judge your ability to learn new things and apply them to real life.  I don't really mind the current grade system but I think it doesn't represent you as a person.  I do not think the current grading system represents your knowledge because they are just numbers and letters.  I think we should do a combination of both the current and standard grading system so you can see how many points you got out of a hundred and you can see how well you did which is very important.