11A: Creative Minds Think Alike

This week’s readings were based upon the time and patience that goes into creating good imagination and creativity. For this week’s blog, we are asked to come up with possible quiz questions that we believe could appear on an assignment for these readings in our INQ class. These questions must be college level questions that cause you, not only to prove that you did the reading, but make you analyze and come up with a theory on your own.

                The first question I thought of was, “In what ways does boredom and loneliness spark imagination and creativity? Do you agree with this theory, why or why not?” Now what makes this a college level question? This is a two part question. The first part (underlined) is a more factual analysis of the question. It makes you think back to what you learned and base your answer on the readings. The second part (not underlined) is more of an opinionated analysis of the information of what you learned. With this you get a well-rounded outlook on the question, and if you read the reading, a question like this should come easy.

                The next question I thought of is, “What sorts of things are distracting us from ‘The Joys of Boredom’? In what way is this stunting our creative minds?” Like the previous question, there are two parts to the questions. Though both parts seem to be more factual analysis of the readings. But like the first one, with this you still get a well-rounded outlook on the question, and if you read the reading, a question like this should come easy.

                The next question I came up with is a little different from the first ones. “For your homework you read about 32 different types of new coming inventions. Which invention do you think will most benefit the health/wellness of American society as a whole? Which part has little/no positive benefits to Americans health and benefits?” Unlike the other questions this is three parts. The first part (Underlined) is and explanation of what you read. The last 2 parts (italicized and just bold) are factual opinion based questions.

                The last college-level question I made was, “In what ways has college stunted or helped you creativity and imagination. Use specific examples and relate it to what you’ve read this week.” Though this question is a little more general then the others, it helps us relate to college, which is the point of our inquiry class. It causes you to think over a broader spectrum.

                The question I am going to show a sample answer to you is, “In what ways does boredom and loneliness spark imagination and creativity? Do you agree with this theory, why or why not?”

We are most human when we are bored, and though we feel as if we accomplish nothing when we are, it is actually the best time to. In this week’s reading boredom is defined as the prelude to creativity and loneliness is the prelude to engagement of imagination. I believe this is because when we are alone, we are left alone with our own thoughts and minds. Hence we come up with new ideas in our mind. I agree with this. When we are by ourselves, we usually get to thinking as a way to entertain ourselves and with this, we can spark something new.

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