Module Two: SLR Article Analysis

Alongside the entrepreneur spirit, Innovation is the process of taking new ideas and implementing them into the market. Key word being “new”, an innovation can be sometimes viewed as the application to better solutions that meet new demand-requirements, inarticulated needs or existing market needs. Innovative ideas range from: goods, services, products, processes, services, technologies or ideas that create value for which customers will pay for. For an idea to be an innovation, it must be replicable at an economical cost and must satisfy a specific need. This means is that one must be ready and willing put their new idea to the test. On the other hand, there is recognition that “innovation is also critical to cultural, environmental, social, and artistic progress as well” (Bullinger, 2006). With this stated, high-tech innovation is ultimately the reason why we can be thankful for the many new conveniences of the 21st century. Although we might see the forefront of innovation being very prominent in today’s world, innovation is truly nothing new. From the start of modern man times, innovative ideas have paved the way for civilization to advance and develop into what we are today and at the same time, we have barely begin to chip away at the tip of the iceberg of our true human potential. Some scholars believe that innovation is a

Woeste, L. A., & Barham, B. J. (2007). Undergraduate student researchers, preferred learning styles, and basic science research: A winning combination. The Clearing House, 81(2), 63-66. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/196879481?accountid=35812

The University of California, Riverside (UCR) was founded on February 14, 1907 by the Riverside Citrus experiment station by until April 18, 1959 it became a general campus that everyone could attend. Since then they are a total of 21,539 enrolled in Fall 2015 and a total of 18,608 undergraduates and 2,931 graduate students at UCR. They offer majors like Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Biological, Sciences, Biology, Botany, Plant Sciences, Business, Administration, Business, Economics and much more. That is a glance at what they offer in academics, but they also believe that student should have time spending in their education but also having done. Recently, UCR just had a block party and they contact singers, they sell food and carnivals so students get a time to have fun and spent time with their friends or even make new friends as they meet new people. They also have a health fair, and animal shelters and things similar to do, so they can keep their students informed on what is going around Riverside and along California and as a county in a whole.

The Roll of a Technical Workstream Lead I have served our Country in the armed forces for more than a dozen years and when I hear the term “technical workstream leader,” a Warrant Officer is the first though that comes to my mind. The army warrant officer definition is “a self-aware and adaptive technical expert, combat leader, trainer, and advisor” (U.S. Army Human Resource Command, 2004). The roll of the warrant officer in the military is being a technical expert, well versed in new technologies, and able to integrate them in support military operations. Warrant officers are technical workstream leaders and, for the last two years, I have been a warrant officer in the US Army.

Innovation and creativity is what sets humans apart. To get where we are today, humans have created tools, ideas, stories, medicine, technology, and more that nobody has created before; and thus, they create a precedent for our society. The common phrase “What will they think of next?” is then asked, and shortly after the question is answered with another new, inspiring innovation. We have committees today like the Nobel Prize and The MacArthur Foundation that recognize innovators and role models who instigate a positive change in our society. These awards not only commemorate the recipients, but broadcast their ideas, creations, or stories, that in turn inspire others to do the same.

As a child, my father, who was a mechanic, often brought home gadgets for us to explore together. We would take things apart and put them back together frequently. My mother references these moments as the source of my love for math and science. Ultimately, participating in extra-curricular technology activities at school solidified my desire to become an engineer. I recognize the value of early exposure to technology related fields to stimulate children’s learning and to show them how these fields can help solve meaningful problems.

The American youth are becoming smarter, but are creative minds are shrinking. American children’s scoring on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking has been falling since the 90s. Having

In this age of high-stakes standardized testing the idea of creativity in the classroom has become less and less popular. Susan W. Cress and Daniel T. Holm present a compelling case study for keeping creativity in the classroom in “Creative Endeavors: Inspiring Creativity in a First Grade Classroom” published online April 1, 2015 in the Early Childhood Education Journal.

For this week’s discussion board I used the article; Pardon the Interruption: Enhancing Communication Skills for Students with Intellectual Disability By: Bayes, Daniel A., Heath, Amy K., Williams, Carol, Ganz, Jennifer B., TEACHING Exceptional Children, 00400599, 20130101, Vol. 45, Issue 3.

As the articles states that "research suggests that skills learned in playing an instrument may mirror effective reading" (Cho, D. L., & Vitale, D. L., 2014). I agree with this because you need to learn how to read the music notes, just like you have to learn how to read to read a book. So, when a child is learning to play an instrument they gain knowledge and skills that could be used in many other ways. Also, learning to perform music has many other skills that you could use in other subjects and in the long-term because when you learn to play a musical instrument you gain skills that improve your capabilities of your memory (Cho, D. L., & Vitale, D. L., 2014). They will also gain teamwork skill because when you play an instrument you are most likely part of band and also, in order to make music you need to work with others (Matthews, M., 2011). Also, increasing coordination, hand eye coordination because when playing an instrument, you need read the notes and play the instrument at the same time. How I can incorporate art into the curriculum is by playing music in the classrooms this is a great way to incorporate music a little bit at a

Kaufman and Beghetto (2014) further suggest that creativity can be fostered in children to a certain extent by providing them with opportunities to express their own unique ideas.

4.3 Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Innovator) – Engage in innovative activities by using creative thinking to envision better ways of accomplishing professional goals.

The beauty of creativity is that it is abstract, yet ubiquitous: in art, music or how one decides to compose an essay. However, creativity has recently been declining among the human population. According to an article, named, “The Creativity Crisis,” by Newsweek.com in July 2010, authors, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, state, “the Torrance Test … indicates that the public’s “creativity quotient” has steadily crept downward since 1990” (Prompt 1). Bronson and Merryman report that the test, which evaluates one’s creativity, had been dispensed to myriads of people across the globe, and have concluded that creativity has been slowly diminishing. Kyung Hee Kim, professor at the College of William and Mary, also comments that this is most prevalent and grave among students from kindergarten through sixth grade (Prompt 1). Consequently, society, or in this case, the world fears that current students and future generations will not be nourished with the creativity required to thrive as individuals, affecting the world as a whole. Ultimately, this poses the question whether a creative thinking class, which solely focuses on the education of creativity, should be taught in the school. This school should impose a creative thinking class, due to the fact creativity is a vital element for the future and is the solution to the creative crisis.

The United States consumes more than 25% of the world’s petroleum products which is a large percentage, considering only 3% of the world’s oil reserves are produced by the United States. Given the demand for petroleum products such as gasoline, understanding why Crude oil prices have skyrocketed in recent years, is not hard. According to the article “Ending America’s Oil Addiction,” the surge in crude oil prices can be reduced in large part to the simple concepts of supply and demand. (Cooper, 2008)

Individuality is vital because it is the backbone for society, it enables innovation among adolescents. “It only takes one visionary student to be able to be able to emerge with new, fresh ideas that in many ways can be beneficial in