How To Use Your Creativity To Fast-Track Your Learning Ability
If you want to learn at lightning speed, you have to get creative.
Since 1956, when Dr. Benjamin Bloom and his team first published their landmark book detailing the six levels of educational understanding, this idea of creating to learn has been an integral part of education theory.
For decades, teachers have used this taxonomy (taxonomy = the science of classification) to teach a broad range of subjects, from the arts and humanities to biology and physics.
The link between learning and creating might not seem obvious at first. I know it didn’t really jump out at me until I became an instructor at the Air Force’s Squadron Officer School. But when you stop and think about it, it makes total sense; the summit of education is the ability to synthesize and process information and use it to develop new products, processes or procedures.
Creating thus demonstrates that ability to break down a system of thought into its smallest core elements and recombine those elements in new ways.
