Week 6 Storylab

                                   (Copyright Symbol: Image from Wikimedia Commons)

A New Theory of Human Intelligence by Scott Kaufman

               The Four C’s: Capacity, Competence, Commitment, and Creativity should be differentiated. A graph was shown about the amount of predicted human potential a person should have. I disagree, Scott, with this graph. How can one person or a group of people who are most likely very similar in educational background compose a statistic on how much potential another person can have. I disagree with forming a way to analyze peoples potential but if one needed to the four Cs is a better way then others because it includes many other things other then intelligence scores. Scott shared a personal story about how in his younger days of learning he was placed in special education and eventually exited the program and was excelling in this high school classes. Scott wanted to do more and wanted to enter advanced classes however he was denied because the deciding factor was what his IQ score was at age 11. Speaking personally, I was not the brightest kid or very gifted at the age of 11 and from age 11 to the end of high school my intelligence and personality changed a lot, like EVERYONE else. To be judged on an outdated and inaccurate assessment of potential is unjust and wildly unfair. I want to conclude my notes with a quote that Scott mentions in his Talk “At what point is my achievement allowed to trump my potential”. This sat with me, why should something that you could do define what you instead of what you actually have done. Actions should triumph test scores, and IQ scores, and what’s written on a paper, we have to take into account the whole person.

Copyright is Brain Damage by Nina Paley

               Culture is a network, this is a concept Nina expresses in her video. She is talking a lot about copy right laws and how they have limited the ability for people to share and spread art. She compares art and culture to the neurons because the information must flow through them because they are all connected. This video is called Copyright is Brain damage because what copyright does is it cuts off that connection of art and culture, like the neurons, and leaves everything brain dead. Nina encourages people to ignore copyright and to ignore this brain dead state and freely express themselves in their art.