Michael Wesch’s work on digital ethnography at Kansas State University is worth looking at, if you haven’t already. One of his well known videos is called “A Vision of Students Today“. I like it because it highlights how students learn and spend their time, including the power of collaboration, the immediate access to vast amounts of information and multi-tasking. In my view, it also indirectly supports David Levy’s point on “No Time to Think” (see post below).

I am interested in what ways today’s digital environment supports creativity and in what ways it harms it? In the physical world we are only conscious of a very small amount of the stimuli around us (e.g. sights and sounds) even though our unconscious mind might store vast amounts of information. Our intention and focus filters the information in our conscious mind. I am not sure we have found such a balance yet when interacting in the digital world – and this I think has an impact on our creativity.