So our last term of school has started, and I'm already feeling overwhelmed. What is even more overwhelming is all the information we received during the two hour presentation by John Evans. The Nominee for Best Individual Twitter of the Year provided us with so much great information; I just wish we had an extra two classes so we could take it all in.
As I sit here and think about what to write about, so many different possibilties cross through my mind. One thing I recall from John's presentation was a YouTube video called, Do Schools Kill Creativity? He told us to watch this video, and we'll have no trouble writing a blog, so that is what I am going to do right now, wish me luck!
(Watching Video)
Lol, I'm not going to lie, when I saw that the video was 20 minutes long, I thought, "great, I'm going to have to sit through this boring video for that long." Was I ever wrong! What a great video, funny and eye opening! Two thumbs up!
Sir Ken Robinson makes so many great points throughout this video on how the education system needs to change when it comes to academics and creativity; I don't know where to start. I'm not going to talk about the whole video; because I believe it is worth watching yourself, but there are a few things I am going to talk about.
I definitely agree with Robinson when he says, "creativity now is as important in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status." The education system needs to change its ways and rethink its view of intelligence. There are so many brilliant students out there that are not getting rewarded for their creativity, and this shouldn't be happening.
Another thing I found interesting in the video was Robinson talking about, by the time we have all become adults, we are frightened to be wrong. I think this is very true! I know sometimes I am frightened to be wrong. For example, this blog, I hope I'm doing it right! It took me a lot of time to think about what I wanted to blog about.
I hope everybody watches this video, believe me it is not boring. Robinson is a funny guy! Let's start being the ones to help change people's throughts about, "Mistakes are the worst thing you can make."
I'm going to leave you with a quote that I really enjoyed in the video; I hope it inspires you as much as it inspires me, "If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original."
Stay classy!
Reference:
Robinson, T. (2008) Do Schools Kill Creativity? Ideas Worth Sharing.
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Great post Cote!
ReplyDeleteI'm sad I missed this presentation, it seems like it was a really good one. The quotes you picked out for your blog are so true too. It's usually our own insecurities and handcuff us from coming to an original point.
After reading this post I will be checking out that video on YouTube for sure!
Keep fit and have fun!
Burch
Hey Danni,
ReplyDeleteI really liked your comment about how students have different talents or skills and how we need to teach to them. I'm sure you'd agree that Differentiated Instruction is pretty much ALL we have talked about in 2 years of Ed.
I definitely agree with you about being scared to be wrong. I think it is hard not to be somewhat intimidated by being wrong because teachers are expected to know everything! It is such an unrealistic expectation, but it will definitely be something that we will all run into. I think teachers just need to stay confident in our own abilities.
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