...Be Forewarned, I’m employing a hackneyed cliche to illustrate my point, children are our future. In order to create a brighter future for children, they will need the proper training. In Chapter 7 “Feeling Better”, Sir Ken Robinson discussed how it is essential for schools to focus on the emotional development of a child and not just the intellectual development. That children learning how to empathize with others early on is instrumental in how they handle relationships after they are adults. That in order for people to better understand others they would have to develop a better understanding of themselves. The question remains, what’s the best approach to ensure this? How can society secure its children’s futures without impeding them in other areas of life? A substantial amount of people believe in the value of school, that it’s the key to everything in life. This isn’t wrong, however, will it be enough for kids later in life and what are schools missing today that could cause an adverse reaction tomorrow? The answer is simple, creativity...
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...I watched the presentation by Sue Austin titled Sue Austin: Deep sea diving… in a wheelchair. This was an amazing about the power of never stop believing. Sue Austin took a preconceived conception of how we see wheelchair bound people and threw it right out the window. She wanted to break out of the mold of a helpless wheelchair bound individual and into thinking no matter what happens in life you can do anything. This video can be found at http://www.ted.com/talks/sue_austin_deep_sea_diving_in_a_wheelchair.html. The speaker does an amazing job inspiring and getting her audience excited about the lecture. She effectively address’s her audience with just the right amount of information for the audience. She gives just enough back stories to her condition to let you know what happened without making it an all about the disease that took her legs. She gives information on what motivated her and inspired her to create a new outlook on wheelchairs. She effectively keeps everyone’s interest no matter what they came for; even if they had only stumbled in they would have been interested in the lecture. The Audience is immediately sucked into the intriguing women on the stage. Wondering what she has to say and how she will motivate them to do anything. They sit in rapt silence wondering at the words and strength that are being displayed on stage. The information is absorbed by everyone old and young. Effective is not a word that could describe the effect this lecture had on the people...
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...How Schools Kill Creativity Eric Godinez PHL/458 27 October 2014 Cyndi Bills How Schools Kill Creativity For this paper I chose talk “How Schools Kill Creativity” by Sir Ken Robinson. The talk takes place in Monterey, CA February22-25, 2006 and the conference was named “The Future We Will Create”. And rightly so with many of the speakers being futurists and many of the talks held emphasized future developments in various fields. Sir Ken Robinson is a British author, speaker, and international advisor on education in the arts. I had seen this talk on TED a few years ago and it really struck a chord with me. I had not seen it I quite some time and so when I saw it again it had the same effect on me as the first time I saw it. I found the talk to be not only enlightening but funny and upbeat. Sir Ken Robinson has excellent public speaking skills and a fantastic wit. During his talk he brings up several points about education and the current system. The Importance of Creativity To begin his talk Sir Ken Robinson states that children have a great capacity for innovation. I can certainly relate to this being a father of two girls and stepson. They all have their unique gifts and talents. My stepson is whiz when it comes to math he is only nine years old, my twelve year old daughter love to play cello, and my five year old daughter loves to sing and dance. I once was waiting in a very long line and she started to sing a song I had never heard before. It appeared...
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...Creativity Belief that public education standards are suppressing the creativeness of children, thus society as whole, is gaining wide spread acceptance. The pressure that students are under to achieve in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs leaves little time for commitment to creative programs such as music, theater, dance, film, and visual arts. Society today places more value on science and math, a holdover from the Industrial Revolution and manufacturing in the United States after World War II. Diminishing Creativity In his discussion at the Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED) Conference in Monterey, CA February 2006, author and educator Sir Ken Robinson presented the argument that “We have been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers.” (Robinson, 2006). Parents have been “indoctrinated” by the same education system that now strives to quell the creative spark in todyas new generation. The emphasis of STEM in the education process removes emphasis from creative programs. Children are turnover to the education system for seven to nine hours a day. Teachers don’t want a child to be a dancer, musician, or writer and push academic achievement in STEM classes as an extrinsic motivator. For example, Doing well in math and science will put on the path to a scholarship at a great school! We have all heard it. Conversely, we have also heard that music and dance will leave you broke and hungry. There are no jobs for musicians...
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...children are pushed academically. European countries are known for their relaxed environment in the classroom, and according to Sir Ken Robinson, “There are no standardized tests in Finland… It’s not what gets them up in the morning; it’s not what keeps them at their desks.” So then it is safe to say that if education in America is to improve, a new teaching system must emerge. The problem with the education system in the United States lies within the method of teaching itself. Think about this: When children are forced to attend school for a consecutive eight hours a day from the time they are four years old until they are eighteen, there is limited time left for children to just be children. Especially at a young age it is easy to become restless and just down right bored. Ken Robinson said it best by stating, “Children are not suffering from a psychological condition they are suffering from childhood.” He goes on to explain how many adults are placing the blame of boredom on ADHD. If America wants to enhance their education, they must realize that what they are doing isn’t working and therefore implement changes. Understandably, President Bush implemented the no child left behind policy as an attempt to lower the drop-out rate in this country. Ironically though, this policy didn’t fix a thing, in fact it had the opposite effect. Robinson talks about this policy by saying it “is based on conformity not diversity.” To support that idea, a video entitled Changing Paradigms...
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...“THE SHIFT” IN EDUCATION Children in modern world surf internet for lots of purposes. Among those children I am also a one person who searches internet a lot. I definitely use to search interesting videos in YouTube. Ted Talk’s in You Tube is one of the most popular lectures that all people listen. I also listen to them, there are lots of lecturers who do Ted Talk’s, and among them Sir Ken Robinson is my favorite lecturer. Among his lectures “The Shift in education” is the lecture that took my personal respect. In this Ted Talk he talks about the culture of American education contradicts three principles that make human life thrive: diversity, curiosity and creativity. Humans naturally embody those qualities, but school has become a system based on conformity and testing, qualities that don’t use the natural learning tendencies that every child has. In this lecture he makes an argument about the individualized learning, but also for valuing teachers and thinking their skill and professional development as a future investment in children. According to him teachers should be facilitators in the class rooms instead of been instructors with which I can agree more. According to my point of view flipped classrooms helps teachers to transform their class rooms and use the time for group works and to interact with the students more. We've probably reached an environment in which children are some much bombarded by stimulations on a permanent basis some very appealing, psychologically...
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...“Teaching, properly conceived, is not a delivery system....Great Teachers mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage....The role of leadership in teaching is not command and control, the real role is climate control: A climate of possibility.” --- Ken Robinson. Is it the teacher who is involving or is it the climate that enables an involving teacher? A lesson is a group activity and the rhetoric of the group provides the conditions for learning growth. I feel that it is the duty of the teacher to create the right conditions and to impress upon the learners a sense possibility, broader opportunities and a concept of their ownership of prospects for the future. The LLUK refers to this in by stating “Teachers in the Lifelong Learning Sector: Encourage the development and progression in all learners through recognising, valuing and responding to individual motivation, experience and aspirations”. The days of simple delivery of knowledge for systematic recall potential are ever fading from our collective educational memory, (Although this could be debated according to the recent changes, Oct 31st 2013, to the GCSE assessment methods á la Gove: Dropping coursework in favour of formal examinations and creating an environment more conducive to certain types of learning styles. Or is this a reaction to the culture of Academies? I digress.....) Modern teachers have the freedom to manufacture a lesson more creatively, more aesthetically appealing through technology and more accessible...
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...Creative Spark PHL/458 For this assignment, I chose Sir Ken Robinson’s video talk about how schools kill the creativity of the children they teach. In his roughly 20 minute speech in Monterey California, in February 2006, he took center stage to deliver a humorous monologue on the spark of creativity. He pointed out that it was his belief that everyone has an interest in education, and it runs deep within us as a society, because it drives the way our culture performs. His speech points out that education is the catalyst that is preparing us for the future, and that right now no one knows what the future will hold for us. In 20 years or even five, we are unable to predict with any certainty what the world will require of its population, because we don’t know what the future holds and how do we educate for it? No matter where you travel in the world today the education systems are set up in the same general order of importance.Math, Science, Language, and Humanities always are at the top of the education list, with creative activities such as Arts, Dancing, and Theater at the bottom. In his speech, he spoke of the education system of today being antiquated to the developments over the last 50 years. The current system which has been developed in the 19th century to accommodate the educational needs of industrial growth, has since lost its edge. In today’s world, with its growing population and advanced development,a creative and innovative ideas to continue forging ahead for...
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... What is Creativity? What is creativity? Webster's dictionary defines creativity as the quality of being creative. According to Sir Ken Robinson, creativity begins with imagination. He states that “imagination is the ability to step outside of your current state, to bring to life what is unprecedented to our senses.” I do believe that creativity does in fact deal with the imagination. I myself, I have an overactive imagination. The ablilty to create things with a active imagination, has endless possibilities. Fostering Creativity What does it take to foster creativity? Many things can help foster creativity, but it just depends on the person. One of the best things to do for someone, is to allow them to flourish. To help foster creativity, change the environment. Environmental change may be the key to see what someone may be good at. For someone who may be constantly moving around when they heard music, then they may request to be a dancer. If someone is forced to paint in school and do not like to paint, change their environment. The environmental change may be just what that person needs. They may be more interested in music than painting. What May Discourage Creativity? There are different things that can discourage creativity in current society. According to Sir Ken Robinson's story of the 1930s dancer, the mother thought that her daughter had a medical condition, do to the fact that she could not sit still. If she was to...
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...Huy Tran CSBS 330 Dr. Dale Lindekugel Lab 1 I. I would like to research a topic on public education system and it’s responsibility on the deprivation of students’ creativity II. A couple months ago, I watched a video in which Sir Ken Robinson -a British international advisor on education speaks at TED conference. He made the case that schools, on one hand, claim to better our future, turn out on the other hand to be the force that vanish our creativity, to make talented, brilliant people think otherwise. I’m fascinated by his speech and can’t help but agree with him on that. He speaks for many of us students that the education system in the US and the world is similar in the way that it doesn’t allow students to be who they want to be. Schools set in students’ minds the standard and benchmark of what the workforce want from them instead of leading them onto the path of their true passions or things that feed their spirit. He gave an example of world-renowned choreographer Gillian Lynne, who’s also known for her work in “ Cats” and “ Phantom of opera”. When she was little, she couldn’t pay attention to study at school, and was thought to have learning disorder. But little did that school know she was born to dance. So, after transferring to a dance school, she took off and became successful millionaire. Our education system doesn’t give art, drama, music or anything creativity driven classes the same status...
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...------------------------------------------------- Student Number: 11294636 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Lecture Day: Monday 9 AM to 12 PM ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Lecturer: Dr. Walter Jarvis ------------------------------------------------- Tutor: Ms. Alison Lee ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- UTS: BUSINESS SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT PART A: The educational system in any country around the world is, by no doubt, designed to meet the ever growing hunger of Industrialization. Dubbed by Sir Ken Robinson (2010) as “the fast food model”, this educational system, albeit useful in shaping the world that we all see today, has had some significantly negative impact on the lives of some people who were forced to be a victim of this system. It is indeed true and I agree with the fact that there are many people in this world who often forego their talents and creative abilities in order to be a part of this so called industrial model...
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...School Kills Creativity Derrick Bryant HUM/144 September, 25 2012 Shari Bevans School Kills Creativity I thought Sir Ken Robinson makes an interesting point concerning America’s education system. He is right about high school they do not understand creative kids. Most kids that are hyper active we need to just find out what their creative interest are. He also talks about how our school system could be weakening our kids’ minds. Schools are geared towards educating our kids towards being professionals in a particular field. Some of the strengths he talked about concerning Americas school system is that teacher are not understanding the creativity of our kids. For example if a child is disruptive in class. The teacher may think that he or she is not well discipline. His suggestion is that these kids may have creative ideas that need to be express. I believe what he is talking about is kind of true. All kids are different in terms of how they learn. A lot of it comes from the way their parents teach them. Kids may creative, but that has to be nurtured by their parents and in school. He talked about a young lady who had some attention problems and how her parents found out that she was a dancer. That is not the case for all children, because all parents can afford to send their kids to other creative schools. In my conclusion what Sir Robinson talks about is not the best solution for all kids. What I see in my culture kids trying to raise kids or grandparents raising...
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... including my parents, will keep me from achieving my ideal job. The one main conflict is my family. My family wants me to get a good job that I won’t enjoy but get paid enough money to pay for them. I would like to have a good job that I enjoy to go to everyday no matter how much it pays. Another conflict I have is that would of liked to take a programming class in high school. But high school didn’t have a class just for that or have a class that incorporates the programming that I would like to learn. Another conflict is how the education system is put together. All the major subjects are taught more and the classes that the kids might want to take for their skills are either not put into the school or taken out of the curriculum. (Sir Ken...
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...Creative Talk and Analysis Doug Edwards PHL/458 3/7/2016 Bennigna Jenkins Sir Ken Robinson Feb, 2006 Monterey, California Creating an Education that Nurtures (rather than undermines) Creativity From the onset Ken addresses the audience and soon after jokes with the crowd (which he does through out his speech) this gets the audience engaged and focused on what he is about to say to them. He then tells the audience what he wants to talk to them about and says he wants to talk about three themes; one is the extraordinary evidence of human creativity the variety and arrangement of it. Second is it puts us in a place where we have know idea what is going to happen in terms of the future and how it may play out. Everybody has an interest in education partly it is because it takes us into the future that is unknown. He states a few stats on education and the unpredictability of it as soon as five years down the road. The third part is the extraordinary capacities that children have towards innovation. Kids will take a chance at creativity they are not afraid of mistakes at being creative. For example if they are in a play that they have lines to say and forget their line they will say something because they are not afraid of making a mistake. Saying something wrong does not mean you are being creative but if you are not prepared of being wrong you will never come up with anything original. Most people that...
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...inflation rate shown through the comparison of college tuition fees and other commodities. SOLUTIONS Social & Cultural SIR KEN ROBINSON: ADOPTING A NEW CONCEPT OF HUMAN ECOLOGY In February, 2006, Ken Robinson gives a TED talk entitled, “How schools kill creativity.” He challenges the way people are educated. He states: Our education system is predicated on the idea of academic ability. And there's a reason. Around the world, there were no public systems of education, really, before the 19th century. They all came into being to meet the needs of industrialism. So the hierarchy is rooted on two ideas. Number one, that the most useful subjects for work are at the top. And the second is academic ability, which has really come to dominate our view of intelligence, because the universities designed the system in their image. If you think of it, the whole system of public education around the world is a protracted process of university entrance. And the consequence is that many highly-talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not, because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized. And I think we can't afford to go on that way. I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our conception of the richness of human capacity (Robinson). Ken Robinson advocates for a change in the education system, and its hierarchy. He believes that there should not be a hierarchy, as...
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