Sunday, April 17, 2011

Ken Robinson made one large point in the duration of his speech and elaborated with personal and news stories. I take away the fact that creativity is not given enough room to flourish. Schools are more focused on drilling information at students and creativity is viewed as unproductive. I also see how Ken views creativity as an augmentation to the left side of the brain but since not many people realize that he wants to show them how important it is. To make his point very apparent yet simple and straightforward, Ken Robinson used personal stories and created hypothetical situations to help illustrate. He also talked slowly and paced himself pausing and speeding up when he felt it necessary. This also makes him seem educated and well prepared. To present Ken tried to create personal appeal with the audience so he sounds less foreign to them. Hence the information he is giving them sounds practical and applicable to their lives. This matters because in every students lives they control very little of it and the teachers (adults) make all of the learning decisions. Implementing creativity into this makes those adults look critically at what education is really achieving. Then further down the road student’s education will affect their careers and lifestyles. But Ken Robinson never voiced his opinion on how he thinks creativity should be incorporated into education. So would it be better to just open up the curriculum and allow students to insert their own creativity or would the teachers pick “how to be creative”? Because with the second option the whole creative aspect is sucked out of the learning and is actually not being utilized. Another issue is whether or not the teachers or students can predict better where the future is going. Ken Robinson pointed out the issue of the unknown of the future but didn’t throw any solutions out. The younger generation might have a better understanding of the future since it will be the people around them that create it.

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