https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY
It is unreasonable to try to educate a generation to be prepared for a future we know nothing about.
All children are creatively talented, until they are stifled by the school system.
Kids are willing to take a chance, and are prepared to be wrong. Adults become frightened of failure, and take no risks, losing their originality, and then forcing children into systems that encourage behaving like an adult.
Hierarchy of subjects prioritizes math & language, undermining the arts. This is a global problem.
The education system is designed to prioritize university acceptance, as designed by universities.
As degrees become more common, through academic inflation they become almost useless.
Intelligence is dynamic and interactive, not compartmentalized. Original ideas come about through interactions between drastically different ideas.
Intelligence is also unique to each person, and it is the job of schools to identify how best children can succeed, as opposed to forcing children into academic boxes.
"Adopt a new conception of human ecology. One in which we start to reconstitute our conception of human capacity. Our education has mined our minds in the way that we strip mine the earth for a particular commodity."
Educate a child's whole being. Teach a child to be able to make something of the future, regardless of if it changes.
Notes from Sir Ken Robinson's Ted Talk "How to escape education's death valley"
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-human beings are naturally different and diverse, current curriculum is based on uniformity. Judging kids based upon what they can accomplish within a very narrow spectrum of what is academically valuable. Leads many children not built for this style of learning to be diagnosed with ADHD or ADD. Kids prosper best with a broad curriculum that accepts various interests.
-curiosity is what drives children naturally to learn. Curiosity is the "engine" of achievement. No school is better than its teachers. Teachers should be inherently creative, not merely deliverers of information. The role of a teacher is to facilitate learning, not to prepare for standardized tests. These tests have a place, but they should be diagnostic.
-Human life is inherently creative. People create their lives by imaging alternative scenarios and bringing them to fruition. Finland tests better than any other country because they do not orbit their entire school system around standardized testing. There is no drop out rate because schools are obligated to care for all students and ensure success for them as people. Teaching is individualized, and it is the responsibility of the school to curate the way information is presented according to each student's curiosity, creativity and learning process. Finland also attributes a remarkably high status to teachers based upon the belief that you can't create a great education system without investing time, and professional development into creating great teachers. Also in Finland, there is no mandatory curriculum, rather educators are trusted to fulfill their duty of teaching students what they need to know. This allows for freedom to curate information and meld projects and tests to what is relevant to the students, all while considering the standards placed by the global community of learners.
What did you think of the TED Talk?
ReplyDeleteBoth very good.
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