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In my recent post about creative competence, I promised I'd follow up with more posts about creativity, broadly defined. Here's one of the videos I wanted to pass along. Sir Ken Robinson's presentation at TED.com describes how our educational system--still based on a 19th-century model--is tailor-made to suppress creativity.
Impairing students' (and everyone else's) ability to think creatively is cultural suicide. So what do we need to change?
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And if you're curious, read more of Robinson's work at his blog. His new book is The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything.
I made a case for my professional concern about education and creativity in A stupid way to teach, my post about a disturbing news report I heard here in Seattle the Friday before the presidential inauguration. Judging from your feedback, that post struck a nerve. I'd appreciate your thoughts here as well.
-- Holly
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When He said "If you’re not prepared to be wrong you will never come up with something creative", I really started to listen. I work for a very org that has many people afraid to make mistakes because it will cost you dearly, but it’s through the pain of the mistake we learn a lot, (Sometimes repeated over and over) I wish more people took the risks because some of the greatest idea’s come from this. (I love hearing about the light bub something like 60 plus tries later it finally worked) Now one other thing about the video, I don’t agree in part with, to let children be more creative is the way of the future, (I do agree we need to help them find what they’re good at, love them and encourage that is a good thing) Creativity is simply not enough, a balance is needed in schools to make it a place where we can teach kids fundaments (reading, writing, arithmetic mixed with embracing creativity) pulling out the agenda drive junk would be key. I know I was one of the children that teachers wanted to be medicated (heavily) but my parents helped me find an out to control it. (track and orchestra) I think we would be far better off to stop medicating kids and let them run around and find some out or passion they have to encourage it.
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