I just watched Ken Robinson's video on Creativity. The first thing that caught my attention was when he said our beginning learners today will retire around 2065. Our world is vastly changing and we don't know what the future holds for us in the next 5 years even, yet we are supposed to educated for it. I like the fact that he said that children have so many talents and creative minds, yet schools seem to squash and/or ignore these skills. I think it is very important that creativity be included in almost all aspects of education because I think it is a key to helping the individual child learn. I laughed when Ken Robinson told the story about the little girl drawing God and how she said "in a minute they will" know what God looks like. The little girl wasn't afraid to be wrong and I think that is something that too many children fear in the schools today. Like he said, that when children are afraid to be wrong they lose their originality in creativity.
I definitely think this is true because when I was younger, I never had a problem being creative. My school projects from elementary school all seem to have a lot more color and creativity in them than they did in high school. I could play dolls or house with a friend for hours when I was younger, but now it seems we don't do that in fear that we will look 'stupid' or say something wrong. I thought it was very interesting that Robinson stated that we stop using children's bodies from the waist down, then as time goes on we only use their heads. I think he means that we are only supposed to be using our heads, instead of our whole bodies, with education. Using our bodies would mean we would have to be more creative in thinking, and I believe using dance, music, or PBL in the classroom would open up the minds of learners.
Overall, I really enjoyed this video. I found Robinson to be very amusing and insightful
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