RSA Animate – Changing Education Paradigms
This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA’s Benjamin Franklin award.
For more information on Sir Ken’s work visit: http://www.sirkenrobinson.com
RSA Animate – Changing Education Paradigms,
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I *LOVE* this and agree completely. This is EXACTLY why Kidzmet.com provides student learning preference information to teachers.
1.- ¿Se podría encontrar los videos de Ken Robinson en español…?
2.- ¿Se podría parar el video, ir por partes, para poder discutir las ideas que han salido en la sección pasada…? Hay culturas que necesitan reflexionar y discutir los temas que otra persona presenta…
@steamerwon
I got your point completely, but I disagreed with your definition of thinking. That process you described as “[saving] you from having to think” is what I believe thinking is in the first place. Chunking, mnemonic-forging, revision, reading, I think these are all the signs of a THINKING person. And I’m afraid your comment will mislead someone who isn’t that smart into thinking “I shouldn’t use my brain too hard, I should just do what I’m told.” because that’s what most people do.
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Please bear in mind that this modern world is made possible only by math/sci/tech AND petroleum and coal, and a little uranium. These super high density energy sources allow for the excesses that then pay for the “arts” and relatively good wages for, say, forklift operators. Math/sci/tech is organized by business types and simpler jobs are created for the simple. The “Prussian” model serves the system well, as it trains and promotes the minds that create everything people value.
hmm
Now if only my teacher could write and draw everything in the lesson like that, I would learn a lot more.
Wikipedia: I know everything!
Google: I have everything!
Facebook: I know everybody!
Twitter: I follow everybody!
Internet: Without me you are nothing!
Electricity: Keep talking bitches!
@lobomau08 by the way, it’s pursue
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Is he right about most things? Probably yes.
But then again, lets hear Ken make some feasable proposals on how to change the system.
Also, Education is not as bad as it is being portrayed. The curriculum allows for some flexibility; lessons incorporate cross curricular issues; Kids are encouraged to persue their interests and develop their unique approaches. However, kids still need to count, do arithmetic, read, learn some maners, etc. All of that still stands – perhaps more than ever.
This video said everything I ever wanted to say about the education system, but failed to find the words and sentences to explain it.
This is great. I just saw a similar video but for development from DevEd on empowering communities in developing countries /watch?v=vZgReyCJSU4
great video but HUGELY disappointing that the audio dies at 11:08. this is a repeatable error in firefox, chrome and IE.
“don’t let schooling interfere with your education” Mark Twain
@FloydIV Exactly.
@spiritprofessor Over 25,000 thousands.
@Npowell01 Sorry you have missed the point.
Research shows (please read the book) that we are not very good at thinking.
We can only keep ,say seven different things in working memory at a time…If you want to appreciate, to think critically, we need lots of stuff in long term memory that we can recall with ease.
Often we just blurt out an answer or an opinion without thinking through what we are about to say.
Why ? because it is easier…
As Willingham says, thinking is hard…..
it’s all about cash, ain’t about you or me no more.
@steamerwon
That’s right, just do,do, do, so we can all be “initiates” in a society where what is considered the most admirable of all behaviors is that which is automatic, apathetic and accompanied by no realizations of any kind.
Yes, we get it. With regards to efficiency, having to “think things out” is bad. But with regards to happiness, trying to put everything in a neat little box and make it do something X number of times so it can “perform its assigned role better” is also bad.
@tablatom if only you’d listened to your teacher on the differences between “your” and “you’re” before you decided they were useless.
@camirui “the brain is not designed for thinking. It’s designed to save you from having to think , because the brain is actually not very good at thinking. Thinking is slow and unreliable” From “Why don’t students like school” by Daniel Willingham (a cognitive scientist).p3
Good teachers would teach strategies that help students to “think” more efficiently e.g. continuing practice and revision, mnemonics, chunking facts, reading widely, etc.
Above all practice. and practice.
How many uses are there with the use of Cannabis?
So showing this to my principal!
@TheAbsentmonded consumerism fucked up the world. And that’s it.
@steamerwon “does not have to think”??? As far as experts say, “image interpretation”and “problem solving” are part of human thinking. As in Linguistics, which deals with the automacity of language production. The fact that our brain works so fast that in appears to be independent doesn’t mean that’s not THINKING.
Actually, that is the key concept in aparadigm in where KNOWLEDGE is asimilated by inmersion, not practice.