Thing #16 - 23 Things

Both videos make a point that education needs to change, I would agree that education needs to adapt and evolve but students also need to learn that learning is not always entertaining and that sometimes it is a challenge. Learning how to meet a challenge and how to adapt to different learning environments will be important the in working world.

Sir Ken Robinson speaking in "Do Schools Kill Creativity" makes some interesting points. My favorite quote to carry away from that speech is "if you're not prepared to be wrong you'll never come up with anything original." The major emphasis in education now is preparing students to take test and to make sure we are all teaching the same thing for common assessments. Neither of these allow much room for "being wrong" or for creativity. Projects and activities that allow students and teachers to take risk, be creative, or allow time for being wrong are being cut from the curriculum. Activities that allow for dancing, moving, dramatics and creativity are being cut and it has very little to do with technology but has to do with time and resources. I strongly agree that we need to develop people's gifts of imagination and educate the whole being and technology tools should be a part of that.