Sir Ken Robinson: Changing Educational Paradigms
This video is one of the best videos about education that I have seen so far. It may even be my favorite. I can’t recall anything that I disagree with him about, at least not completely. I think there is a such thing as ADHD and ADD, and I do think it is caused by watching TV and playing video games along with the fact that the way students are being taught is out of date. I think if education was rejuvenated and updated students would be interested in learning because it would be more like everything else they are used to. I also liked his point about educating students in batches. I think it would be great if we could figure out a system where we could help students who need extra help and give students who have mastered certain things more advanced work. By doing this, we could help these children reach their full potential.
I can see that some of my teachers are trying to become more up to date and incorporate technology and other things into their teaching, but I also think the whole system is still too far behind that their efforts are ineffective. It is kind of like the saying, “It’s hard to teach an old dog new tricks.” I think it is our responsibility as future educators to take the initiative to start off doing the best we can to be more advanced and teach these new things to our students. I also think that we should come up with a different method for assessing students besides standardized testing. Yes, standardized testing may make certain things easier, but is it better for the students? Is it better for their future? I don’t think so. It is our job to do what is best for our students. I don’t think that teaching to these tests is doing what is best. I think it takes so much away from the students.
I would love to do a project like this. I loved the drawing as the lecture was presented. It was very interesting. I like to draw so I could be an illustrator. I could also be an author or a narrator. I would like to take part in all of it actually.
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