What are your thoughts regarding Sir Ken Robinson's video presentation regarding "schools killing creativity?" In your response, please reflect, think, ponder, question, or wonder. Please complete your this blog response in class today.
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This presentation made me wonder if school does actually take away our creativity and how we can get it back, or what is making the creativity be taken away from school in the first place. When he is saying that "schools killing creativity" what is he trying to get out of the presentation from people? To get them to actually listen and do something about it, or just to hear something about what schools makes kid do or that they don't have anymore.
Well first of all, I feel like all TED conferences all almost sound a lot alike, i mean their tone of voice. Also, when it comes to creativity being ruined in school, I believe it really only depends on how you want to look at it, if you don't want to lose your creativity, then don't, it's kind of just a state of mind. Everyone has the potential to be creative or whatever they want to be personality wise, then it just depends on will power. However, if people just don't care, then yes, they probably will lose they're creativity. For example, if people were to tell me"oh, you're going to fail at playing saxophone!" but see, I love it so much, that no matter how much it hurt if people told me that, I wouldn't let that stop me, I would keep believing in myself, as well as everyone should believe in themselves. Also, to change the subject a tiny bit, people should not be prescribed drugs even if they have "ADHD" that doctors say is a disease, but what if really, they were just given a gift of being really creative? I mean, that's like having a very beautiful park, but slowly over time putting trash in it, that is exactly what that is and occasionally what society can do to many people. Finally, that's my thinking on "Schools vs. Creativity."
What are my thoughts about Sir Ken Robinson's presentation regarding "schools killing creativity'? I think that is true because like he said about the little girl drawing God and her teacher saying no one knows what God looks like, but she used creativity and her teacher said it was not possible to know what he looks like. The saying "if you are not prepared to be wrong then you will never have anything original" really captured me because I wonder what why people don't want to be original. It also helped me realize that being wrong is okay and it helps you be creative and improve and succeed, so being wrong once in a while is just being creative. I personally think that he is correct because school teaches everyone the same lessons and doesn't really give students a change to be creative. From personal experience, I agree with the statement that some people have to move to think, I am that way. How many times do I get in trouble for moving when I am thinking or trying to think. School is taking away my originality/ my creativity. School sees it as a distraction, I see it as learning, capturing the lesson, and then producing the answer. So in my opinion he is correct, because you can go into any classroom, ask who is afraid to raise their hand and ask a question, but is afraid to be wrong and you will see more than half the class is. School makes kids feel bad for being creative and wrong sometimes.
Sir Ken Robinson's video of "schools killing creativity" is very true. When he explained how teachers want them to be exact in order to be right, is what's killing the students' creativity and originality; which can still be right in their own way. Schools are "telling" students that they cannot become exactly who they need to be because it's too hard and there's other people better at the job but it's not true. Educating children has to prepare them for the future and to not "strip-mine" their minds - to keep them creative and the ability to be wrong can be right.
Regarding Sir Ken Robinson's video dealing with "schools killing creativity", I feel that this man is dead on with quoting Picasso. When we are young, we have such a powerful imagination, we dare to think out side of the box. And then when we grow up, we lose our imagination. We aren't very artistic anymore. Even when schools are teaching us how to be smart, we are being stripped of our own selves and our own train of thought. the doesn't mean that school is unnessacary, it just means that education does shape our mind to always have to be right. And if we have the wrong answer, we should be criticized.
Watching the video, Sir Ken Robinson he says that school education is ruining kids creativity and I agree. Going to school and not being able to express very much is wasting our imagination.When learning we should be able to use our imagination in our studies.These days kids are scared to participate in group studies because they'll be afraid that they will be wronged.Creativity is something we need in life.Without creativity and other people's opinions the rate of imagination will keep shrinking.Imagination we need so we can use those ideas later on in life.Watching the video I really agreed what he said.
Personally, I agree with Sir Ken Robinson's idea that "schools kill creativity" because it's true. In this century, teachers transform students and the creativity among them because they think they are doing good for the students. Do teachers really think that no creativeness is good? No, it isn't. I believe that creativity among young children to teenagers is key to learning. For me, being able to be creative and imaginative in learning helps me extremely. I agree with Sir Ken Robinson's reference to Pablo Picasso about how "children are born artists." Schools are stripping students from their creativity because personally, I usually don't answer questions because I'm scared that I'll have the wrong answer. I just have one question and that question is what has the present day society come to to make students afraid to answer questions in thought that they'll have the wrong answer?
After listening to Ken Robinson's video presentation regarding "School Killing Creativity" it made me think alot about what he said. Kids in school are afraid to be wrong, and are fearless about it. In our generation if we are wrong then we could be judged and be classified as"stupid." We are not able to be creative and think outside "the box" we feel that we are required to give a "normal" answer. Be just like others and think inside "the box." It is very common to get embarrassed when answering and then being wrong.
My thoughts about the video presentation "schools killing creativity" are that what he said was absolutely true; schools are stripping children from there creative roots and right to be wrong. Even though schools are bringing out the intellectual genius in children, they are erasing that right to be wrong. What I mean by that is that students shouldn't be afraid to say the wrong answer. In some sense, students should be wrong at times because that actually helps the student understand better. I believe that he was correct in what he stated and that schools should let children be inspired. I also believe that besides are typical academic classes, schools should also require creative classes that help students branch off of the natural born ingenuity.
In the video I agree with the fact that schools kill creativity. I agree with this because school is all about doing one thing a certain way the same way every time. Also because schools don't stress the importance of every thing like extra activity's being almost as important as math or science. Schools also kill the fearlessness in kids to get the wrong answer so you could learn from some mistakes.
My first thoughts on Sir Ken Robinson's video were that he was right. I agree with that school focus to much on academics which isn't a bad thing but we don't focus on new ideas either. I children we don't care what other people think so we aren't afraid of being wrong. Schools should focus on this as well, because if we don't we will never advance in this world. Succeeding is just as important as failing.
After watching the video, what he said made me think about my creativity. I used to be very creative in elementary school and middle school and I wasn't really afraid of being wrong or being different. As I have grown older and moved on to highschool, I feel like I have lost some creativity and courage to take a risk and be wrong. In school, you are always trying to find the answer. No matter what class it is. There is always an answer. There is also always a chance you will be wrong. And if that answer isn't correct, you get a bad grade. That is pretty much a general idea of what you do in school to learn. So after a few years of dealing with this, I think that students have lost creativity and courage to be wrong. People are afraid to be wrong and I think school has a big part of that.
In the presentation by Sir Ken Robinson regarding the issue of "schools killing creativity," I agreed with him almost 100%. With his points regarding how we are afraid to be wrong, and how we the arts are always at the end of the list when you think about the ranking of subjects in public school, it really made me think. I am a dancer myself and to hear the story about the woman who choreographed "Cats" and "Phantom of the Opera", it was amazing. It really showed that kids think and learn differently, and you can't expect everyone to be able to do things the way you need them to. Sitting in a class for an hour and then going to the next one, and the next one, and so on, really does get boring. By the end of the school day I am done with focusing, and it's really difficult for me to try to get a start on my homework. I just want to relax and do what I love, which is dance, but instead I have to focus on homework. For me, whenever a teacher gives us a sheet to fill out and it has the question "what type of learner are you?" I have no idea how to answer it. I can learn in almost any way I have to, because in school, you are given the material, and you better learn it; no exceptions. If we had a choice of how we learn, throughout our entire lives, and were able to be grouped by classes with the same types of learners as ourselves, it would make the kids much more able to learn, and be creative. It would help us succeed and continue faster. Schools just group all students together, and don't give us enough time to be creative, and use our brains in ways that aren't always so logical. Kids need that to be able to grow and come into their own, and schools, just don't see that.
Sir Ken Robinson's video made me think about if I think that schools are taking away creativity. Schools teach us what the believe that we need to know to be successful in live. But there is many things that kids love and that gives them their creativity that is not taught in school. In the past when a teacher asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up I would say a dancer or a dance teacher. Many of them would tell me that is not a job I should want because it is hard to get into a good job that is in that field. That took my confidence away and took away my creativity I had in Dance.
Sir Ken Robinson’s video regarding "schools killing creativity?" makes me think more about how school really makes kids not want to make mistakes. They become scared of making mistakes because all their time in school shows them that mistakes are bad. They need to get better and try not to make them. Otherwise they get critized. Another thing this video made me think about was how we let people tell us what we can do and we believe them. We put that thought in our heads and keep it. Thinking they are right, which takes away that person’s creativity. Also I agree with all this because when I am in school I try to never raise my hand. I think that I might be wrong and I hate it when someone tells me that. I also agree with the fact that people place ideas in our heads which takes away our confidence and creativity. We seem to think we can not do things that we could of done when we were little. Our creativity gets striped away more and more as we learn different things in school. This makes me feel sad and want to build my creativity back up.
I really agreed with Sir Ken Robinson's lecture about "school killing creativity" because the public education system really is. When you graduate high school you are required to have almost 5 times as many math credits then fine arts credits because the notions in the past have always been that math, science, language arts and social studies are more important than any type of art. I think that your credits and classes you take should be geared more towards what you are interested in then what the schools think are in your best interests. If you want to grow up and be a singer then I think you should have the opportunity to focus more on that then math or some other class that may end up being irrelevant to you later. I feel like sometimes young people's dreams are crushed by the stereotype of what is smart and what is right.
Some of my thoughts on Sir Ken Robinson's video presentation is that I agree that schools are killing creativity. I know that I myself am sometimes afraid to raise my hand because it would be very embarrassing to get the answer wrong. Sometime even older kids are afraid to answer questions because it's not cool to be "smart". In some classes I feel the teachers block out creativity. Sitting in a classroom watching videos and taking notes everyday is not me using my sense of creativity.
I definitely agree with the idea that “schools are killing creativity”. The one thing that really took me to believing in this was when Mr. Robinson told the story of the young girl who needed to dance. He also made an amazing point on how we focus more on math and science than we do on the arts and whatnot. I think that math and science are very important, but at the same time, it’s so good for kids to get to just take a break from all of that in the middle of the day, and be able to go to an art class, or go to a music class. I think that at the high school level there is a bigger chance of getting to experience this. But, in the middle school and elementary school levels, it is very rare to get to participate in such activities. It also got me thinking when he said the part about how a kid who starts school this year will retire in 2065, so why are we preparing them for today’s problems rather than those of the future. I really agree with the way that he out this. It’s so true. Why are we teaching students about today’s problems when in reality they won’t be dealing with today’s problems, they will be dealing with the future problems, that we don’t even know are problems yet. So, yes, I do think that the school system is killing the creativity of the students.
I found the School VS.Creativity video to be very interesting. I think there were many good points in the video. For instance, we are often times told that wrong answers are unacceptable. Sir Ken Robin made the point that it's OK to be wrong and that sometimes being wrong can help you think more and achieve a correct answer. I also agreed with the point that school takes away our creativity rather than encourage us to use it. Rather than building it up as we get older(as a life skill),"we build it down."
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This presentation made me wonder if school does actually take away our creativity and how we can get it back, or what is making the creativity be taken away from school in the first place. When he is saying that "schools killing creativity" what is he trying to get out of the presentation from people? To get them to actually listen and do something about it, or just to hear something about what schools makes kid do or that they don't have anymore.
Well first of all, I feel like all TED conferences all almost sound a lot alike, i mean their tone of voice. Also, when it comes to creativity being ruined in school, I believe it really only depends on how you want to look at it, if you don't want to lose your creativity, then don't, it's kind of just a state of mind. Everyone has the potential to be creative or whatever they want to be personality wise, then it just depends on will power. However, if people just don't care, then yes, they probably will lose they're creativity. For example, if people were to tell me"oh, you're going to fail at playing saxophone!" but see, I love it so much, that no matter how much it hurt if people told me that, I wouldn't let that stop me, I would keep believing in myself, as well as everyone should believe in themselves. Also, to change the subject a tiny bit, people should not be prescribed drugs even if they have "ADHD" that doctors say is a disease, but what if really, they were just given a gift of being really creative? I mean, that's like having a very beautiful park, but slowly over time putting trash in it, that is exactly what that is and occasionally what society can do to many people. Finally, that's my thinking on "Schools vs. Creativity."
What are my thoughts about Sir Ken Robinson's presentation regarding "schools killing creativity'?
I think that is true because like he said about the little girl drawing God and her teacher saying no one knows what God looks like, but she used creativity and her teacher said it was not possible to know what he looks like.
The saying "if you are not prepared to be wrong then you will never have anything original" really captured me because I wonder what why people don't want to be original. It also helped me realize that being wrong is okay and it helps you be creative and improve and succeed, so being wrong once in a while is just being creative.
I personally think that he is correct because school teaches everyone the same lessons and doesn't really give students a change to be creative. From personal experience, I agree with the statement that some people have to move to think, I am that way. How many times do I get in trouble for moving when I am thinking or trying to think. School is taking away my originality/ my creativity. School sees it as a distraction, I see it as learning, capturing the lesson, and then producing the answer.
So in my opinion he is correct, because you can go into any classroom, ask who is afraid to raise their hand and ask a question, but is afraid to be wrong and you will see more than half the class is. School makes kids feel bad for being creative and wrong sometimes.
Sir Ken Robinson's video of "schools killing creativity" is very true. When he explained how teachers want them to be exact in order to be right, is what's killing the students' creativity and originality; which can still be right in their own way. Schools are "telling" students that they cannot become exactly who they need to be because it's too hard and there's other people better at the job but it's not true. Educating children has to prepare them for the future and to not "strip-mine" their minds - to keep them creative and the ability to be wrong can be right.
Regarding Sir Ken Robinson's video dealing with "schools killing creativity", I feel that this man is dead on with quoting Picasso. When we are young, we have such a powerful imagination, we dare to think out side of the box. And then when we grow up, we lose our imagination. We aren't very artistic anymore. Even when schools are teaching us how to be smart, we are being stripped of our own selves and our own train of thought. the doesn't mean that school is unnessacary, it just means that education does shape our mind to always have to be right. And if we have the wrong answer, we should be criticized.
Watching the video, Sir Ken Robinson he says that school education is ruining kids creativity and I agree. Going to school and not being able to express very much is wasting our imagination.When learning we should be able to use our imagination in our studies.These days kids are scared to participate in group studies because they'll be afraid that they will be wronged.Creativity is something we need in life.Without creativity and other people's opinions the rate of imagination will keep shrinking.Imagination we need so we can use those ideas later on in life.Watching the video I really agreed what he said.
Personally, I agree with Sir Ken Robinson's idea that "schools kill creativity" because it's true. In this century, teachers transform students and the creativity among them because they think they are doing good for the students. Do teachers really think that no creativeness is good? No, it isn't. I believe that creativity among young children to teenagers is key to learning. For me, being able to be creative and imaginative in learning helps me extremely. I agree with Sir Ken Robinson's reference to Pablo Picasso about how "children are born artists." Schools are stripping students from their creativity because personally, I usually don't answer questions because I'm scared that I'll have the wrong answer. I just have one question and that question is what has the present day society come to to make students afraid to answer questions in thought that they'll have the wrong answer?
After listening to Ken Robinson's video presentation regarding "School Killing Creativity" it made me think alot about what he said. Kids in school are afraid to be wrong, and are fearless about it. In our generation if we are wrong then we could be judged and be classified as"stupid." We are not able to be creative and think outside "the box" we feel that we are required to give a "normal" answer. Be just like others and think inside "the box." It is very common to get embarrassed when answering and then being wrong.
My thoughts about the video presentation "schools killing creativity" are that what he said was absolutely true; schools are stripping children from there creative roots and right to be wrong. Even though schools are bringing out the intellectual genius in children, they are erasing that right to be wrong. What I mean by that is that students shouldn't be afraid to say the wrong answer. In some sense, students should be wrong at times because that actually helps the student understand better. I believe that he was correct in what he stated and that schools should let children be inspired. I also believe that besides are typical academic classes, schools should also require creative classes that help students branch off of the natural born ingenuity.
In the video I agree with the fact that schools kill creativity. I agree with this because school is all about doing one thing a certain way the same way every time. Also because schools don't stress the importance of every thing like extra activity's being almost as important as math or science. Schools also kill the fearlessness in kids to get the wrong answer so you could learn from some mistakes.
My first thoughts on Sir Ken Robinson's video were that he was right. I agree with that school focus to much on academics which isn't a bad thing but we don't focus on new ideas either. I children we don't care what other people think so we aren't afraid of being wrong. Schools should focus on this as well, because if we don't we will never advance in this world. Succeeding is just as important as failing.
After watching the video, what he said made me think about my creativity. I used to be very creative in elementary school and middle school and I wasn't really afraid of being wrong or being different. As I have grown older and moved on to highschool, I feel like I have lost some creativity and courage to take a risk and be wrong. In school, you are always trying to find the answer. No matter what class it is. There is always an answer. There is also always a chance you will be wrong. And if that answer isn't correct, you get a bad grade. That is pretty much a general idea of what you do in school to learn. So after a few years of dealing with this, I think that students have lost creativity and courage to be wrong. People are afraid to be wrong and I think school has a big part of that.
In the presentation by Sir Ken Robinson regarding the issue of "schools killing creativity," I agreed with him almost 100%. With his points regarding how we are afraid to be wrong, and how we the arts are always at the end of the list when you think about the ranking of subjects in public school, it really made me think. I am a dancer myself and to hear the story about the woman who choreographed "Cats" and "Phantom of the Opera", it was amazing. It really showed that kids think and learn differently, and you can't expect everyone to be able to do things the way you need them to. Sitting in a class for an hour and then going to the next one, and the next one, and so on, really does get boring. By the end of the school day I am done with focusing, and it's really difficult for me to try to get a start on my homework. I just want to relax and do what I love, which is dance, but instead I have to focus on homework. For me, whenever a teacher gives us a sheet to fill out and it has the question "what type of learner are you?" I have no idea how to answer it. I can learn in almost any way I have to, because in school, you are given the material, and you better learn it; no exceptions. If we had a choice of how we learn, throughout our entire lives, and were able to be grouped by classes with the same types of learners as ourselves, it would make the kids much more able to learn, and be creative. It would help us succeed and continue faster. Schools just group all students together, and don't give us enough time to be creative, and use our brains in ways that aren't always so logical. Kids need that to be able to grow and come into their own, and schools, just don't see that.
Sir Ken Robinson's video made me think about if I think that schools are taking away creativity. Schools teach us what the believe that we need to know to be successful in live. But there is many things that kids love and that gives them their creativity that is not taught in school. In the past when a teacher asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up I would say a dancer or a dance teacher. Many of them would tell me that is not a job I should want because it is hard to get into a good job that is in that field. That took my confidence away and took away my creativity I had in Dance.
Sir Ken Robinson’s video regarding "schools killing creativity?" makes me think more about how school really makes kids not want to make mistakes. They become scared of making mistakes because all their time in school shows them that mistakes are bad. They need to get better and try not to make them. Otherwise they get critized. Another thing this video made me think about was how we let people tell us what we can do and we believe them. We put that thought in our heads and keep it. Thinking they are right, which takes away that person’s creativity. Also I agree with all this because when I am in school I try to never raise my hand. I think that I might be wrong and I hate it when someone tells me that. I also agree with the fact that people place ideas in our heads which takes away our confidence and creativity. We seem to think we can not do things that we could of done when we were little. Our creativity gets striped away more and more as we learn different things in school. This makes me feel sad and want to build my creativity back up.
I really agreed with Sir Ken Robinson's lecture about "school killing creativity" because the public education system really is. When you graduate high school you are required to have almost 5 times as many math credits then fine arts credits because the notions in the past have always been that math, science, language arts and social studies are more important than any type of art. I think that your credits and classes you take should be geared more towards what you are interested in then what the schools think are in your best interests. If you want to grow up and be a singer then I think you should have the opportunity to focus more on that then math or some other class that may end up being irrelevant to you later. I feel like sometimes young people's dreams are crushed by the stereotype of what is smart and what is right.
Some of my thoughts on Sir Ken Robinson's video presentation is that I agree that schools are killing creativity. I know that I myself am sometimes afraid to raise my hand because it would be very embarrassing to get the answer wrong. Sometime even older kids are afraid to answer questions because it's not cool to be "smart". In some classes I feel the teachers block out creativity. Sitting in a classroom watching videos and taking notes everyday is not me using my sense of creativity.
I definitely agree with the idea that “schools are killing creativity”. The one thing that really took me to believing in this was when Mr. Robinson told the story of the young girl who needed to dance. He also made an amazing point on how we focus more on math and science than we do on the arts and whatnot. I think that math and science are very important, but at the same time, it’s so good for kids to get to just take a break from all of that in the middle of the day, and be able to go to an art class, or go to a music class. I think that at the high school level there is a bigger chance of getting to experience this. But, in the middle school and elementary school levels, it is very rare to get to participate in such activities. It also got me thinking when he said the part about how a kid who starts school this year will retire in 2065, so why are we preparing them for today’s problems rather than those of the future. I really agree with the way that he out this. It’s so true. Why are we teaching students about today’s problems when in reality they won’t be dealing with today’s problems, they will be dealing with the future problems, that we don’t even know are problems yet. So, yes, I do think that the school system is killing the creativity of the students.
I found the School VS.Creativity video to be very interesting. I think there were many good points in the video. For instance, we are often times told that wrong answers are unacceptable. Sir Ken Robin made the point that it's OK to be wrong and that sometimes being wrong can help you think more and achieve a correct answer. I also agreed with the point that school takes away our creativity rather than encourage us to use it. Rather than building it up as we get older(as a life skill),"we build it down."
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