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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I feel that school does kill creativity. We have to think in a certain way at school, educated references and strictly facts in unison. If teachers allowed to speak freely without adding their own opinion and are not afraid to be wrong, kids would be incredibly smart and open to life in general. Some kids are so creative but are silent at school because they are judged by their looks. Kids who dress in all black with piercings and snap backs who sit silently in class... have incredible thoughts. I speak to a lot of them and the are such bright people. People the will scoff and belittle you just with their looks and they have such amazing ideas but are afraid of being judged by other people. My point is, if you don't look educated in school, it will kill your creative vibe.
I agree, that creativity should be a more important factor than it has been previously. Being creative is an extremely significant quality in growing and maturing children, and I think that school might be dulling creativity. When he talks about how in school children are being taught that there is only a right or wrong answer, he's saying that's what is drowning out the creative side of kids. Also, as he talks about repetition, and how classes are always the same internationally, I believe it's blowing off creativity in the way that there isn't a wider range of options to choose from.
Children starting school this year will retire in 2065...That just seems really weird. Anyways, I agree with him. So many kids have amazing talents and they don't even use them properly because school doesn't let you use your creativity. If you aren't prepared to be wrong then you can't find out what you are good at from your mistakes. You have to do it a certain way at school. If you mess up, you get in trouble or like he said, Its the worst thing in the world to get it wrong. I don't know about you all but I learn so much from my mistakes. I also think what he said about how the teachers teach there kids from the waist up. No school teaches dance!! I think his topic is amazing and i agree with it so much.
I agree with this speaker about creativity. It is very important. But, I do not agree with him when he says that schools crush creativity. I feel that I am more creative now after 8 years of school than ever. I have been encouraged to grow in my creativity, and I have excelled in this subject. School does not "kill" creativity.
Children do have an extreme capacity for imagination, and school can take that away. We do not know our future for sure, and we are relying on teachers, principles and school districts to make us successful. People are more interested in getting a good grade then actually learning through your creativity and true interest. There is more focus on the main four subjects than anything else that can benefit a student in their adult life.
In the video we watched today, I really like what he said about growing out of creativity and not in creativity. I really agree with that. I really like that he's putting school vs. creativity. I don't think school gives you much opportunity to be creative. You get told how to do something and that is the right way to do it. Yes, there are many opportunities to get creative in school, but usually you get taught a way of doing something. I really like that he said that story about the little girl drawing "God" because that little girls teacher cut off her creativity. She was going to draw her own image of "God" but the teacher told her no one knew what he looked like, and that was it.
Sir Ken Robinson's video was true school is killing the students creativity. Students when they come to school there brain is only filled with the stuff they learn but when they get home they have hours and hours of homework which kills there creativity. If we didn't have that much homework we would be fine. But all of the teachers are teaching us to be professors but that is not what us kids want to do we want our freedom we want to do what we want in our future. School is killing our creativity cause we can't do what we want.
I think that Sir Ken Robinson’s video presentation is agreeable because creativity happens with the imagination and education fills your brain with knowledge. Because we are educated, it’s harder to be creative and come up with original ideas that happen with the imagination. Younger kids are less educated than older people, so since they don’t have much real knowledge, they make up their own and are very original. Small children are not afraid to make mistakes or be wrong.
My thoughts regarding Sir Ken Robinson's video "schools killing creativity" are that students can be wrong at times and that if someone doesn't learn to be wrong then they will never learn. Though many people could learn from their mistakes someone else could help to make the other person understand. Also many people/students have the potential/imagination to express their feelings. Now one ever knows what their future will hold for anyone.
This video made me realize how education really does take over our lives. We don't know what is going to happen in five years, we don't now what life will bring us. So why are we preparing ourselves for this? We invest all this money and time into learning, but what if something happens and in five years we don't need to know y=mx+b? When everyone on Earth is learning the same thing, our population is boring. We should all be different, unique. Although the education has improved over the years, it has also demolished our creativity.
I agree with the points that Sir Ken Robinson was making throughout his video regarding school killing creativity. At the beginning of the video, he said that when we’re kids, we aren’t afraid of being wrong, and if we aren’t sure, we'll just be creative and make something up. As we go through school and get older, however, we become afraid of being wrong, and we don’t want to speak up if we don’t know the answer. I find this to be very true, because when teachers give us tests and ask questions, we can end up with a bad grade if we answer incorrectly, so we all want to know the right answer all the time, which may not be possible. Another point Sir Ken Robinson made that I agreed with is that no teacher has ever taught a child dance the way they teach children mathematics. Even though dance may not seem as important, it brings out creativity and individuality in kids, and its something they do all the time, in a dance class or not. So why cram math into their heads all day, when dance could be just as valuable and teach them just as much? Sir Ken Robinson made a lot of points that I agreed with, but these were just a couple. School killing creativity isn’t something we think about often, but when we do think about it logically, what Sir Ken Robinson is saying just might be true.
He said that creativity is as impotent as the subjects it self. He says that kids are ok with being wrong and so they have to be wrong and be ok with being wrong because if you were never wrong than you would never be right. It talks about how all great people have to start as a child and they grow up and their teacher and there parents are very influences in our life as young children. He also says that the arts have to be more relevant because now the arts are becoming less and less impotent and children are learning from waste up and that this is going to become a world of only math science social studies and language arts. If we don't have arts than we wont learn as well because if wont stick in our brains. Now if you have a degree you can still be where you were when you didn't because the jobs require more than just a degree and they need to have more and more things. So he really says we need creativity to be a really good world.
In the video, he talked bout how we grow out of creativity and I 100% agree because as we grow older, we learn the basic skills such as math, writing, reading, science, and history. But we never learn about dancing or singing or music or anything to refresh the brain until college. I personally think there aren't enough opportunities to be creative in school.
My thoughts regarding Sir Ken Robinson’s video presentation regarding “schools killing creativity” are that I actually agree with him and his views and arguments. He mentioned that the children that are being born now, will retire in the year 2064. He said, “How are we supposed to know what to teach the children today when we don’t even know what the world is supposed to be like. He also mentioned that we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it because of education. Everyone is born an artist, and just not everyone stays with it during their lives. In every education system, art and humanities are on the lowest levels, as mathematics and science are at the top. The creativity comes from the art and dance compartments, not math and science. Professors “live in their heads.” The whole world is engulfed in reliability. More people will be graduated in the next couple years than the last 100 years of people have. This is because of technology and such. Kids and people might be afraid to express their ideas and opinions because they might be afraid of being judged, even though their idea might be great! School kills the creative vibe produced by kids.
It truly seemed he tried to make a good point of the education system destroying creativity but he would slip into unneeded jokes and comments that went off from the main idea for a moment. He does talk about how children start off with the ability of “If they don’t know, they’ll have a go” but as they grow they lose that ability. With the good points made, it seemed like he forced some jokes in here and there, probably to keep people in the room. He mentions about how more people will be graduating from education since the beginning of history. I wonder why he thought of telling this to the world while mixing comedy in. I suppose if there was no comedy in the show there would be less who paid attention and less who would arrive. Anyways, I suppose he got his point across in a slightly understandable way and explaining somewhat how as life goes on, risks are taken less.
I thought. That he had a great point at how the person stated that schools are destroying creativity art is important too and it needs to have just as much attention as math and English do this is like the subject of school uniforms.
I think that school does kill creativity because education only cares about your academics. When they get budget cuts they stop the music or art programs. Why not cut an academic elective. Its all about Math, Science, History, English, ect. Don't you think arts should be just as important as academics? I do.
School obviously kills creativity as you progress through the years. The education system makes it seem that math, english, and history are more important classes than art, dance, or any other performing art subject. We have english and history classes every day while we have dance maybe once or twice a week, if we even have it at all. All of the students work is going towards the math and english instead of art or other classes that force you to have creative thinking. So while we still want to be creative, there really just is not enough time to because all of our time is focused on more "important" classes.
I agree that when we go to school to learn stuff for life that we should be learning things that will help us farther down the road. But how do we know what to learn when we don't know what we will need to know 20-30 years down the road.
The great thing about being a kid is its ok to make mistakes but just like schools drain the creativity from kids they also drain the ability to make mistakes. You learn from your mistakes but how can you learn if you never make these mistakes.
Schools drain the creativity that kids have. They also drain the curiosity kids have to learn to do new things. Like draw and play an instrument. We tell kids at a young age that what they need to do is nothing creative.
In my opinion this isnt ok we need to have the ability to choose what we want to do weather it be a teacher or painting. What ever it is you need to let the kid deside so that they have a say in who they become....
I think that the whole school "killing" creativity thing really depends on where you are. For instance, my previous school had a habit of standing by their strict set of rules, not leaving much leeway for the students to think for themselves. Arapahoe, on the other hand, is the total opposite. Here they encourage you to try new things and express yourself freely. It is like a breath of fresh air. :)
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I feel that school does kill creativity. We have to think in a certain way at school, educated references and strictly facts in unison. If teachers allowed to speak freely without adding their own opinion and are not afraid to be wrong, kids would be incredibly smart and open to life in general. Some kids are so creative but are silent at school because they are judged by their looks. Kids who dress in all black with piercings and snap backs who sit silently in class... have incredible thoughts. I speak to a lot of them and the are such bright people. People the will scoff and belittle you just with their looks and they have such amazing ideas but are afraid of being judged by other people. My point is, if you don't look educated in school, it will kill your creative vibe.
I agree, that creativity should be a more important factor than it has been previously. Being creative is an extremely significant quality in growing and maturing children, and I think that school might be dulling creativity. When he talks about how in school children are being taught that there is only a right or wrong answer, he's saying that's what is drowning out the creative side of kids. Also, as he talks about repetition, and how classes are always the same internationally, I believe it's blowing off creativity in the way that there isn't a wider range of options to choose from.
Children starting school this year will retire in 2065...That just seems really weird. Anyways, I agree with him. So many kids have amazing talents and they don't even use them properly because school doesn't let you use your creativity. If you aren't prepared to be wrong then you can't find out what you are good at from your mistakes. You have to do it a certain way at school. If you mess up, you get in trouble or like he said, Its the worst thing in the world to get it wrong. I don't know about you all but I learn so much from my mistakes. I also think what he said about how the teachers teach there kids from the waist up. No school teaches dance!! I think his topic is amazing and i agree with it so much.
I agree with this speaker about creativity. It is very important. But, I do not agree with him when he says that schools crush creativity. I feel that I am more creative now after 8 years of school than ever. I have been encouraged to grow in my creativity, and I have excelled in this subject. School does not "kill" creativity.
Children do have an extreme capacity for imagination, and school can take that away. We do not know our future for sure, and we are relying on teachers, principles and school districts to make us successful. People are more interested in getting a good grade then actually learning through your creativity and true interest. There is more focus on the main four subjects than anything else that can benefit a student in their adult life.
In the video we watched today, I really like what he said about growing out of creativity and not in creativity. I really agree with that. I really like that he's putting school vs. creativity. I don't think school gives you much opportunity to be creative. You get told how to do something and that is the right way to do it. Yes, there are many opportunities to get creative in school, but usually you get taught a way of doing something. I really like that he said that story about the little girl drawing "God" because that little girls teacher cut off her creativity. She was going to draw her own image of "God" but the teacher told her no one knew what he looked like, and that was it.
Sir Ken Robinson's video was true school is killing the students creativity. Students when they come to school there brain is only filled with the stuff they learn but when they get home they have hours and hours of homework which kills there creativity. If we didn't have that much homework we would be fine. But all of the teachers are teaching us to be professors but that is not what us kids want to do we want our freedom we want to do what we want in our future. School is killing our creativity cause we can't do what we want.
I think that Sir Ken Robinson’s video presentation is agreeable because creativity happens with the imagination and education fills your brain with knowledge. Because we are educated, it’s harder to be creative and come up with original ideas that happen with the imagination. Younger kids are less educated than older people, so since they don’t have much real knowledge, they make up their own and are very original. Small children are not afraid to make mistakes or be wrong.
My thoughts regarding Sir Ken Robinson's video "schools killing creativity" are that students can be wrong at times and that if someone doesn't learn to be wrong then they will never learn. Though many people could learn from their mistakes someone else could help to make the other person understand. Also many people/students have the potential/imagination to express their feelings. Now one ever knows what their future will hold for anyone.
This video made me realize how education really does take over our lives. We don't know what is going to happen in five years, we don't now what life will bring us. So why are we preparing ourselves for this? We invest all this money and time into learning, but what if something happens and in five years we don't need to know y=mx+b? When everyone on Earth is learning the same thing, our population is boring. We should all be different, unique. Although the education has improved over the years, it has also demolished our creativity.
I agree with the points that Sir Ken Robinson was making throughout his video regarding school killing creativity. At the beginning of the video, he said that when we’re kids, we aren’t afraid of being wrong, and if we aren’t sure, we'll just be creative and make something up. As we go through school and get older, however, we become afraid of being wrong, and we don’t want to speak up if we don’t know the answer. I find this to be very true, because when teachers give us tests and ask questions, we can end up with a bad grade if we answer incorrectly, so we all want to know the right answer all the time, which may not be possible. Another point Sir Ken Robinson made that I agreed with is that no teacher has ever taught a child dance the way they teach children mathematics. Even though dance may not seem as important, it brings out creativity and individuality in kids, and its something they do all the time, in a dance class or not. So why cram math into their heads all day, when dance could be just as valuable and teach them just as much? Sir Ken Robinson made a lot of points that I agreed with, but these were just a couple. School killing creativity isn’t something we think about often, but when we do think about it logically, what Sir Ken Robinson is saying just might be true.
He said that creativity is as impotent as the subjects it self. He says that kids are ok with being wrong and so they have to be wrong and be ok with being wrong because if you were never wrong than you would never be right. It talks about how all great people have to start as a child and they grow up and their teacher and there parents are very influences in our life as young children. He also says that the arts have to be more relevant because now the arts are becoming less and less impotent and children are learning from waste up and that this is going to become a world of only math science social studies and language arts. If we don't have arts than we wont learn as well because if wont stick in our brains. Now if you have a degree you can still be where you were when you didn't because the jobs require more than just a degree and they need to have more and more things. So he really says we need creativity to be a really good world.
In the video, he talked bout how we grow out of creativity and I 100% agree because as we grow older, we learn the basic skills such as math, writing, reading, science, and history. But we never learn about dancing or singing or music or anything to refresh the brain until college. I personally think there aren't enough opportunities to be creative in school.
My thoughts regarding Sir Ken Robinson’s video presentation regarding “schools killing creativity” are that I actually agree with him and his views and arguments. He mentioned that the children that are being born now, will retire in the year 2064. He said, “How are we supposed to know what to teach the children today when we don’t even know what the world is supposed to be like. He also mentioned that we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it because of education. Everyone is born an artist, and just not everyone stays with it during their lives. In every education system, art and humanities are on the lowest levels, as mathematics and science are at the top. The creativity comes from the art and dance compartments, not math and science. Professors “live in their heads.” The whole world is engulfed in reliability. More people will be graduated in the next couple years than the last 100 years of people have. This is because of technology and such. Kids and people might be afraid to express their ideas and opinions because they might be afraid of being judged, even though their idea might be great! School kills the creative vibe produced by kids.
It truly seemed he tried to make a good point of the education system destroying creativity but he would slip into unneeded jokes and comments that went off from the main idea for a moment. He does talk about how children start off with the ability of “If they don’t know, they’ll have a go” but as they grow they lose that ability. With the good points made, it seemed like he forced some jokes in here and there, probably to keep people in the room. He mentions about how more people will be graduating from education since the beginning of history. I wonder why he thought of telling this to the world while mixing comedy in. I suppose if there was no comedy in the show there would be less who paid attention and less who would arrive. Anyways, I suppose he got his point across in a slightly understandable way and explaining somewhat how as life goes on, risks are taken less.
I thought. That he had a great point at how the person stated that schools are destroying creativity art is important too and it needs to have just as much attention as math and English do this is like the subject of school uniforms.
I think that school does kill creativity because education only cares about your academics. When they get budget cuts they stop the music or art programs. Why not cut an academic elective. Its all about Math, Science, History, English, ect. Don't you think arts should be just as important as academics? I do.
School obviously kills creativity as you progress through the years. The education system makes it seem that math, english, and history are more important classes than art, dance, or any other performing art subject. We have english and history classes every day while we have dance maybe once or twice a week, if we even have it at all. All of the students work is going towards the math and english instead of art or other classes that force you to have creative thinking. So while we still want to be creative, there really just is not enough time to because all of our time is focused on more "important" classes.
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I agree that when we go to school to learn stuff for life that we should be learning things that will help us farther down the road. But how do we know what to learn when we don't know what we will need to know 20-30 years down the road.
The great thing about being a kid is its ok to make mistakes but just like schools drain the creativity from kids they also drain the ability to make mistakes. You learn from your mistakes but how can you learn if you never make these mistakes.
Schools drain the creativity that kids have. They also drain the curiosity kids have to learn to do new things. Like draw and play an instrument. We tell kids at a young age that what they need to do is nothing creative.
In my opinion this isnt ok we need to have the ability to choose what we want to do weather it be a teacher or painting. What ever it is you need to let the kid deside so that they have a say in who they become....
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I think that the whole school "killing" creativity thing really depends on where you are. For instance, my previous school had a habit of standing by their strict set of rules, not leaving much leeway for the students to think for themselves. Arapahoe, on the other hand, is the total opposite. Here they encourage you to try new things and express yourself freely. It is like a breath of fresh air. :)
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