Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Schools Vs. Creativity?
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 this
blog response after watching the video.Your response is due by 2:30p.m. the day we watch the video in class.
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I agreed with the man who spoke in the video. I think he makes a good point about dance; yes being smart is good, but all of us have bodies and everyone dances at some point, so why shouldn't we study dance? I like how he also explains that education requirements are also "inflaming". This makes sense because there's always more and more requirements to get a job, or to do what you want to do. I think a lot of the reason people don't carry out creativity is because they're worried about the money. "Starving artist" isn't a super encouraging phrase to professional artist wannabe's. Not too many people earn money off of art, or dance, or acting, or music, but if thats what you like, as long as you're not starving, I think you should do it. A lot of people have a fixed mindset I think about careers in creativity. I feel that a lot of people think you either have to be the best or you won't be anything.
Sir Ken Robinson’s presentation on creativity was really well presented. I enjoyed how he added jokes to keep the audience engaged. His presentation made me think back on when I was in kindergarten and had more imagination. Reflecting back to when I was younger made me realize that I had a pretty good imagination as a kid, but I have lost that imagination as the years passed. I agree that schools are killing creativity. Rarely do I get to do activities that I can be creative, especially the older I get. Sir Ken Robinson made me wonder if there is something that schools can do so that creativity is encouraged, not killed.
This video goes on to say that school takes the creativity out of school. School is very important, and it needs to be valued. But, children need to express themselves through their work. Education matters and it is necessary to go far in life, but sometimes school gets boring and children don't enjoy going. If schools strive to put more creativity into the classroom's learning, students will understand the subject so much more. Intelligence is important and you need to do what works for you. If you need to dance in order to think, let that happen!! Teacher's need to understand everyone's different methods on studying and they need to be supportive of that.
In the Sir Ken Robinson’s presentation I learn that when you work hard in school you will get a good degree but when you don’t you won’t get a good degree. But when you have a good degree you will get a job. You must have intelligence. Intelligence isn’t just a having a good degree you can excel in other departments. Just because you are good in school. There are other things you can do. Like if you love art. Artist are very intelligent because you can’t have a world selling painting with the snap of you fingers. Most people show their intelligence in different ways.
I agree with Sir Ken Robinson’s about schools killing creativity. I think that he makes a great point and that kids can’t always express their creativity in the ways they want to at schools. Not all kids get the chance or opportunity to do the thing that they are good at and enjoy. For example, some kids who are amazing at art and love to draw don’t always get into an art class or aren’t allowed to draw during class. These things kill creativity because teachers are setting limits on to what kids can and can’t do and if students can’t do the thing they love then they are going to lose the creativity. Also not all kids can do what they want they want during projects or essays and teachers again set certain limits or restrictions on what can be done. These restrictions can kill creativity because students aren’t able to do things in their own way, they have to follow the teacher's way and this teaches them not to be creative. After watching Sir Ken Robinson’s video presentation I do think that schools do kill students creativity and limit them on what they can and can’t do.
Sir Ken Robinson took an interesting look at education with the idea schools kill creativity. School's emphasize math and science which are very important but don't allow us to have many original ideas. We are often told don't be an artist, or musician because you won't succeed so we think those subjects aren't important. However, creativity is important and allows students to express themselves. School's should give students more opportunity to create a be original. He mentions at one point in the video about people who can't sit still and sitting in a classroom does not help them learn. These type of people can't express their talent in math or writing but through dancing or even a type of visual art. Educators are currently preparing us for jobs that may not exist yet so who is to say art won't be a bigger part of the next century?
I think that public education is different at each school. It all depends on the school. Here at Arapahoe, I feel that the school is very creativity based. I have been to a school were it was very education based. I felt that it did kill the creativity and did not really think about the kids. Although schools are part of everything "has to be right", I think parents are part of the problem. Parents tend to put to much pressure on kids. My parents really care about grades and tend to not really about the effort and the thought that was put into the work. Not a lot of parents are like this, but I do think it is a problem. In the video, he talked about how Shakespeare was once a child in school. I really thought about that because Shakespeare had to learn how to write somewhere and the only way he could do that was use his creativity. So in all, while public education is getting better, it still need to improve.
After watching Sir Ken Robinson’s video presentation it really has brought me to think more about how school clearly prioritizes education over the arts. School was originally modeled after industrialism which puts the subjects that help you get a job at the top of the importance list and the ones that are less likely at the bottom but as the world changes, arts are becoming more important. Children’s creativity is being smashed down to make room for them to learn more about the subjects that are considered more important rather than ones that help them nurture their talents in arts. Since everyone is being trained to be better at math and science, all the jobs are being taken up and there still aren’t enough people to fill the jobs in the art department because kids have been brainwashed to think that the only way they can be successful is to get a “practical job”. Some people learn better with a creative outlet and when they can’t access that, their educational balance is thrown off.
As a student, I can very much relate to what Sir Ken Robinson is talking about. I think that everyone is do caught up with getting a good grade that they forget to try new ideas. I am the same way. I think teachers should let students chose some new ideas instead of telling them exactly what to do. I wonder if students weren't told exactly what to do and how to do it, they would come up with their own ideas and try them out. For me, when I come up with my own ideas of what I would like to do for my school work, I grow more as a student and my creatives extends. Something I thought was cool in the video is how he said that teachers are preparing their students for jobs that don't even exist yet.
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 this blog response after watching the video.Your response is due by 2:30p.m. the day we watch the video in class.
Art and music make kids happy. Kids thrive to be able to do what they love. at is not just making things and being able to draw but its anything that your gifted with weather it is playing an instrument or a sport. Since kids thrive for art they should be able to d it in school they should make it a part of school and not just an elective that you hope to get but not always end up getting. The most useful parts of education are at the top and are the most important. "very brilliant and creative people think they are not because intelligent because they are good at arts" ? intelligent is dynamic... intelligence in wonderfully interactive.
Some people have to be moving to think. that is how i am. i like to move and be interactive and by just siting in a class and have some schools not make arts a priority i wish schools did. because there is a lot of creativity in schools everyone has their own way of thinking and working and arts help some people think.
I have to agree with most of what Sir Ken Robinson says. Schools are not creating unique smart beings; they are creating clones. Looking back at history, many of the most successful and celebrated people were pretty much hopeless in school. Leo Tolstoy flunked out of college and Thomas Edison was considered to stupid to learn anything by his teachers. Each of these examples were brilliant and extremely talented, but did not fit into the mold created for them in their schools. I wonder what would happen if schools tried to improve the skills that we already possess instead of trying to create skills that aren’t there and expunging the ones they don’t deem necessary.
Sir Ken Robinson’s video dealing with schools killing creativity had many good points to it. I pondered a bit on what he said what “creative” meant. He said it was, “the process of having an original ideas that have value. It is a process; not just random.” I thought that quote was very true because he talked about when kids are little they think of whatever they want. However, when they enter school the teachers want kids to learn in a very specific way and are distracted on trying to stay focused. They start to lose interest what their doing and stop having that enthusiastic mindset of being creative. This is kind of a mix of what I think of the video and what my own thoughts are but I enjoyed watching his Ted Talk.
In Sir Ken Robinsons video he talked a lot about school teaching us not to embrace our creativity. I think that in this generation especially that people are solely focused on being right, and if your not 100% right then you are 100% wrong, which isn't always true. People are guided more by finding the right answer than by the process it takes to learn it. The Picasso quote "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." really made me think how true the fact that little children are more imaginative and afraid of being wrong than people older than them. I don't know why when your younger people congratulate you fro trying, but when your older the fact that you tried doesn't matter as much. This really mad me reflect how in class I never want to try and answer a question if Im not positive about it. His Ted Talk was really inspiring because it was all true, and yet people still don't talk about it much. Overall I enjoyed the video and what Sir Ken Robinson was saying.
I thought that what Sir Ken Robinson said was pretty informational, especially the part when he talks about one of his friends, the dancer, and how teachers thought she was sick because she could not stop moving but really she just wanted to dance. When my brother was in 3rd grade his teacher though he had some kind of learning disability because he couldn't concentrate unless he was moving. He really can’t concentrate unless he’s moving because he likes to move, so he plays sports, he does his best when he plays sports. I think that schools do kill creativity, because even in art there is a certain way to do the project you are assigned. You can’t just do what you want with the project, you have to put your creativity aside and meet the teachers want a d needs.
Sir Ken Robinson’s video drawed attention and questions about whether schools killing kid’s creativity or not. “Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up” – Pablo Picasso. The video revolves around this idea that kids are born was such a creative side but as they get older that lose that. School is all about learning and completing assignments and doing homework, but what if a student has a talent that isn’t recognized in school? For example, playing guitar, drawing, cooking, a sport, dancing, etc. “ The whole idea of school is to produce university professors,” stated Sir Ken Robinson. Are kids learning to expand their creativity in school? The story of the dancer really stood out to me. This girl could not stay still in class and was always moving therefore the teacher thought she had a learning disorder. She went to the doctor with her mom and as the doctor was doing a checkup he turned on music. As soon as the music was heard, she started dancing and couldn’t stop. Nothing was wrong with her, she was a dancer. Soon after she got enrolled in a dance school and has a very successful career and is a multimillionaire. Kids have many different passions and talents outside of the school world that need but aren’t recognized. As Robinson said, “ We need to rethink the principles were teaching our children. It won’t do in the future.”
Sir Ken Robinson's video presentation was very informant overall about the entire topic of schools killing creativity. I agree with this completely, not just because I believe school is boring as every other student does at times. I agree with this because, I think that there is such a difference in learning and getting an education in something you want to, and then something you don't. Think about it. Creativity and love for learning is bound to killed when a student is forced to sit in and learn about topics that they are disinterested in. Rather than sitting in and being educated on something the student is interested in and actually wants to learn about. The quote by Picasso mentioned in the video really made me think, "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up". I feel, when children are younger they have much more creativity towards learning because they are eager to learn, but as they grow up and actually figure out what they want to learn more about their creativity is limited by schools who are shoving unwanted information down the throats of the students.
I think that he has a pretty good point. We sit in school or in a class for hours everyday while teachers put information in our heads that we may not even use. Industrialism is changing the way we learn.I think that we need to have more classes to express our creativity during the day. We could learn what we are really good at our what our talent is by letting us express yourself. The creativity could inspire us to do something that may change the world but if you never explore that aspect of your life while you're in school then you may not ever have the chance to procure what you may have done. On the other hand you need to make sure that you leave enough time in the year to teach the main subjects as well.
Sir Ken Robinson left me in wonder at whether I abandoned my creativity through the years and how many others have done so too. The monotony of schools in their lack of embracing creativity as much as math leaves little space for creative minds to practice their passions. School teaches us what we must learn but creativity allows us to take what we've learned and create something beautiful with it. Creativity is accepted in the school system but rarely spotlighted. If creativity could be imported into every subject like math or the sciences, teens would not have to let go of their creative side as they grew into adults and would be more inspired to do well in their studies.
My thoughts about Sir Ken Robinson's video presentation regarding "schools killing creativity?" is that its funny and it enhanced my thought of what education is and how adults see children as an educator. It also made me think of how people have different points of learning and that teacher are preparing us for things that don't exist yet like jobs or different skills. People think that if there isn't a kid that's not paying attention in class that they need to fix it to there standards, but there are some people that see that some kids don't learn the same way as others. So the next time you like of a kid fidgeting or not paying attention it's not because there sick or don't want to pay attention they just learn differently than others.
After watching Sir Ken Robinson’s video, I began to agree with many of his points that he had brought to light. In school, many people don’t raise their hands, because of the fear that they will be wrong. Like Robinson said, when we are children, growing up, we have it practically branded into our heads that if we are wrong, we should be ashamed. This video reminded me of a video we had watched earlier this year. This previous video talked about how students weren’t there YET, and how they had to be wrong sometimes to understand. Overall, I really enjoyed and agreed with this video because, in all honesty, school doesn’t put creativity first. They tell that we need this stuff, but most kids won’t need it in the future for the career that they choose and want to do. If someone wants to become an artist, do they really need to know Pythagorean Theorem? Schools don’t give students the choice on what subjects they want to focus on, they just assume that everyone will need this, so they should have it be the main subject. They make sure that the things that most students don’t enjoy or are challenged at are focused on. I know that some things that we are taught, we do need to learn, like math to do taxes, and the history of our country, but I feel like kids should be able to choose what they would like to spend the time that they are learning on something that they are interested in and something that they can be creative with.
Sir Ken Robinson made me wonder if educators are truly shutting students down for being creative. Which made me think back to Picasso's saying that “all kids start off as artists, but by the time they become adults we have lost all of our creativity.” I believe this happens to us because we are afraid to go out of our comfort zone and make mistakes, even if that means keeping our creativity inside. I was also drawn to what Sir Ken Robinson said “intelligence is diverse, its dynamic...and distinct” I wonder if teachers and educators even think about this? They need to know that being wrong is not that same thing as being creative.
I thought Sir Ken Robinson's video presentation was very interesting. He explained that schools are only teaching kids' brains, not their whole body. Which, I think, is true, because if you want your feet to learn how to dance, you have to take a dance class, if you want your voice to learn how to sing, you have to take a choir class or voice lessons. None of the things kids dream of becoming, (besides the kids wanting to be a teacher) are taught in school. Education is being used to make more teachers. Robinson stated, "People can't sit still if they are more passionate about something else other than education." Gillian Lynne found that the reason why she couldn't sit still in class, was because she wanted to be a dancer. She was more interested in dance, than what her teacher was teaching her about in science. People are being told what and how to do something and that's blocking creativity. And being wrong is not the same thing as being creative. Being creative is having the process of having an original idea. I agree that schools can kill creativity.
I agree with Sir Ken Robinson, I believe schools are toning down our creativity to make room for more ‘practical’ So to speak, jobs. Sure, we all need to know how to pay our taxes, or the IRS puts us in jail, but are we really going to need to know how to cut our pies into exact tenths? Sure, we do need math, language arts, science, and history. To be an architect, you need math. Still, creativity helps. I draw on all of my notes, it helps me focus, and I do better on tests. I can pair a drawing(s) to certain facts and events, but when we’re told we should not draw on our notes because we ‘aren't paying attention’, sometimes you think ‘why should I even draw in the first place?’ I even admit, I got in trouble for drawing a scene of all the WW2 countries as food, fighting over who had the best flavor (in that case, military power.) And when you’re constantly told not to do something, you start to think it’s wrong, and eventually, you just stop it all together. Plus, if you aren't good at drawing and you don't like it, and you have always loved law, sure, go be a lawyer. I believe everyone should get an equal chance, and I agree with Robinson. Maybe if you were actually told yes, you CAN get a career in the arts,we would have more students going to college and getting degrees. But as we grew up, we were told ‘you’ll never get a job in the arts, it’s impractical’ or, ‘artistry jobs never pay well’, or even, ‘art jobs just do not exist’. I think creativity is massively important within school.
I agree with everything Sir Ken Robinson had to say in his whole presentation. Schools are educating students with their minds and soon they will lose their creatively because they weren´t told to draw this or sing like that, they believe there is only one right way to do it because of school. For me im the type of person that never sits still in my seat. I always tap the ground to stay focused and it just helps me learn, I also can study easier if I make a dance move to a certain move to a word I had to study. Expressing throughout my creativity helps me become a better student.
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