Tuesday, September 10, 2019
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 3:40p.m. the day we watch the video in class.
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I feel as though he believes that creativity is just as important as education and knowledge. However, in most cases, creativity is looked past and rather people see education as a better quality to have. I personally think that education should not outshine creativity in any circumstance because it's what makes you different from other people, and creativity is a start for every solution, art piece, you name it. Has a boring but educated person EVER made a difference in this world? Just think about it. MLK: what brought him to his successes wasn't just blending in with the rest of his community; it was coming up with an idea of significance that made a difference among the world. As you can see, creativity can do amazing things, so why deprive kids of it?
After listening to Sir Ken Robinson, I have certainly changed my viewpoint on schools killing many kid's creativity. Even though numerous schools are working for conclusions, many students continue to loose their creative mindset. Schools are not striving to improve the knowledge of the students, they are not giving students a chance to share their creative thoughts with the world. I wonder if public systems education was changed from academic excellence to more arts and creativity, would that inspire more to kids to become artists?
He says that he believes creativity is as important in the school system as literacy. He says that kids will take a chance and aren't afraid to be wrong. Your creativity is hurt if you are afraid to be wrong. I think that these things are noticeable. Although some people are able to still be very creative while they still have fears. You can get a good paying job in the arts, but you can also get a good paying job in literacy. You have to be good at both of those things though in order to get a job in either. So if you are afraid to be wrong then you won't be as good at what you are trying to do. Although you can learn to be better at those things and as you learn about those things your fear to be wrong when doing those things will slowly fade. So, although I do agree with some of his points I think that you can learn to break away from those fears of being wrong when you learn about the things you have fears about.
This video talks about how children are all creative in their own ways. Some, may seem more talented than others, but in reality, they have just had the opportunity to let those talents shine while others are still waiting for their moment. I believe that the basis of this idea can be held true throughout our entire lives. For example, people may not have an opinion because they chose that position over the other option, but rather they have yet to be exposed to the other opinion. However, there is another position to this. Many argue that rather than becoming creative, we are born creative and grow out of it. But in my personal opinion, humankind evolves rather than devolves. If you have a growth mindset, you will learn and grow into a better person, but if you have a fixed mindset, you are not “growing down”, you are just not improving. For example, if everyone is born as a “good singer”, then no one would be able to improve or stand out. However, if everyone is born with the ability to become a good singer, then many people may pursue singing, which makes them unique.
In "Schools Vs. Creativity" the man states how important educating well is, and creativity in children's view. It makes me wonder if my kids my age including me will be well educated for when we are older and have families. He says we get educated out of creativity as we get older, he also claims that math is very important but so are the arts. I wonder if we should start teaching kids to be more creative and what the outcome of that would be. We are mainly basing people on how smart they are on academic ability, and if someone has other strengths we don't see it. I question if we become more artistic our brains would work differently.
This video makes me think about the fact that some things that may not seem as important in school, are just as important. We are forced to take classes like math and science, but we aren't taught actual social skills, things that could truly be helpful for living our lives! Yes, of course we need to be taught math, languages, science, but things like art and dance, are 100% as important. We aren't living just to get caught up in school to get a good college education then work for 3/4 of our lives. We need to be able to truly live, because not everything is about that. Do what you love and what you believe in. I completely agree.
Education leads us to the future. If you are not prepared to be wrong you don't do anything original. It's important to have a class that educates in other fields other than math, language arts, history, and science. Education is taking away creative abilities from kids. Human ecology.
Children aren't afraid of making mistakes. Children are creative and as they grow up they grow out of creativity possibly because of education, the fear of making mistakes. What is public education for? What is the result, who succeeds from it? People who are extremely creative will not believe they are because they aren't good at school. Intelligence is dynamic. People are being forced to fit everything they think of and come up with into a small space with not much room for creativity. I think we should continue what we are doing in school but we need some parts of learning to be free and creative. We should be offering multiple ways for people to learn. When people don't succeed they assume it's because they aren't good at that thing. I think it is because they aren't being given different ways to interpret what they are learning and process it the way that is best for them.
-Julia Dunn
I think that he makes a really good point about school killing creativity. At my middle school we would always put language arts and math before everything else, and they would put all electives last. I think that its really important to include electives in school because kids aren't always going to grow up to be what teachers think they're gonna be. Creativity between people is the only thing that's keeping everyone from being exactly the same. If nobody was creative, we'd all be exactly the same so that's why I think that teachers and adults need to make sure to include creativity in schools.
The speaker believed that the most important skills for jobs were the most important in schools. The more creative skills are of less value because there are fewer jobs and the degrees aren't as important for those skills. He thinks people need to rethink the education system to value creativity more. He thinks there aren't many opportunities for creative people in school systems, but this TED talk was several years ago, so his ideas may be slightly outdated. There are more job opportunities for creative people more recently.
We are destroying kids creativity by saying there is only one right answer, because when you aren't afraid of being wrong, then you can think of things other haven't thought of. Since our education is only based on one correct answer. We also don't really take other activities as seriously as math or science, such as dance which could also help with people's health because all students do right now is focus on what they and do with their head and not they're body. We need to think of education as diverse, and if your not prepared to be wrong, you won't be original. Our education needs to teach kids to change the world in their on ways, without being afraid to be wrng.
In the video "Schools vs. creativity" by Sir Ken Robinson, prevails the idea that in school teachers need to allow or give opportunities for students to be creative. Education is supposed to take us into the future that has concepts that we can not grasp, states Sir ken Robinson. He was trying to state that education is good because without it we as people would not grow or get to know the earth better. Creativity allows kids to use there imagination so every kid is original. Creativity should be on the same status as other subjects such as languages and math, because without creativity we would not have diversity and we would not learn new things. The most important subjects are based off of the best job opportunities. I believe in what the speaker was saying. Creativity is important to have in our life and in education. He stated "original ideas have value" in the future we will need more original ideas to grow in the world and understand more concepts about life and earth.
I think that Sir Kens thoughts about what education is true, arts and creativity is not super encouraged. It's there for who have remained artists, and wish to continue in their creativity. Sir Ken pointed out that many grow up to be fearful of being wrong, which is true in a sense. I have a fear of being wrong or not good enough, most people do. The Picasso quote he used definitely has truth in it that all children are born artists, its continuing being an artist that's hard.
During the TedTalk presentation by Sir Ken Robinson, he talked about the connection between the educational systems and the creativity of children. Everyone is in some way or another invested in education, for it is what is going to determine and get us to the progressive future. All kids have talent and innovation. However, their creativity is often altered by education, and things like math and english is often more emphasized and important than creativity through the arts. Unlike adults, kids are willing to be wrong from a young age, but education is based on being right and not making mistakes. Robinson noted that we get educated out of creativity and that the arts are always at the bottom of the importance in schools around the world. A degree is not not going to get us as far in life and the workforce like it used to because education and the need for it is inflating. But not all kids work with the educational system, for some kids have to move to think, which is restricted by stereotypical classrooms. Education should be changed to meet how kids function.
Mr. Ken Robinson in TedTalk was talking about his thoughts about education and creativity. He told us that all kids have talent and potential to invent something new, but in school everyone is focusing more at english, math,science or history and art and creativity is less important. Kids are suppose to try to not make mistakes at school to have good grades and creativity is based on making mistakes and trying new things. I personally thing that the education system should be a little different just to let kids develop their talents and creativity and focus a little bit less on the serious subjects even though they're definitely important too.
During the Ted Talk with Sir Ken Robinson, he talked about how schools have taken out peoples creativity. Schools make people scared to fail, people are scared to go out of their way to try something new. If someone axles at something like dance, music, or sports they only have certain classes they can take to work on their skills. Children are being told that they are not going to make it as artist, or chefs, or dancers. People believe this because you have to have a certain level of skill to make it into specialty schools. People are starting to axel in the core classes so that they can get into collage and get ordinary jobs. If schools offered these specialty classes students would be more likely to fallow their passion.
During the TedTalk presentation by Sir Ken Robinson, he talks about how schools are destroying creativity. He talks about how all kids have music and art talents, but they are not being used in school. Instead, the focus is on subjects that kids potentially won't even use in their future careers. He also points out how young kids are not afraid to be wrong, but in the school system, kids are taught that mistakes are frowned apoun. Speaking from experience, many students are nervous to give answers in class because of the fear of being wrong. Sir Ken Robinson suggests that the modern education system should focus more on arts and teach kids that it is ok to be wrong.
During the TedTalk presentation with Sir Ken Robinson, he talks about how school have taken away children's creativity. Schools have scared kids to fail, people are scared to be themselves, scared of answering a question in class,and scared to show your true colors. CHildren have been told that becoming an artist isn't an option you have to get an educated job like a doctor. Sir Ken Robinson teach people to not be afraid of anything and that it's great to be creative.
Madalyn Murphy
Creativity has a very changeable definition, but most people agree that to be creative is to be original or abstract. In Sir Ken Robinson's Ted Talk he defined it as "original ideas that have value". Robinson believes that school is having a negative impact on creativity, we are taught that the wrong is punishable, and the right is rewarded. That leads us to not allowing ourselves to become vulnerable, and we stop being creative. However, I have noticed as an older student, teachers and coaches are trying to encourage us once again to be creative. We are encouraged to take a shot in the dark over a question we may not know, and participate things that we may not feel comfortable with. So this seems to create a confusing start and stop relationship. Is it possible to stop and start creativity? With practice, maybe we can still pick it up again, but I believe, as Picasso says "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.".
In “School vs. Creativity” Sir Ken Robinson was the speaker in the video, and was saying that school does not understand the importance of creativity. This hurts the speaker because in his opinion, kids have unlimited amounts of creativity and in a way school will reprogram the kids out of their creativity. According to this man school will re educate kids to grow out of their creativity from a young age instead of nurturing the creativity into nourished knowledge along with that child’s creativity. From this video I got a perspective that the kids would be better off with both knowledge but also with creativity. This speaker gets his point across through jokes, which shows how creativity can get the point across, just as well as the traditional way. He sees that the main problem with the modern edjucation system is it’s structure. This is because the modern day degree can’t truley get you what it used to get you. This main point that caught my ear was the fact that the non-traditional way of going about edjucation is just as important as the traditional way. I got this point when he was talking about the ballerina.
During the Ted Talk Sir Ken Robinson talked about a connection between schools and loss of creativity. He talks about how much schools value Math and English but they do not focus on the arts that allow kids to express their creativity. He also explains schools train us for certain jobs and they punish us when we don't follow the path they have intended for us. All kids have creativity but schools and education are changing the way we evolve, he talked about how as kids we have no fears about being creative and expressing out ideas but throught the years we became scared of being wrong. He said "original ideas have value" if all schools are retracting are creative ability by giving us minimal options our world is going to go to be the same and inevitably boring. He told a story of a young girl who would always move and couldn't stay still, they went to the doctor and left the girl in a room alone with music and she started dancing. The doctor told her mom nothing was wrong with her but instead she was a dancer, so they took her to a dance school and she eventually grew up to be a extremely successful dancer. They didnt tell her to calm down and give her meds but they let her express her creative ability without restricting her. Sir Ken Robinson teaches people that everyone has a opportunity to change the world if there certify doesn't get diminished by people telling them that what there doing is wrong.
I wonder why we are so interested in education. I am interested that he said if you're not prepared to be wrong you will never be original. academic ability took over schools. intelligence is diverse and dynamic. we all have different ways of learning. I think this video is both accurate but not at the same time. it is accurate because most arts are an elective in this school, and are not considered as important. but it is untrue because some creativity can be in core classes. overall if I had to chosse I would say it is accurate.
In the video "schools killing creativity" i think that schools should stop kids from being crative because at schools teacher always tell kids not to be cravtive because they should be fouces on what they are learning.Creativity help people with a lot more then people really think.
After watching the TED Talk video about education, I am lead to believe that education and schools take away from a student's creativity. The speaker explained that kids grow out of creativity, rather then into it. He also quoted Pablo Picasso who said, "All children are born artists, the problem is to remain an artist as we grow up." As we are young, we have a lot of creativity, but as we grow older, we become more focused on school, grades, college, and careers. The speaker on the TED Talk explained that our world we live in is so focused on being successful and focusing on the future, instead of living in the moment, and having fun as kids and expressing ourselves. In the end, the part that stood out to me most was when the speaker told a story about a girl who was thought to have a learning disability, but was mistaken. Her teachers thought that because she fidgeted in class she had a disability, when really, she was just a talented dancer who needed to dance, to learn. The story demonstrates that our world is so focused on education that we think everything revolves around it, when it is only one part of our life.
I didn't really understand it, but I feel like he was basically saying that everyone has a spot somewhere and you do things for a reason.
After watching the TED Talk video, "schools killing creativity" it goes on to explain that school does not understand the importance of students having creativity. The speaker believes that school makes kids scared to fail. He also talks about how kids should be more focused on what they are passionate about instead of focusing on things in school that they aren't passionate about.
Haley Olona
Throughout the video of "schools killing creativity" it spoke of how schools and education in general put what the world assumes is what is needed the most to get a good job. Mathematics and Sciences, as well as being well read became top subject to be important to learn. Picasso had a quote about that children are all artists, its remaining an artist is the challenging part. Schools don't place arts highly but do provide classes, thus showing how in the educational world that creativity is not considered very important. Yet without creativity where is the new ideas to make the world a better place? In the video Sir Ken Robinson spoke of how schools teach people to fear being wrong and to making mistakes, yet without mistakes how do new ideas take shape?
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