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 think that Sir Ken Robinson brings up some good points about how school kills creativity. It really got me thinking about how math and science are held to a higher standard that arts and music. I think that they should emphasize art and music programs for people who want to be a musician, thespian or artist or even a dancer. Although math and science is still important, they should give kids a better opportunity and vision to kids who want to pursue careers in art, and legitimize them a bit more. I think Ken brings up good points and I really enjoyed the video.
In the "School vs Creativity" TED Talk, he talks about how he believes that creativity is just as important as education. He believe as children grow older they loose their creativity because common core. In school they tell students to focus more on math, science, and history not art, music, and dance. HE believes that intelligence is dynamic and interactive, meaning that one person's brain is well rounded and they think about math, science, history, art, music, and dance not limiting themselves to one talent or skill. I believe that he is correct because students need to have experience in all areas of education. Everyone is a different thinker and some of their thinking works best during practice of that talent.
My thoughts are, why don't schools encourage creativity in their classes,and are we all growing out of creativity when we go to collage? If we wanted to keep our creativity what do we do? I really think school kills 50% of our creativity
I agree with some of the points that Sir Ken Robinson stated in his speech, "School v Creativity". Schools make classes so strict. We have to be in a science class, math class, history class, and a language arts class. Some students do not want to have a job that includes world history, math, science, or language arts. Robinson said that schools are killing creativity because they do not have kids take dance classes, art classes, or singing classes. I believe that if there were more classes like dance, or art that students had to take maybe they would enjoy going to school more. Why aren't students required to take more classes that aren't so academically based? Would students enjoy school more? Would school be easier for some students if they were allowed to take different kinds of classes like these? While math, science, language arts, and history are all very important, more art and music classes could give students more opportunity.
I think this video is very interesting and makes me think about things that I quit because they were "frowned upon." He tells us that schools make kids scared to make a mistake which I believe is a true statement. If mistakes are made we get a bad grade, we aren't rewarded for mistakes which makes us nervous to take risks. Like Sir Robinson said, "they teach us out of creativity," when teachers teach us a way to do things we forget what we thought could be right and only use the correct way. This video will make me think more creatively and try mt best to keep my creativity.
Sir Ken Robinson states in the "Do Schools Kill Creativity?" TED Talk, that the way that schools are structured and how they are ran are killing students creativity. He talks about how math and english are more valued than other subjects such as dance or music. I think that the reason they are valued over other subjects is because like Ken said in the video, students are put through school and eventually see the arts as something they can’t do on the future. I agree to a certain point with the statements Ken is making, I agree that schools are valuing subjects over others which are causing students to drop and forget about what they love to do. I think that school is very important for students, but the structure of school could be improved. A good structure would be a school where the students can take risks, like what they want, and still learn everything that needs to be taught.
The video of Sir Ken Robinson's video makes me really think about the school systems. I agree with him a lot because it seems that looking back through elementary school I can see a dramatic difference from year to year with less creative activities. It reminds me of a movie a saw called Valley Uprising. The movie is about the evolution of rock climbing in Yosemite Valley. It reminds me of the 1950's when it was a generally bland time. But how a small group of climbers shook off the conformity and created rock climbing as we know it. But in the process the climbers were strongly looked down upon. I feel like it relates to the school system because right now we are in the 1950s. And we need to "Shake of the conformity" and be more creative.
Even known shown is a place where you learn new things and carry those subjects through life, but creativity is barley shown. One of the main goals for teachers to teach, and for you to learn is for you get a degree and get a job. But where is creativity? It is barley shown in the papers you write, or the assignments you are assigned. Even when teachers tell you "write what you want" there are still rules to follow. It's hard for kids to find there hidden talents, or there creativity is stopped due to the fear of being wrong in school and the freedom to think freely is hard in school.
My thoughts about the video is how weird it is that schools are killing creativity because the fact that the make you do more classes of academics more than ones that you could actually make a living out of. For example for me I would much rather do the same amount of tech studies classes as Spanish classes because both I could use in my future. I want to be an engineer when I grow up but it would be hard if I don't learn anything about at school. It would be hard to make a living out of anything if schools don't give you a chance to practice it and learn it when you are learning about something that won't benefit you in the future.
The public education system is taught in a way that supports some types of learners, but not others. Some people may be good or bad at math, but public schools teach them both the same way. This results in people's creative integrity to be destroyed in some cases, because in order to succeed they must drop their passions and creativity.
In Sir Ken Robinson’s “Do schools Kill Creativity?” TED talk, he says that some schools are teaching students to be scared of being wrong and that being wrong is a bad thing. Students need to learn that it's okay to be wrong and to think outside of the box. He also brings up that music and dancing are just as important as math and science, but we aren't taught music like we are math. It isn't a required subject. I agree because some people need to move around or be more interactive because that is how they learn the best. It also stimulates other parts of your brain.
I agree with when Ken Robinson said that it is important to teach other things like math and language arts. We are not teached things like art or sports like we are things like math. He says that should change and I agree. He says people are judged on how they do on the education system even if they have another talent like arts or sports. I agree with when he says we are killing creativity because kids are pressured to be good at the things that are taught at school. There should be just as good teaching for other things outside of school.
I do think that schools kill creativity, I think that school is more focused on scores than actually developing knowledge in an interesting, creative manner, and that people have the potential to be more interesting if they weren't grated down at school, and that school often destroys humans' natural desire to collect knowledge. I think that the human race could develop better and quicker if people weren't constrained in the manner they are. People are getting used to this idea, but I still don't think any solution to this problem is being executed properly, because we are still so limited in what we can develop, creative or not, and limited in how we can use our talent.
I think that this is a very interesting concept. He is talking about a way to let creativity flow throughout the school as if it were another core curriculum. I think this is a great idea because it gets the student away from worrying about test scores, and how they are going to study for everything, but just gives them time to be creative, and express themselves. By doing this I believe that a result will be the test scores will go up because they aren't surrounded by the idea of it all throughout school. I do think this can be a very useful idea for the future, they just have to go about doing it the right way.
I totally agree with Ken Robinson. Schools today still reflect schools many years ago even though the jobs they are attempting to train them for. I think schools need to change. In school I have really no main classes that reflect creativity, they all just try to prepare me for college. Colleges also want after school activities. By the time I am done with school, hockey, and homework, I am so tired and don’t want to do anything. There is no time for art, music, dance, design or anything that expresses creativity which is what we will need in our jobs. I think we need to change. If we change the credit requirements and the way colleges look at candidates, than I think we would be better preparing our children for their futures.
I think this presentation is very interesting. Sir Ken Robinson points out that schools focus more on academics than other creative pursuits. I think this is true because subjects like math and language are required while art and music are optional. This shows how humans value certain skills, and discourage other lesser valued areas of expertise. But this train of thought may discourage people from following their true passion, and that is not very good for a person’s well being. I wonder if in the future school curriculum will change to be more like what Sir Robinson may want, academics and the arts to be taught and encouraged side by side.
I wonder that if there were different ways to educate people other than the regular curriculum than how would people to then. I realize that there are some other places like that but I don’t feel like that the places that do don’t explore all ways of thinking and it could really help students if there were more places like that. The video made me question whether I strayed from a carrier that I could have had if I stuck with some of my artistic interests and makes me want to start to pursue those things again.
The video by Sir Ken Robinson made me think of how the world really is crushing creativity. I wonder why dance, art, and music are secondary subjects apart from math, language arts, and social studies. Creativity is what makes personality in people. This video helped me realize that. I hope schools will have the arts as a more encouraged class, just as much as math. Like Sir Ken Robinson, I think schools should make the arts as important as social studies, language arts, and math.
I agree with Sir Ken Robinson's about schools not valuing creative arts over core subjects. In school the arts are not valued and in the future there will be thousands of new jobs that need people that practiced the arts but sense the public education system does not priorates the arts those jobs will never be filled. I have a question for the public educational system, why aren't the arts as important as core subjects?
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