Monday, September 10, 2018
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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Throughout this video, I have pondered have us kids lost our sense of creativity or becoming prepared to be wrong. Is this okay to be taught that being wrong is bad? It's through pre-school through senior year of College. Teachers show us quotes that say being wrong isn't bad but they GRADE US ON WRONG AND RIGHT PROBLEMS. Even though this is from 2006 it relates to today and to tomorrow until this ideal is changed.
-Zach R
While watching the ¨Schools Vs. Creativity?¨ video, I was able to understand how children have a great capacity of learning and they are capable of anything as long as they have the right mindset and pursue that passion. School's are focusing kids on learning academics more than other subjects like dance that can be real careers in the future for them. "They look at their bodies as a form of transportation for their heads." This quote shows how schools are teaching minds to be smart while we need to be taught other activities more at the same time. Mason Grimm
Schools are not killing creativity. Schools have classes like marching band, concert band, jazz band, art, jewelry, etc. Each student gets a chance to express their creativity through those classes. Outside of those classes you shouldn't exactly be that creative unless told to do so. Schools now are fine with chances to express creativity through elective classes.
I think that this is interesting because he says "we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it." This is saying that people are often creative as kids and when they grow up they become less creative. He also says that we lose creativity in schools.
I think Sir Ken Robinson's video presentation was interesting. When he was talking about how kids are frightened to be wrong nowadays and how this is making them not as creative, I had never really thought about it but it makes sense that since kids don't want to be wrong they can't be prepared to make mistakes and that's what creativity is about. I think teachers should make sure that kids aren't afraid to be wrong and that maybe they should change their teaching ways so that kids aren't scared to answer questions. I agree that a lot of adults say not to do art or music because they think we aren't going to go into a profession where art and music is important but that's not always true. Also, it's important to do art and music anyways because it lets us be creative. His definition of creativity is having original thoughts of value and those thoughts could be super helpful in so many ways to create good ideas for all different areas of jobs so creativity is really important. -Sophia Floyd
I agree with Sir Ken Robinson's video because it is true that as you grow and become older or an adult you are more afraid to be wrong so even if someone is really creative they may not show it because they are afraid.Some reasons that I have personal experience with is being in a math class or mostly any class when a teacher asks a question and you raise your hand as a kid you don't care whether you are wrong or not, but as you grow most students tend to be hesitant when raising your hand to answer because you're afraid of defeat, of getting the answer wrong and you don't want to feel that defeat. School’s are more focused on getting kids through the year, making sure they are learning the right material so they can move on to the next grade all the way through high school. This can halt students creativity in the way they learn and the things they do. Including what job they want to pursue in the future.
I think that the video was very accurate in many ways. One way is how he says that we are taught to be right and are now afraid of being wrong. Schools only want the students to be right and have the right answer and by doing this we have the feeling that we have to be right. Also, how schools put other classes before creative classes like art and drama. By doing this art becomes less important and making students not share their creativity. Schools do take away students' creativity and that is not right and it needs to change.
In the video Ken Robinson explains how he believes that we are all born with creative minds but as we grow and are educated in school we are educated out of creativity. He explains how as kids most kids are very creative and have many ideas and are not afraid to be told their idea is bad. Then, as people grow up and go to school we are taught subconsciously that it is bad to be wrong so we then no longer have these creative ideas because we are scared to be wrong. Definition of creativity is having an original idea that has value. People are scared to have that value.
- Jackson A
While watching this video ¨Schools Vs. Creativity?, I thought that when he explained that in this day and age we are prepared to be right not to be wrong and when we are it is a bad thing. I know from experience that we are being taught to be right, and if we are wrong then we get punished. I feel like if they don't fix this situation then they will keep destroying our sense of creativity
School is teaching kids that being wrong is a bad thing by punishing us or giving bad grades, this leaves adults thinking that being wrong is shameful.Everywhere in the world the top subjects for school are math and languages, but all the things that form people such as art and drama are at the bottom of this hierarchy. School teaches us that being smart is more important than being people and figuring out who we are as a person
The goal of a school education is to make professors and what school is teaching is to make smart people teach other smart people the school system will have it where most people will not get the dream job they have wanted or even studied for. Soon having a Ph.D. or a masters want to mean much in the future was back in the day if you had one you were guaranteed a job. So school time and education will only increase and become less valuable.
This is a weird different way to think about education. It is very interesting to think about how school kills creativity and he makes some good points. He says that we educate you out of making mistakes and things are created from making mistakes. It's really cool to think about that because it's totally true. He says education is just for making smart people to teach other smart people like professors. Again another way to think about it, it opens up knew thoughts like what will happen 50 years from now? What will the wolrds creativity be like?
I think that Sir Ken Robinson makes great points about how the world around us is changing and what kind of effects will happen to children because of that. It made me think about how educating kids to only use complete logic rather than creativity can prevent actual growth. He made some interesting points about how schools shouldn't just teach basic knowledge and that schools should start encouraging creative thinking.
I don't know what he means when he says that all school curriculums are designed to produce university professors, because I think our education system encourages us to do whatever we want when we grow up, but emphasizes Math, Science, Social studies, and language arts, because if that doesn't work out, those things are the most important resources to have in most jobs.
Sir Ken Robinson makes a great point in his speech, schools teach kids how to be smart when they don't emphasize a much on art, music and physical subjects. He is stating that schools essentially kill creativity. He said something along the lines of, everybody is born and artist, but only the dedicated people become one. I really think that is a valid point because if everybody practiced over and over again their passion we would all have jobs that we love.
Sir Ken Robinson's points seem very valid in my opinion. I've had many kinds of classes where a mistake is rained down on by your peers and the teacher. I believe that much of what he said fits into a description of our current education system; he claims that all schools discourage mistakes and though I see many posters around the school about not being afraid of making mistakes, about not being afraid of going slow the truth is that schools make kids fearful of just that. When I take a test or turn in a paper I always think about what grade I'm going to get because since 2006 it's been like that. Grades are life, they now lead to college, to a good job now. So schools having us start sooner is beneficial to us and them in the modern world. However, that is where our creativity is lost.
After watching this video, I thought about what schools and society value in students. Sir Ken Robinson made a good point that schools mainly focus on the mind and stress math, science, and languages more than arts and dance. I think society accentuates that being successful and getting jobs in the arts is unstable and or unreachable. Robinson stated that kids gradually get educated out of creativity, rather than in it. One question I have is why all schools don't have a mandatory class centered around the arts? Another question I have is how many jobs in the arts are available? I agree with Robinson on the fact that schools should enhance creativity and not push it out.
This video had a lot of good points. The point that stood out to me the most was that you don't have to succeed at everything to be successful at life. The video revealed a new world in education. The educators are educating kids to be future educators. This can deter a child from possibly finding a cure to cancer because they were taught to be educators.
After watching Sir Ken Robinson's ted talk, I think it really depends on what school go to. A school like Arapahoe gives students tones of opportunities to be creative, with electives,sports, and clubs. Other schools may not have this kind of stuff and students could start to decrease in creativity.
Jayden T
In the Ted Talk by Sir Ken Robinson he talks about school killing creativity which is understandable, but is not true. He defines creativity by having an original ideas that has value, which is a good definition yet school is not killing this. They have options for which classes you can take or if you have an off hour then you have the freedom to be creative. Even in a class like english you are suppose to use your own style or be creative in your writing.
ELLA RAKOWSKI:
I think that It is important to have schools with creativity. It was weird to me that not every school had dance or that not a lot of dance schools are here.
Eva Stratford
I think in the Ted Talk, Sir Ken Robinson made some very good points about how school ruins creativity. he says that creativity is having an original idea that has value. I think creativity is more like using your imagination. But in school you have opportunities and get to make stuff your own. However, it depends on what school you go to, some schools are more strict than others and allow you to do different things.
I believe that it is important to have creativity in schools. It is good for kids to have creativity because it gives kids more hope in schools and let them do what they need to do to succeed.
I think that this video is great. This person explains what school expects students to do. Creativity leaves us as we get older is what he explains and i agree with hat. So i wonder if we were given looser rules as kids would we become creative adults that aren't afraid to be wrong. If there were more creative adults i'm wondering would that make the world different in a way and would jobs and activities be different. Than if that's true than is schools around the world shaping everyone's life and shaping the world. If school embrace creativity would we all think differently and would we know more since there are many different points of view, more than the good side and the bad side. But would there be more wars, or more religions, ore more languages. I think that schools have shaped this world in such a significant way, and only because of the lack of creativity.
I think that schools are both killing but also trying to help express creativity. Take an art project for example. I think a project were the teacher said “Do whatever you want, whatever type of art, no matter how different.” I feel like that would be a good idea but how would the teacher assess it? She set no standards and their is no way to be wrong. It’s also mostly opinionated if you were to judge someone are artistic ability. I feel like it’s trying to help but there’s always a limit to what schools can do.
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