Albuquerque Halsey - 2013-07-10
fast-drawing whiteboard video,
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THA SUGAH RAIN - 2013-07-10 What's the beef with whiteboard format laid over a talky video? If you're sharing a video of some guy talking it is better than nothing.
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Crab Mentality - 2013-07-10
I don't care for the whiteboard format, but I love the content.
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baleen - 2013-07-10
I think I might have submitted a Ken Robinson TED talk here a long ways back.
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THA SUGAH RAIN - 2013-07-10
This is okay cocktail party conversation fodder. The divergent thinking bit was something I'll keep in my pocket.
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Binro the Heretic - 2013-07-10
RSA Animate videos are like hookers dressed and roleplaying as Catwoman. The hooker is great, but the act & costume make it even more fun.
Many, many, years from now, we'll all be very sorry we didn't listen to Ken Robinson.
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aikimoe - 2013-07-10
I posted this because I think everything starts with this.
The arguments over charter schools, tests, unions, etc., are meaningless, until we address the fundamental fact that lots and lots of kids are being forced to experience education based on a 19th century model. This model works for some kids. But until the rest of the kids - the ones for whom this model doesn't work - are given the freedom to choose how and what they want to learn, the educational experiences of millions of kids will continue to be unpleasant and ineffective.
I highly recommend reading the short essay linked to below and most of anything else that Alfie Kohn writes on the subject.
"The field of education bubbles over with controversies. It’s not unusual for intelligent people of good will to disagree passionately about what should happen in schools. But there are certain precepts that aren’t debatable, that just about anyone would have to acknowledge are true.
"While many such statements are banal, some are worth noticing because in our school practices and policies we tend to ignore the implications that follow from them.
"It’s both intellectually interesting and practically important to explore such contradictions: If we all agree that a given principle is true, then why in the world do our schools still function as if it weren’t?
"Here are 10 examples."
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/duh.htm
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WHO WANTS DESSERT - 2013-07-11
Paradigm: the most punchable of buzzwords
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Innocent Bystander - 2013-07-11
While I pretty much agree, I'd like to hear something a little more practical i.e. what should actually be done to change them paradigms.
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Innocent Bystander - 2013-07-11 Yeah, exactly. It's really easy to say "man schools nowadays are just factories today, they kill creativity and treat students like robots". I think that observation has been made 30 or so years ago, now it's time to start thinking of some practical solutions to change the situations.
I'm also slightly skeptic about his connection between ADHD and boring school as well as that thing about divergent thinking and education. You could come up with a plethora of other explanations for what caused those things.
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aikimoe - 2013-07-11 A practical solution is to reject the current model and allow students, parents, and teachers to create a new model.
Now, that might be as "practical" a solution to failing education as "make more drugs legal" is a "practical" solution to the failed war on drugs. Of course, politicians and bureaucrats will reject the solution out of hand.
But if you want an example of one potential solution, watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTmH1wS2NJY
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