One of the great things about a connected world is our access to all kinds of media. At a recent TED Conference (TED stands for Technology , Entertainment, Design), Sir Ken Robinson presentated on the value of creativity in education. Sir Ken says a lot of very provocative things for educators in a changing world:
- Creativity is now as important in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.
- [Young] kids will take a chance. If they don't know they'll have a go. They're not afraid to be wrong.
- If you're not prepared to be wrong then you will never come up with anything original..
- We stigmatize mistakes. We're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make.
- No one has a clue what the world will look like in five years and yet we're educating [kids] for it.
- As children grow up we start to educate them from the waist up. And then we focus on their heads; and slightly to one side.
- And one of his strongest statements: Our education system has mined our minds in the way that we have strip mined the earth for a particular commodity, and for the future, it won't service.
If you are interested in watching the entire video, you can go to the main TED site. The talk is about 20 minutes, but well worth the time! Plus, he has a very entertaining presentation style.
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