Thursday, March 29, 2012

Do schools kill creativity?

Hello my dearest students!


As some of you know I have a very profund interest for education. Not just because I love to teach but because I love teaching. And also because I know that it is a very important issue for everybody.


At mornings, I work as researcher on this field studying its connection with digital culture. And because of that I have the privilege to work with great minds from different disciplines.


Today, I want to show you a talk by Sir Ken Robinson, one of the most important academics talking about how we should re-think education.


TED conferences have the slogan: "Ideas Worth Spreading" "Ideas that Change the World" and one of the most important quotes of this talk is : 


"If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original"


What do you think of this video? Do you agree with Sir Robinson? Why?



HINT:

If you don't understand Sir Robinson's English please : Click on the following link and choose the English Subtitles!

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

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32 comments:

Anonymous said...

at this time the importance of arts learning is fundamental to human development because it helps bring awareness and an ethic in its cultural aspect.
incorporated into the academic curriculum of fine arts would do that man knew his inner self with an open mind.

Creativity goes hand in hand with arts, let us see beyond what society allows.
let creativity humans have the capacity to create new things and so evolve as a society.

Andrea Duque F.
214 AN

Anonymous said...

I think it is true what Sir Robinson's says because right now the most important thing is education because it make us grow more as people and know what we want in the future, be more creative and be better.
We can also see that cultural education get very far being very talented people and achieve what we set.LAURA MONTEJO ENGLISH III 214AN

Sergio Moreno said...

Is very important to use imagination and creativity for develop the education.Actually, schools use systems and methods, but they dont ask which are important aspects for the personal formation of students.

We should find our skills and abilities hidden, everybody have differents knowledges, so we are specials.We must prepare physically and mentally because the future is unknown.We must live ours lifes.

I am agree with the Sir Robinson. Good Conference

SERGIO MORENO
ENGLISH VI
GROUP 627BN

Anonymous said...

The video is very interesting, I think one of the most important things in our lives is somehow always education art and creativity are closely linked, somehow we are all creative


Fausto diaz mendoza
English VI

Eric Donovan - Pigment-D Moda said...

At this times, the creativity its most important like the Education as mentioned, "If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original", since small've been afraid to make mistakes that's a big problem when you affronts the life. The intelligence is dynamic always depend how we interact in life y how make a new lifestyle or new future.
For me this is important, then when I have moments to create someone I need move this idea and carry out.
The creativity and education are maintained in the hand, and always have oportunities to make ideas since childs.

Eric Donovan Hernández
4355AN‏
English IV

Laura Martínez said...

I find interesting is the vision that Mr. Ken Robinson, as expressed and as concerned with improving education, as he mentions that education has been reformed, but not transformed. No calls requiring less at school, but to school: it should focus on identifying and enhancing the unique talents of each.

I like when he says that all people have potential, because being creative is not a gift that some have chosen, is what makes us human. If you are a person, you are creative. And you learn to be more creative as you learn to read. It is an innate power that we all develop.


We also find in his speech from a philosophical perspective, references such as: Wittgenstein "when he says that if you are not willing to be wrong never attain something original", Nietzsche "when referring to the relationship between the child, creativity and the artist", Schopenhauer "when he criticizes the image of "university professor", Marx "when critical one-sided view of human capacities"

Surely my colleagues find other relationships, not just philosophical. : )

Laura Melissa Martinez Sierra
English VI 627BN

andykaya said...

the creativity is very important to process creative for students, because the thinking development new process for productive and innovative in all fields of study and the rest of life.

This is done to find new skills in different knowledge.

good conference

English IV 355 AN

andres cubillos mora

Anonymous said...

Is very important to develop imagination, creativity, to make way for the hidden abilities and we thought maybe we did not have, I believe that education should focus on today grow and develop habildades, capacities of each person.

Luz A Guzman
624 AN

johan medina said...

The Wealth of the human capacity is in his thoughts, it is necessary to motivate and develop them every day , since they have come lose in the new forms of education that today are practiced.
We must start living through this change that we need the creativity, innovation and the thoughts are a step to a new objective.
I´m agree with the lecturer

johan medina 624AN english III

FAVER RODRIGUEZ (dinamitaholy) said...

our mind has always been tied to money, if you do not make money, to society what you do not have value.

many young people today in Colombia, choose to study disciplines that give them money so they could have a better future, but these boys are conditioned by their parents, they tell their children, "study something worthwhile, law, engineering , economy, etc. but never the urge to study art or design, because for most parents today, the most important thing is that their children are recognized as money making machines.

FAVER RODRIGUEZ T/N

Alejandra Díaz 624 AN English III said...

This conference is very interesting. Every person is different and therefore every person has distinct skills. Many persons have interested for the result and not for the process. The persons have been interested in obtain a title without matter if his knowledge, his skills were exploited. I agree to defend our skills, our creativity, since it is a way of be happy in what in a future we will work.

Alejandra Díaz 624 AN English III

Anonymous said...

214 an
paola garcia contreras

in this video is very important as education THROUGH highlight creativity where everything you learn is from the house and part of the school is very important for the formation of large professional people

if we make mistakes will learn from them, following every time you fall get up and move on

mario buitrago said...

What a great video
For my the proposal ted's it is interesting,
especially when he mentions the importance of creativity in education.
The Academy is always looking to promote primary subjects such as mathematics and language, paying little attention to these subjects that we consider of little value how the art, music, dances.
the Education in Colombia is not the best and if we think that for this reason we can not progress we are wrong. for us to develop the creativity Only we need is discipline.

we can think of innumerable ideas but seldom begin to develop.
and if we begin to develop these ideas We finish few ones.
thanks
mario enrique buitrago
ingles VI

Anonymous said...

Really I had to whatch the video with subtitles because I understood more little. I found very interesting the creative topic and the example of the girl in the art class.
I agree with Mr. Robinson because everything changes and earlier education was different but now must be linked it with the present and we all know that today's children are special, more restless, more intelligent, more sagacious.
Diego Cetina English VI 627BN

Anonymous said...

the vidio is very interesting, i think that the creativity is so important for personal development. The education don't pay attention to the student but to the program academic because the education have programs for each course and the teacher don't take into account the people who take the class are particulars and uniques. the education create worker, the education don't do whole persons.

Arturo Franco
Ingles VI

Anonymous said...

I agree with my colleagues and Mr. Robinson when he speaks that creativity is something that is in us, and taking place right through the time with more education, training, culture and art
trained with knowledge, we have many referenctes for the development of successful creativity.
education is important to our daily lives.
I think that creativity develops in some people in a way faster than others, but this does not mean that everyone can be creative.
should enable us and read more for acquiring knowledge.
Karen Tamayo english 3 624AN

Anonymous said...

HELLO¡
I think Mr. Robinson is right because today is more important languages ​​of mathematics and forget that we have skills and can do things.
each person is unique because necesiata study to do something that your brain knows how to do
also the education system is too empty for its qualified and dedicated students.


JINETH HERNANDEZ 214AN

Anonymous said...

Interesting, real and consistent with our present .....
he mentioned in the conference that creativity is as important as education, but in the current education system is not applied.
The system maintains the same pyramid of important issues for decades, leaving the subjects of art aside.
in The example of Guillian Linne where parents focusing on the ability of her daughter in dance and this was successful in his life, creating your business and won many dollars.
In conclusion we are children, in to family and work, not have afraid to make mistakes and let us create ideas new every day.

Samuel Acero
English VI 627BN

Christian Julián English III 214AN said...

I totally agree with Mr. Sir Ken Robinson, and provide good ideas for change in the world, on the other hand, at the thought of being wrong often in a social sphere, is not well seen from a more general perspective within individuals as morally destrute criticism because human beings are not made for this.

Anonymous said...

I think that Mr. robinsosn is right when he says that faculty walk the halls of the university but their minds are elsewhere and certainly their bodies just take their heads. We must study and learn every day more but when we practice our skills and show our work, our work will be different for our creativity and heart to do things, we must be passionate and that our work will make special.
Guiovanna Sánchez English VI-627BN

Anonymous said...

I totally agree with the conference, because we have all the creativity from children but in schools and in our families do not care about that motivate us, we must first begin to exploit our talents so we are more creative people first of all note that we will learn from mistakes. Natalia Mora English III 624 AN

Anonymous said...

In my manner to see education in Colombia,is something conservative and only we dedicate us to follow some rules that the office of education they impart.
The model that explains Sr Robinson is interesting as for apply in public education, but not at 100%. with all matters so that the people improve in several potential.I think that creativity can be until en the physical or chemical.

MELCO A. SEGURA ENGLISH III 624 AN

Anonymous said...

Hello, I think that he´s rigth, the people has forgotten the meaning to be human and all the things that has happened through the years has become us in a "robotic thing" that only thinks in money and status. In fact we have to change these conception from the family, through the sachool and university until ours jobs. The world is only one and we are de cancer that hurts and will kill it, if we don´t try to change our way to see the things, we will doomed. All the education system lead us to survive in a society but.... is it leads to survive in our planet?

Héctor Vanegas 624 AN Eng. III

Pao Moreno said...

I think that the education system must to have a huge revolution, as Sir Robinson said the education as we know today it hasn't change since a lot years and is necessary that the form of education is adapted to new requirements of the world.

Also is important that the schools promote the creative in the children, because is in the school when the child learn and acquire a lots of tools and abilities for his future. Teachers should try to make that children find their talents and prepare them for in the future they can make what really they love.

Finally, the education nowadays shouldn't be directed to make that people acquire abilities for get a job, if we really want that our children in the future will be a people with a great skills and ideas, is necessary change the education system and that the creative will be considered how a one of the most important development tool.

Paola Andrea Moreno Parada
English VI / 627 BN

Anonymous said...

Very interesting and important topic of the conference.

Creativity makes authentic people the discipline and education,

If you are looking for success in life of individuals and society, it should exploit the potential that leads inside.

"ART IS A WHOLE."

MARCELA HERRERA MAYORGA
INGLES VI
627BN

Anonymous said...

this video is very interesting, at this time the importance of arts learning is fundamental to human development, i think one of the of the most important things in our lives is the education, creativity, and capacity the make new things

the creative is the capacity main the society

LINDA MAHECHA 214AN

PAOLA MOLINA B said...

is a very interesting video that talks hacerca of education as it should be, Sir Mr. Robinson said that education has not changed much.
one process to form a person's future from childhood, that schools must be children with a specific life plan or knowing where they will track the future of the seed that is formed.

PAOLA MOLINA B
214AN

May Sayago said...

I really enjoyed the conference.

I think these people have inspired not only those who are responsible for teaching, if not every person who in his heart has the passion to show something new, the simple life teaches something great for a lifetime.

Mayra Sayago
624 AN
INGLES 3

alejandro2138 said...

I as a student of advertising, creativity is the result of a solid knowledge. can not create something from nothing only with sufficient knowledge can be creative and active.
alejandro ardila
english III
624AN

camila rodriguez said...

The conference of Mr. ken Robinson is very good because it talks about the importance of developing new ideas through the skills and capabilities that human beings have to develop new projects where education is enjoyable and not boring to see.
Laura Camila Rodriguez
214AN

williams.fonseca said...

Conference discusses very interesting topics for the transformation of the current education and the mechanisms and methodologies that teachers should adopt to generate higher affinity and interest of students, I see with great motivation that if we get all teachers take advantage of this call, our future would have a better horizon

Anonymous said...

In my opinion this video reflects the reality of the world because we think we are more than others. But we do not know the treasures that keep people inside and therefore mistreat them with indifference. I remember my father's words "every person is gold never treats her too differently." On the subject of tolerance, practice it rarely, only in situations that we should good For example only transmilenio travel experience, but the invitation is to live with it and be tolerance.
For me, tolerance is synonymous with sharing love and if, I consider myself a tolerant person.

I think the festival should be given more importance for everyone to participate more actively.
But the little I saw was wonderful.

Samuel Acero M
English VI
627BN