Tuesday 10 May 2011

Great videos to watch for teachers and students

These are two of the great Ted talks on www.ted.com.
The first is Sir Ken Robinson, not only an excellent speaker but his "Schools kill creativity" talk is awesome. After I watched this video I saw a short bit of a Hannah Montana episode by chance where she was studying for an anatomy exam, singing and dancing. When doing the exam, she kind of needed to sing and dance to remember the names and stuff and she failed because of that. I couldn't help but thinking of Sir Robinson's video.
No room for creativity. Creativity is often punished or frowned upon, which means descreasing the inventiveness of younger children as they grow older.



The second video is from Patricia Ryan, who states that unless you speak English your potentially very good ideas will not reach out to as many people as they'd deserve reaching out.

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