Sir Ken Robinson – Changing Paradigms Notes
- Economics – How do we educate our children to be able to take part in the 21st Century?
- Culture – How do we educate our children so they have a sense of cultural identity?
- Hard Work = Do Well = College = Job VS Now-> a Degree ≠ Guarantee a job
- We have to raise educations standards
- Our education system was designed for a different era
- Assumptions on social structure and capacity
- Academic Ability -> Academic VS Non Academic
- ADHD isn’t an epidemic … drugs = focus = calm
- Our children are living in the most intensely stimulating period in history
- Computers/Phones/TV but they get penalised for getting distracted
- The arts are the victims of this mentality
- Aesthetic Experience = Operating at a peak
- Anaesthetic Experience = Shut your senses off
- “We shouldn’t be putting them asleep, we should be waking them up!”
- Schools still run on factory lines
- Ringing Bells/ Separate Facilities/ Corridor Movement
- Why split children by age? Why not group size/ ability?
- Divergent Thinking = an essential capacity for creativity
- The ability to see lots of possible answers
- Think laterally – not linear
- Creativity = the process of having original ideas
- 98% of nursery children were ‘genius’ at divergent thinking
- But this lowered as children grew older
- Inside = “Don’t Look” “Don’t Copy” = That’s copying VS Outside = collaboration
- We have to think differently about human capacity
- Academic/non academic = a myth
- Most great learning happens in groups
- Collaboration = growth
