Sir Ken Robinson: Changing Educational Paradigms
He has an outstanding view point on education and what they tried to do with it and that it was great when they started out. However, we can not model our future and present schools on what was done in the past. This is a great message because it makes sense. They didn't have the technology that we do now, so how can we expect our children to not get distracted. His concerns about children and ADHD are also very compelling and I agree with his view point on this. It does make our children seem like "ZOMBIES". My daughter was on it for about a month, and I didn't like how tired she stayed all the time. I don't think that is healthy for a child and the fact that she could not remember anything became a problem. So we took her off of it and gave her different consequences for her actions and it helped her.
I also like his view on standardized testing and the manufacturing line students. He has an amazing point that I never really thought of that way. He is so right that some students are better with small groups or on their own rather than in a huge classroom. Why do we think that this is the correct way of teaching and learning???
Is it because this is the way that is has always been done? I think it's time to change, lets move with the time and stop lingering in the past!
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