COP3 : Sir Ken Robinson

TED Talk : Sir Ken Robinson

RSA talk : Sir Ken  Robinson




Notes :

Information is fed into children from every platform and as a result they get distracted and then they get penalised for it and get medicated. This is referring to kids of today, there is a lot of information for children to take in from the surrounding world so are bound to get distracted, people see this destruction and lack of concentration as an illness and so medicate the children.

ADHD has risen as has standardised testing in schools. Kids are given drugs to pay attention and also to calm down, that they are not stimulated at school compared to all of the other visual stimulation going on in the world.

– The arts of victims of this mentality as they address the idea of aesthetic experience which is where all senses of operating at their peak, present in that moment, excited fully alive. Anaesthetic is a shutdown of the senses, dead in yourself to what is happening and this is what is happening to drugged up kids. Getting kids through education by anethatising them.

Education should do the opposite, but put them asleep but wake them up to their abilities. Education is modelled on the interest of industrial revolution and in the image of it. Schools are operated on factory lines they have bells categories facilities batches date of manufacture (page) if the production line mentality. Everything is standardised tests, teaching, curriculum, go opposite to standardised education that is the changing of paradigm. All kids are not the same so why treat them that way.

Recent test into divergent thinking. divergent thinking isn't the same thing as creativity – creativity is – the process of having original ideas that have value. divergent thinking is an essential capacity for creativity, the ability to see lots of answers, lots of ways of interpreting a question, to think laterally, to think not just a linear or convegent ways, to see multiple answers not just one. Kids were tested using the divergent thinking test, and the results were that when the kids were tested at a younger age who are classed as genius at divergent thinking, the older the kids got the more disability disappeared.

In most cases of intelligence you get better as you get older. Not with creativity, we all have this ability that it deteriorated state education in standardising.

Research came from the book – breakpoint and beyond – look at it.

Further Notes:

I found this talk really interesting and agree with the points Sir Ken Robinson makes. I understand that high school has to be academic as that is where the majority of important academic learning is done, but primary schools seem to have more of a focus on academic learning rather then having an enjoyable creative learning environment. If kids in primary schools are fed heavily curriculum based academic learning they will miss out on chances of developing the power of thinking differently and connecting ideas to make new ideas, which is a very beneficial skill to have in society, although 'creative' thinking is often looked down upon it is a very powerful and often groundbreaking skill to have especially where science or inventions are concerned. This is why I think primary schools should have less of a focus on getting the correct answer to pass the tests that the government sets as you can teach anyone to pass a test it's a memory game and not that beneficial especially at such a young age as primary school as you will get re taught everything in high school.