Monday, June 14, 2010

Are schools killing creativity?

I had seen this video when I traveled to New York a couple of years ago for IB Visual Arts training. I was so pleased because I want this to become a conversation in education. Each day of my life I have to try to inspire students to use the right side of their brain as well as the left. It takes me at least twenty minutes of presentation, warm up, and conversation to help them make the switch. They are so afraid of doing something incorrectly that they opt not to do some things. I have many 4.0 gpa students that struggle in my class because there is never one solution to the problem that is correct. I want them to find a solution that no one has thought of before. Here is more on Sir Ken Robinson

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