Lesson Summary:
This lesson reflects off of the work of Master Educator Sir. Kenneth Robinson. We
explore the shift in how teaching has stifled learning over the last 100 years by moving
from an organic approach to mining the mine for the oar of knowledge at the expense of
creativity.
Outline:
I. Introduction
II. Creativity and Kids
III. Educational Systems
Objectives
1. Instill the wonder of learning in students with a respect for the future of it.
2. Rekindle the beauty of childlike passion and learning through reflecting off of how
kids learn.
3. Explore the paradigm of learning over the past 100 years and how it has been
counterproductive to natural creative learning and discovery.
4. Help students to recapture the value of organic learning that is able to swim or walk
outside of the conventional delivery systems of our day.
I. Introduction
1. Talk about Education and people want to run away from you because we spend
our whole life in the system of it.
2. Ask people to talk about their education and they are passionate about it.
3. We have a huge vested interest in Education because it is education that will take
us into the future that we cannot fully grasp yes.
4. Children starting school this year will be retiring in 2065
5. Despite all the expertise no one can tell us what the future will look like in 5 years
and yet were suppose to me educating them for the rest of their lives
Creativity is as important in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same
seriousness. But we squander it.