sir ken robinson – creativity
So much to learn from Sir Ken.. , google him, read his books, his rsanimate seems to resonate with many.
This interview (via mindshift) is quite recent, and quite to the point.
1. economic imperative
Report by IBM – 3000 ceo’s around the world.. what came up on top was creativity.
2. cultural imperative
The world is getting more connected, so finding more ways to live together.
3. personal imperative
In the end it’s about people finding what matters to them.
Creativity is not an option, it’s a necessity.
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his site:
his profile on TED:
His wikipedia page:
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TED (how to encourage education’s death valley – 2013)
in some parts = 60% drop out, in native american communities = 80%
if we halved those numbers – mopping up the damage – net gain of nearly 1 trillion dollars
3 principles on which human life flourishes – and they are contradicted in the culture of education that teachers have to labor and students have to endure:
1. diverse
2. curiosity
3, creativity
rsanimate (changing ed paradigms): TED (schools kill creativity – 2007): TED (learning revolution – 2012): _____________ some of what we’ve written of him/his work:tuesday, may 25, 2010
the element
p. 7 Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.
p. 12 on the ed system:
1) preoccupation w/certain sorts of academic ability
2) hierarchy of subjects
3) growing reliance on particular types of assessment
p. 14 – the value of dance – the Gillian Lynne story
p. 22 – the Element has 2 main features: aptitude (i get it) and passion (i love it)
and 2 main conditions: attitude (i want it) and opportunity (where is it)
p. 31 – there are the 5 senses, the 6th sense – intuition, and a basic sense -balance
p. 35 – too many people take for granted our ideas about intelligence, ie: athletes, dancers, musicians, etc…. draw from the deep reserves of feeling and intuition and of physical reflex and coordination that use the whole brain and not only the parts at the front that we associate with rational thinking.
p. 38 – Alfred Binet, one of the creators of the IQ test, intended the test to serve precisely the opposite function. ..to identify students w/special needs so they could get appropriate forms of schooling. Binet says: the scale he created does not permit the measure of intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured.
p. 41 – Carl Brigham, inventor of the SAT… disowned it 5 yrs later, .. the SAF is in many ways the indicator for what is wrong with standardized tests: it only measures a certain kind of intelligence…..via John Katzman, founder of the Princeton Review, “what makes the SAT bad is that it has nothing to do with what kids learn in high school. as a result, it creates a sort of shadow curriculum that furthers the goals of neither educators nor students…”
p. 42 – wrong question.. how intelligent are you…. right question… how are you intelligent.
yeah.. just read the book… 13th root guy… needs a brain rest.. etc.
p. 69 – brilliance of Feynman from playing… the pleasure of finding thing out.
p. 74 – find the medium that excites your imagination
p. 84 – if you find a place where everybody else likes the same thing that you do, it really becomes fun.. (pln baby) … you’re almost unconscious to what’s going on around you…
p. 92 – Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – pronounced “chicks-sent-me-HIGH-ee” – the flow guy.. where work and play become one… {i really just wanted to write his name}
p. 114 – tribal dynamics: 1) validation 2) inspiration 3) synergy
p. 117 – up to a point, you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done… physicist Freeman Dyson.
p. 118 – find your people
p. 120 – Dylan spends the day listening to Guthrie… and he says… a voice in my head said – so this is the game.
p. 121 – when tribes gather in the same place, the opportunities for mutual inspiration can become intense.
p. 126 – on committees vs teams… creative teams have a distinctive personality and come together to do something specific. they are together only for as long as they want to be or have to be to get the job done.
p. 137 – Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist, was put in an asylum by his parents 3 times because they wanted him to become a lawyer not a writer. they believed they were protecting him.
p. 140 – Arianna Huffington – the biggest obstacles to achievement can be self-doubt and the disapproval of other people.
p.164 The Element by @SirKenRobinson – …catching polio opened many more doors for me than the one it so firmly closed at the time…
p.159 The Element by @SirKenRobinson -.. it’s not what happens to us that determines our lives – it’s what we make of what happens..
p. 178 The Element: ..mentroing takes an elevated role for people when it involves directing or inspiring their search for the Element.
p. 179 ff:
4 roles of mentors
1) recognition (specifics w/in discipline)
2) encouragement (things thought impossible before meeting)
3) facilitating (can even be other kids)
4) stretching (push us past asymptotes – self-reliance)
p. 181 – zig when everyone else is zagging..the fastest path to success is often to go against the flow..
p. 183 – it’s important for students to rub up against people who have actually done or are doing the thing that the students are learning. they don’t really need to tell you much, just show you what they do.
p. 184 – it might be overstating things to suggest that the only way to reach the Element is with the help of a mentor, but it is only a mild overstatement.
p. 184.. equally as important as having a mentor is to mentor others… it is even possible that you’ll find that your own real Element is as a mentor to other people.
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talk at rsanimate july 1 2013
how to change ed from the ground up
11:25 – rather than waiting for policy/policy makers to change, we change, then policy makers will have to 13 – basics of ed are not topics, but purposes:
1. economic (but no longer an industrial economy)
companies 2 priorities – adaptability and creativity
2. cultural – zoom out
3. social – rediscover democracy
4. personal – diversity (not conformity)
33 – future – living organisms – so no longer about mechanisms… but systems that are alive..
complex systems – evolving and adapting – affected by the climate
schools are ecosystems – no single point of influence
36 – success – an oasis of achievement – what does that mean?
38 – values change from the ground up
40:50 – revolution is already happening
texas – giving all kids ipads, moocs, revolutions? system adapting?
what’s not adapting – high level of government policy
if you can help to change the climate of expectation in education….
46 – he says – i’m not saying we should only teach people what they want to learn…
50:45 – can’t make people learn – but you can facilitate it..
53:30 data as resource for teachers ? – what if data is better resource for learner
58 – oh my – school of one as personalization..
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part of interview series by Graham Brown-Martin:
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interview with Jonathan Fields – april 2015:
24 min – on closing the door to serendipity..it’s not like cancer – we know what to do .. we just need to do it.. ie: models that work (that he has in his book)57 min – needed 1) teachers 2) wide curriculum (rather than narrow) 3) appropriate assessments
whoa.
58 min – testing business is bigger than nfl and hollywood – massive profit1:01 – parallel industries – big pharma.. a lot of good have come of it.. vast amount of profiteering as well1:04 – we can fix this by getting proper training for teachers and getting control back to schools.. finland is doing this and they are out performing everyone..
whoa. out performing ness. ugh.
1:05 – on revolution – subtitle – grassroots revolution – we can’t fix this simply by repairing things the way we do them now.. there’s something fundamentally wrong with the way we do things nowie: high tech high, montessori schools, …1:07 – don’t wait for somebody to say it’s ok – start doing it differently..
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world’s largest less – written by Ken – on un 17 global goals for 2030
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published feb 2017 (not sure when happened)
Expanding our definition of smart | Sir Ken Robinson + Amanda Palmer
6 min – simple way to solve problems is to stop causing them.. don’t do that.. do something else.. – kena nother way
18 min – we cannot measure what’s important.. just what’s easiest to find.. – amanda
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message to idec 2017
to be wage earners
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focused on passions.. anxieties of learners..
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many that go on in schools.. things that are a matter of habit
like perpetuating the making of money
schools.. don’t resonate with teh natural appetite
human nature ness
where do we stop with these.. (ie: steam to steam to steham)
exactly..
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watching mlts thanks to hawaii pbs – can’t believe how much of this is from what i was involved with 10 yrs ago.. ie: krishnamurti free will law – esp the high tech high stuff.. dang.. and according to hawaii.. it’s being applauded so much now.. and can’t believe we aren’t being more drastic (because we have the means to) when ie: the film starts out with daughter in tears.. and we know she’s thinking.. this is bs.. yet we keep her going to school.. to shameful conferences.. guy in middle saying what kids need today in order to compete.. who decided life is about or even should include competition.. then at 45 min castleview kids say.. ‘hs if for acing the test so you can get into college.. and that’s where you get to apply it to life’.. well .. not really.. so let’s call bs on all of it.. do our kids.. do we.. not matter enough.. (again.. because we have the means.. would take no more effort that ie: what went into making this film/book.. sir ken’s talks.. whatever).. 47 min – clip from Eric Mazur that i got 10 yrs ago.. 48 min – when we hire at kahn academy.. (really..? that’s what we’re going for in life)
huge.. google guy (Lazlo Bock @laszlobock – people ops at google) at 50 min – had just said.. kids are curious naturally.. we teach them how not to learn.. but to memorize what others expect.. then interviewer says.. so not what’s good for econ.. and google guy says.. or good for your soul.. that should be the whole flim right there.. we should figure that out.. how can we make life good for 7 bn souls.. everything else is blah blah
let’s try this guys.. quit spinning wheels.. get off the cycle
ie: hlb via 2 convos that io dance.. as the day..[aka: not part\ial.. for (blank)’s sake…].. a nother way
yet.. goes on .. comparing workers.. and jobs.. and fear of losing them.. we’re so sick/intoxicated.. graeber jobless law .. et al
52 min – parents asked to make a bet.. 1/ keep same 2/ reimagine school..
there’s a third option.. rev of everyday life.. if equity is everyone getting a go every day.. redefining public education becomes revolution of everyday life.. aka: global equity
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foreward of Mitch Resnick‘s lifelong kindergarten
vii creativity moves hand in hand w tech – extend bodies and expand minds.. ix creativity is a step beyond imagination: it’s putting your imagination to work creativity is not only incremental: it is collaborative.. a larger theme too. every child is born w immense natural talents.. how they develop has much to do w the environ they are raised and opps they are given..why equity (everyone getting a go everyday) matters
x resnick pithily says, kindergarten is now becoming like the rest of school. in this book, he argues the opposite, that the rest of school (indeed, the rest of life) should become more like kindergarten. i’m sure he’s right..so let’s do/facil that.. ie: 1 yr to be 5.. via 2 convos .. as the day as it could be
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il that.. ie: 1 yr to be 5.. via 2 convos .. as the day
as it could be
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sir ken celebration: http://imagine-if.com/#about
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Thank you for all of your messages of love and support since Sir Ken’s passing.Nevergrey are pleased to be announcing our first major initiative in his legacy: Imagine if… a four day digital festival to celebrate the life and legacy of Sir Ken Robinson and a global campaign by the same name. Visit www.imagine-if.com to learn more. #weimagineif#sirkenrobinsonat link.. can upload a file of your ‘imagine if’ (i did this pdf); or host an event that week; or join in that week ___________ __________
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be you. 