Changing Education Paradigms

Sir Ken Robinson is brilliantly accurate when it comes to summarizing and finding the pitfalls in our current educational model. As a visual learner, I loved the use of animation in this video to depict his talk on education paradigms. Can you imagine the paradigm change that would take place if kid's could learn that way at school?

Race to Nowhere

There is a new film coming out called, Race To Nowhere. I really hope that it will come to my area! It is about how our current educational system is pushing our kids to a Race to Nowhere. We are creating stressed out, achievement driven kids, but are they happy? Are they healthy? Do they even know who they are? Some things to think about when you are pushing your kids to sign up for one more activity.

Be sure to watch this film when it comes out:

Reforming Education

Since I have been introduced to TED I have watched quite a few inspirational videos! I like that they make you think about topics you may not have thought much about before. Isn't the Internet great? I especially love videos about reforming education and how people learn. Here are three videos that will make you question our current educational model.

In this first video Sir Ken Robinson talks about how we are not all meant to do the same thing, but we are all being taught the same way. He makes a point that we are treading on our children's dreams and doing them a diservice by not recognizing their individual talents and dreams. He suggests we reform our current educational model.



Here is another video by Sir Ken Robinson about how schools take creativity away from children. He is a really great speaker!!



In the same vein as these other videos here is one by Gever Tulley at TEDxAtlanta. He says, "You can make people study, but you can't make them learn!" This video is about promoting self-directed learning.