Standing Ovation: Ken Robinson

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Ken Robinson

By saying that dance is as important as neuroscience, he was saying that creativity is as much a part of how we function as the other skills we acquire in our education. But he believes that it is given little to no merit. We are only working half of our brain in the traditional curriculum as he states it. He is making such provocative claims to get our attention and get our brains moving on the subject and also because of how strongly he feels. I do agree with him, I think what we can gain from being able to think and work creatively will be just as useful as any other type of education. I think is a misconception, that the idea of being creative means learning to paint and color well and things like that, but we are ultimately teaching kids how to approach situations or potentially conflict in a creative way. This would be extremely useful in everyday life.

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lalaFebruary 9, 2011 at 4:57 PM
How do you think we can make schools add more creativity and make it so we're not just learning about the core requirements and things some kids dont really care about?
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Welcome to our Eng 100 Blog “Standing Ovation”! The title of this blog refers to the audience of active readers we are creating by sharing our academic writing for Eng 100 with a larger group of students, instructors, academics, and just about anybody who chooses to follow our blog! When you write and post your reader responses here (and, later, as you write your essays for the course), I encourage you to use this audience to conceptualize who you are writing for and, most important, how to communicate your ideas so that this group of academic readers and writers can easily follow your line of thinking. Think about it this way: What do you need to explain and articulate in order for the other bloggers to understand your response to the essays we’ve read in class? What does your audience need to know about those essays and the authors who wrote them? And how can you show your readers, in writing, which ideas you add to these “conversations” that take place in the texts we study?
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