Ok, a new type of routine tech maintenance… cleaning out my thumb drive. My trusty Memorex drive is 1Gb and so a lot of “stuff” has accumulated over the last 2 years I’ve had it. As I was cleaning it out, I found a video file I don’t remember saving on it. Then I recalled that during the last NCCE conference in Spokane, Chris Hayden grabbed it out of my hand and said, “You’ve got to watch this video!”. Well… with all the things going on with the conference I have to admit… I completely forgot about it. After watching it, I am now saying to you, “You’ve got to watch this video!” Sir Ken Robinson gave a talk titled, Do Schools Kill Creativity? at the 2006 TED Conference.

 

[BTW… TED is a annual conference bringing together great thinkers in technology, entertainment, and design (and much more) to share their ideas. Videos of the presentations are posted on the TED site.]

 

His engaging and entertaining presentation focuses on the importance of creativity and gives us examples of how the current education system is structured to squash creativity. Given our fast changing world and uncertain future:

• Creativity in education is now as important as literacy.

• We are born as creative beings… We don’t grow into creativity; we are educated out of it.

 

Lot’s more thinking going on in my head after watching this.

Please watch and share your thoughts.