Blog Post #10

The driving question for this blog post was, "What can we learn from Sir Ken Robinson?"

In Ken Robinson's video Bring on the Learning Revolution, he said that he knows people who drone through life miserably and he knows people who absolutely love what they do and wouldn't change a thing. He also felt that education sometimes keeps people from their natural talents. The main point in his speech was that education reform is not enough. He said that reform is not enough because all it is doing is trying to improve a broken model. He thinks that instead of reform, we need transformation or revolution.

Mr.Robinson's ideas were to challenge what we know and take for granted and innovate fundamentally. He thinks that people's biggest problem is that they get in a habit of thinking that once something is done one way, it simply can not be done any other way. He wants people to reconstitute their sense of abilities and sense of intelligence. He says that life and education should be about passion and what, "excites our spirit and our energy." His thoughts on revolution in education would be to model it on principles of agriculture and realize that human flourishing is not a mechanics process, that it is an organic one. His best advice was that we need to be like farmers and customize to our own circumstances.

What I learned from Mr.Robinson's video was that education really does need an entire transformation. I had not thought about education the way that he talked about until viewing this video, but I really do agree with him. This can especially relate to technology in the classroom. Teachers once only had chalkboards, textbooks, paper, pens, and pencils; but now, they have access to so much more through the internet and things like P.L.N.s. If teachers do not change their ways and try to incorporate things like this into their classrooms, their students really will be missing out. Teachers should take changes like this and learn to develop them for their students development and their own. Mr.Robinson's idea about being like farmers really stood out to me because if we as educators are like farmers, watching our students grow and adapting to the changes that they need, we will be able to in a way grow successful crops with our students.