Response to Ken Robinson

Blog posts that I've read:
http://meganlivingston.wordpress.com/
http://ci335edtech.blogspot.com/

I agree whole heartedly with both Megan and Melissa. I think that this clip had great insight into some of the problems with the focus of teaching and learning in the schools today. There are so many kids going through the public school system and coming out with very specific knowledge to only a few given subject fields that the school deems more appropriate or useful for the real world, while many subjects and creative fields are greatly lacking or non-existant in the curriculum. I believe that creativity and arts only help benefit students to expand their minds and their thinking process. They learn to use their brain in a whole new way. The classroom has become so focused on simply throwing information at the students that educators believe will be useful later in life, but so many students are losing their capacity to explore other areas and fields that could potentially be just as or even more helpful in the long run. Not every student who graduates will grow up to do something related to math or science or one of the other typical high school subjects and they should be able to find these other strengths and passions within the school just as they do with the other subjects. I think that both of these girls did a great job of explaining the importance of creativity and stressing how difficult it is to predict the skills that these students will need for the future, which is exactly the challenge that Ken presents in his speech.