Interesting: Another education clip: Creativity

[sethisalive]

"If you're not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original.

By the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity.
[...] And we run our companies like this by the way."

"And we're now running education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make."


"If you were to visit education as an alien and ask

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yay, except for ATT.

[kindatesst]

Bravo. I've been waiting to watch it all week. :)

I just wish someone would teach us HOW to teach creativity...although the task force I'm on seems to be tackling it in the music rooms.

Love it.

Re: yay, except for ATT.

[sethisalive]

HOW to teach creativity? Didn't you know that teachers will figure out ways to teach creativity if you just complain about the educational system enough without proposing clear imperatives as to how to actually remedy the things that are being complained about? :-D

Art and music (and Odyssey of the Mind or whatever they call it now, "DI" I think, what a stupid name) are great starters...but even science classrooms could be a lot more like choir classrooms.

Re: yay, except for ATT.

[kindatesst]

But, I'd disagree. I think that music classes CAN be good...but we have to be careful to allow students to make some of the musical decisions! I think my classes have been the recipients of my creativity - a powerful factor, to be sure, because modeling is huge...but I don't give them enough leeway to exercise it. Same with art...I spent an entire art quarter drawing a wood duck. And I hate wood ducks.

PS: Cya Saturday

[sethisalive]

PS: Cya Saturday. 2pm-ish? You call me? Or just show up at my place? Or I meet you somewhere?

[kindatesst]

AND I used the quote about it being OK to be "wrong" in class today...and the kids responded. It's a step toward safe classroom environment - which is a key factor in creativity.

[sethisalive]

Yay! I affected the world a little bit :) Good for you! See you on Saturday. I didn't even know what day it was yesterday, been sick, but things are looking up!

[kindatesst]

Hope you feel better! I'll leave here around 1:45 on Sunday - I'll be there around 2:30. I'll call you when I'm close.