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Color Key
White: Key Points
Purple: Quotes
Yellow: My thoughts

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I am going to be an art teacher one day, and my goal is to make my classroom the place (maybe the students' only place) to throw out "anesthetics" and be fully present in the moment. Using their senses to create and absorb art, and use their creativity to unleash their truest selves.

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I got the opportunity to look through my mentor teacher's binder with all of his students' IEP's (if they had one). I was shocked by the amount of ADHD diagnoses for students that I would have never thought had it. It makes me wonder if any of them are mis-diagnosed, as the video highlights.

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This video made me both inspired and frustrated. Inspired because he really reframed learning and the core issues of it in a way where I feel I, a prospective teacher, can be an agent of change. Frustrated because he highlights the misplaced value system we have put on education - valuing the economy, standards, and the use of anesthetics.

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"Most great learning happens in groups"

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Children are living in the most "intensely stimulating period in the history of the earth and we penalize them for getting distracted by the boring stuff"

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"We need to go in the opposite direction as standardization"

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"Many brilliant people think they are not"

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Divergent thinking - not the same as creativity

An essential capacity for creativity

The ability to see lots of different answers for a question

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We are living in an epidemic of ADHD

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The system of our education is modeled in the interest and in the image of the industrial system

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Kindergartners demonstrate higher percentages of divergent thinking than 8-10 year olds, than 13-15 year olds, etc.

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How do we educate our children to take their place in the economy of the 21st century?

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How do we educate our children so they have a sense of cultural identity?