Reimagining School! by Charles Copeland https://padlet.com/cjc06640/njahq2yqbf0d Looks at Two Videos and decides the best way to reimagine education. en-us 2018-04-11 00:31:47 UTC 2018-04-11 01:22:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Apple.png cjc06640 https://padlet.com/cjc06640/njahq2yqbf0d/wish/250525840 2018-04-11 00:37:57 UTC https://padlet.com/cjc06640/njahq2yqbf0d/wish/250525840 Do Schools Kill Creativity? cjc06640 https://padlet.com/cjc06640/njahq2yqbf0d/wish/250525899 This is the first video that I watched. Ken Robinson speaks about the fact that we are supposed to be educating our children on the way to live their lives in the world as it will be in five years; however, the point that he makes is that we don't know what the world is going to look like five years from now. He states that we squander all of our children's talents pretty profoundly. He states that if you aren't prepared to be wrong, you never will come up with anything original. He believes that we are educating people out of their creative capacities. He talks about how Shakespeare was seven at some point, and that he was in someone's English class at some point as well. He mentions that he moved from Stratford to Los Angeles, and that his son didn't want to come. He said every education system on earth has the same hierarchy of subjects, with the arts at the bottom. He believes that this is wrong. As children grow up, they are educated progressively from the waist up, focusing more on their heads and then on one side of their brain. The whole purpose of education is to produce university professors. However, they shouldn't be the high watermark of life. They live in their heads and are disembodied. The whole system of public education came into being to meet the needs of industrialism. You were probably steered away from things that you loved on the grounds that you could never get a job doing that. Universities have designed the system in their image, which has placed a lack of importance on the arts. Suddenly, degrees are not important. Intelligence is diverse, dynamic, and it is distinct. 

I'd like to provide my own personal opinion on this video, although my opinion is in no way educational. This is amazing. He embodies and speaks of all of the things that I feel. In education, I have always felt a sense of wandering hopelessness and have lacked direction, but I have always been musically creative. Music has been taken out of my life and replaced by education. I'm on medicine for the gap that this has created in my life, and the only thing that most people say to me is that "school wasn't meant for everyone." I think we need to educate our children to be happy rather than educate them to be educators. If they find that they are passionate about education, they should do it. But their creative capacities must be seen for the richness that they are. 

]]> 2018-04-11 00:38:20 UTC https://padlet.com/cjc06640/njahq2yqbf0d/wish/250525899 A Short Intro to the Studio School cjc06640 https://padlet.com/cjc06640/njahq2yqbf0d/wish/250528463 Geoff felt that he wanted to find the right kind of school that would help students want to stay in rather than get out. He came up with an answer that he called a studio school. In this school, work and learning were integrated. They were small schools, and 80 percent of the curriculum was done through working with business. All of this would be independently run and funded by public money. He felt teenagers would learn better by doing. He found that the young children found this much more exciting and motivating. Children that did this had jumped to the top of the GCSE's, the British Marking system. It was determined that children were much better prepared for the workforce. Essentially he would turn education on it's head and put marginal ideas at the heart of learning. Essentially they would do what they wanted rather than do what was required of them. They wanted education to be for real, and his hope is that someone out in the world will be able to help him.]]> 2018-04-11 00:56:56 UTC https://padlet.com/cjc06640/njahq2yqbf0d/wish/250528463 My Thoughts cjc06640 https://padlet.com/cjc06640/njahq2yqbf0d/wish/250529903 The general idea in the two TED talks that were watched was that the way that we have approached schooling and education for the last several decades was too entirely wrong. Not every student has the capacity or the desire to learn through common curriculum where the influence is put largely on different disciplines of academics. Students that are of more creative mindsets may struggle in these situations and have difficulty meeting the expectations of teachers that are more "brainy" as one may put it. For instance, I achieve decent grades but it is a struggle for me because I have music in my head constantly and cannot ever seem to focus. However, I was taught that musicianship was not a job and a career in music would be impractical and implausible. The second Ted talk talks about how we could re-imagine schools to be more focused on doing. This way, students could be more prepared when they enter the workforce. ]]> 2018-04-11 01:04:24 UTC https://padlet.com/cjc06640/njahq2yqbf0d/wish/250529903 Citations (APA) cjc06640 https://padlet.com/cjc06640/njahq2yqbf0d/wish/250531866 Mulgan, G. (n.d.). A short intro to the Studio School. Retrieved April 11, 2018, from https://www.ted.com/talks/geoff_mulgan_a_short_intro_to_the_studio_school?referrer=playlist-re_imagining_school
Robinson, K. (n.d.). Do schools kill creativity? Retrieved April 11, 2018, from https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity?referrer=playlist-re_imagining_school
]]> 2018-04-11 01:15:21 UTC https://padlet.com/cjc06640/njahq2yqbf0d/wish/250531866 ACTION STATEMENT cjc06640 https://padlet.com/cjc06640/njahq2yqbf0d/wish/250532803 We Can Re-imagine Schools by dedicating more time to activities that students love and care about and fostering creativity through unorthodox methods such as studio schools and fine arts education. ]]> 2018-04-11 01:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/cjc06640/njahq2yqbf0d/wish/250532803