Ken Robinson: Creativity in Schools

Watch this video of Sir Ken Robinson (20.04):

Or, you might prefer to read this article from the Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sir-ken-robinson/do-schools-kill-creativity_b_2252942.html

Or read this article from Educational Leadership:
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/sept09/vol67/num01/Why-Creativity-Now%C2%A2-A-Conversation-with-Sir-Ken-Robinson.aspx

1: Join the discussion group called 2.6 Killing Creativity,  and reflect on these questions: 

• “Many creative people think they are not because creativity is stigmatised in schools”:
  In what ways (good and/or bad) were you taught about creativity?
• “If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original”.
  Do you allow yourself and your students to be wrong? How?

For optional enrichment:

In this longish interview (29:47), renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky talks about education and creativity. (By the way, note that he mentions that he himself attended a Deweyite school which fostered his creativity.)

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