Sir Ken Robinson's Lecture On Changing Education Ideas

I like how in the beginning of the video that the speaker reassured the audience that the changes in the education system that needs to be made will not call for fewer homework assignments, fewer exams, and a later school start time. By the speaker stating that up front, that helped the audience and video viewers to stay tuned in to what he had to say/present. That was a very effective public speaking/presentation technique. I am all for the speaker’s ideas that were presented in the video. I already try to utilize some of his ideas in the classroom, when I sub for teachers. The speaker’s ideas of how the education system should be setup is exactly the same as mine. His ideas reminded me of the information that we talked about in Module 1 – Sir Ken Robinson’s Lecture on Changing Education Paradigms. Making school more relevant, meaningful, and connected to

I honestly believe that is what we have to do! Help students to realize why it is important to go to school! Make it fun, interesting, and about them! With that being said, the speaker talked about students all over the world looking for their classroom experience to be more meaningful and connect to the world in which we live in. Unfortunately, this is true. Students are desiring to receive more than just information.

High performing students as well as reluctunant learners are hungry for educational purpose and how it relates to their real world experiences. This is an area that needs to be developed more within school systems and not so much pushed aside or to the back. It needs to be addressed promptly and pushed to the forefront. Students want to know how school relates to the world outside of the classroom and what they need to learn and apply in their lives, in order to be able to utilize the information that they learn in school in the real world. Sadly, teachers also yearn for more academic and real world connection, because they know that applied