Changing Paradigms

This lecture with Sir Ken Robinson was well worth the 55minutes running time. His views on the need for education reform here in the United States is right on. I like his thoughts on what and why we need to change. One particular statement was "Trying to meet the future by doing what they did in the past." I agree with his take on the hierarchy of our education during the enlightenment and how we now need to change hierarchy. We no longer need to focus on just math, science and english, with the arts at the bottom. The majority of the work force in no longer the blue collar worker.


I particularly like his view on the increase number of students diagnosed with ADHD and his analogy about tonsils. People had their tonsils taken out because that's what they believed. The same is true for children diagnosed with ADHD. They are diagnosed with a "fake disease". His believe that these students are bored. We are not grabbing their interest, so we are diagnosing them and anesthetizing them with medication. His quote "we education from the outside in rather than what interest and drives people."

Why not promote the arts, technology, dance, and theater if that's what's a students interest.
Our children are born of the technological age. We have read so many articles in this course stressing how we need to change, reform, get with the times. His lecture reinforced all that we learned in this course. We as educators need to make the change!

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