Do you agree or disagree with Sir Robinson? In the video, he makes some pretty serious statements such as "I feel creativity should be as important as literacy in today's schools." Do you agree or disagree with this statement. Why or why not? What have your experience with creativity been in the past? How do you express yourself?
Sir Robinson brings up a great theory in this short, twenty minute video. It is that every child is talented and creative, but these two things are often smothered in schools by all the other things on the curriculum, math, science, reading, writing and history. I completely agree with Sir Robinson that schools are not providing time for students to be creative or to do things creatively. I know from practicum experiences and from conversing with current educators that they are struggling to fit the normal content areas into their schedules. Because of the pressures of national testing for funding, areas like reading and math are overrunning our classrooms.Subjects such as science and history are being sacrificed to being taught only once a week, never-mind trying to fit art and music into the mix. I also agree that "creativity should be as important as literacy in today's schools." Being able to be creative is a life long skill that will be essential to students' futures. Creativity should be as important as all the other subjects because young and older minds need time to express the creativity that is innate in them. It is also important for students to learn how to be creative in all aspects of their work because one day that creativity that they learned is what will set them apart from the rest when it comes down to the career world. When time and schedules don't permit for creative learning, creativity must be integrated into other content areas.
My experiences with creativity have been in all different subjects throughout my educational career. In various projects their have been options that inspire creativity such as requiring visuals in a research project such as things like a power point, handout (brochure, pamphlet), or a poster board. In Geometry we used art creativity, we had to draw some monument or building on poster board to scale. In my Asian studies class in high school we had to create a movie where we (the students) did the acting about a time in Asian history. And as an educator I have also incorporated creativity, I have created lesson plans that promoted creativity through creative writing that required drawn pictures.
I express myself through originality. No matter the project I always try to make it original by adding some touch of creativity, whether that's adding some picture to an essay, or creating a colorful power point to spice up a presentation. I know from experience I feel more willing to do school work and proud of the work I did when I know that it is creative.
Creativity gives student work a sense of 'their own' and that brings pride. I believe that creativity adds 'voice' and personality to everything students do. Creativity should be and needs to be encouraged in everything that students do.
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Tonya,
ReplyDeleteIt seems like this speech has brought out a lot of strong opinions in our class. I'm very excited to have a class discussion about this. One aspect that is challenging for educators is that it is difficult to assess. In the U.S., we have such an assessment driven education system that creativity doesn't fit well into the mold. However, if we don't address creativity in all subject area, those new professions that haven't been thought about will never be CREATED!!