Friday, December 10, 2010

Additional Assignment # 3

sir king

Sir Ken Robinson: Changing Education Paradigms:

This is a pretty intense but well thought out video in my opinion.  Once I started watching it, I could not stop.  All the drawings and the way he was saying things really got me thinking.  His video had a big impact on the way I view some things.  He talks about why would schoosl lower education and that we need to do the opposite and raise education.  In the culture of the Enlighenment or the Industrial Revolution, he said that public education was a revolutanary idea and people objected it.  He also talked about how there was a modern epidemic, the plague of ADHD.  He says that there is no thing as ADHD.  I have to disagree.  I know some students can perfom well in their studies and some simply can not.  I know it is possible for those students who perform poorly to perform just as well with much more work then some other students.  Medicince has been proven to help students that struggle to pay attention, calm them down, and concentrate more on their work.  He says that when children are distracted from "boring stuff" they are given a drug to control ADHD symptoms.  He laughs at this and says it is a fititus epedemic.  I do agree that an aesenthetic does shut off your senses.  But I also feel that some people do need these drugs in order to follow the class on the same level.  Very interesting video.  I am still a little confused so any advice on this video would be greatly appriacated.

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