jueves, 7 de julio de 2016
HOW DO SCHOOLS KILL CREATIVITY?
What has shocked you in this video?
In what ways does your school encourage creativity?
How can we foster a creative culture in our classes? in our department? in our school?
Are there any downsides to these ideas?
Write your opinions in a new comment and react to your classmates opinions. Critical thinking is a 21st century skill!
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First of all.. an excellent drawer... hahahhaha
ResponderEliminarI love animations! and the art is great!
EliminarIt was a very cool way to draw the attention of the viewer while focusing on content, indeed!!
EliminarYes. Definitely!!
EliminarFor me it was hard to follow.
EliminarFirst, what shocks me is how real it is and how well he summarizes education through an animated picture!
ResponderEliminarIt is incredible that we are still in the 19th century as far as education is concerned!
EliminarI found interesting the fact that we should wonder if it is right to group students according to their age.
ResponderEliminarWhat are your suggestions?
EliminarWhile there being similarities, the educational system and the social context Spain are not those of the US, as it is also influenced by European pedagogical traditions.
ResponderEliminarNowadays, school not only consider standardized tests as a means to assess the students' knowledge, and I believe that thinking that way is extremely reductive.
We can foster creative culture by working on projects in the classroom which are meaningful to our students, competential and transversal across subjects.
There is a long way ahead but I believe that, as teachers, we are steadily working our way there.
I see, but some teachers are reluctant to use project work. Why do you think that happens?
EliminarThey don't feel confident enough, I guess
EliminarYou actually need to work in team with other teachers (scary!), design the materials to implement (that's too much time!! everything is in the book already!!), use more complex classroom management skills (...but I want to take it easy, I have lots of sessions today!) and assess them accordingly through purposedly created assessment tools (...wouldn't a test over 10 be alright, anyway??).
EliminarI agree with what you say!!! There is a long way but we must work hard for this indispensable change and I try to be positive and believe that something is moving this direction...
EliminarI also agree with what you say, Miquel Àngel! Teachers don't like "extra work", and that's why some of them are reluctant to use project work. However, I think we can change that!
EliminarI so mush agree with you Miquel Angel that peaple are really scared about working collaborativelly!
EliminarIn my opinion one of the ways we can foster creativity in our schools is by letting our students think, choose, propose, and especially involve themselves in the lessons and also in the schools decisions.
ResponderEliminarAny examples?
EliminarRelated to lessons, project work? and related to school decisions, assemblies?
EliminarBy watching this video I can say that we - most teachers - are not doing things in the right way. Society has changed a lot and we should adapt to it. But ... unfortunately we haven't been taught how to do it and we have to look for the right tools to succeed. I also think that we are afraid of changing things. What if it doesn't work? What if I can't cope with it? What if I don't know how to do it? I think we should leave all our fears aside and face reality. If we give it a try, I'm sure we'll succeed ! :)
ResponderEliminarThis is a very optimistic point of view. I like it!!
EliminarRight, we are too afraid sometimes. Take some courage and start little by little.
EliminarI totally agree with you, Paquita! I believe that we are already experimenting and coping on these. Little by little we are getting there! :)
EliminarI definitely think he's right in his views but we (teachers and parents) will need some time to adapt to this new perspective. We have mostly been taught the "old way" and we first need to get to know how to help young learners/ young children become critical thinkers.
ResponderEliminarBy now, my school does not have a COMMON approach to creative thinking, it mostly depends on each teacher.
Downsides: Creativity on its own is not enough. It must be accompanied by some sort of structured support.
Yes, that's right. We all need a balanced approach to things.
EliminarI couldn't agree more!! I sometimes find it really difficult to find some place for collaboration in our departments ... I somehow feel we lack this culture!
EliminarI totally agree with you, Rosa!! However, I believe that we, as teachers who have been educated in the traditional way, are working a lot on improving education!! Little by little we are getting there! :)
EliminarYes, that's right. I believe we can make some changes.
EliminarIt's a good video, it really makes you think a lot,I got the main idea, however, I think there's too much information, drawings and commments...
ResponderEliminarI have to say that when I go into the classroom the first day of school and I see there are different types of students I always promise myself to do something for them, with them...because they might need another kind of learning... but I have to admitt that I don't have time to think about how to do it, what to do, how to evaluate them... Moreover, schools don not have this type of students into account... no time, no methodology for them... it's a pitty. Any help?
Collaboration, I think. You cannot make a difference in everyone's life, but you can be helpful to a bunch of them. Ask other teachers, talk to the kids. Sometimes, they just need to be heard.
EliminarThe video was really interesting. Maybe, the key idea is that the education provided at schools is not answering the needs of our 21st C students. We are still anchored in the industrial revolution, and that's a fact. However, I believe that we teachers are struggling to move on and adapt to what is expected from us in these changing times. I think the problem lies in ECONOMY. The government is not investing on education and you cannot start this kind of revolution in a 'low cost' style. Books are now becoming obsolete but ... Where are the resources, WIFIs, training courses, training workshops, ...
ResponderEliminarPersonally, I sometimes feel I am kind of working for a 'charity' and I am not a volunteer I want to be a professional teacher working together with a group of professional teachers.
You are completely right ! Politicians always pretend they are interested in education but they always lie. And we have to cope with 38 students in a classroom ... and survive !!!
EliminarI agree, we must forget about politicians and think about our 38 students... and survive.
EliminarSchool is based on an old model from at least 19th century. Nowadays society is different and students have different abilitites and attitudes which are not at all well treated.
ResponderEliminarMy school uses laptops and encourages group work as a way to interfere in the modern society but of course this is not enough.
We should improve our lessons by using more interactive material and updated one related to everydays life, related to the sudent's real interests.Topics must be made relevant to them.Teachers should all go in the same direction and know what the goals are and how we pretend to achieve them.
In my school creativity is encoraged from the art department, but apart from this, it isn't promoted.I think creativity is very difficult to achieve as well as critical thinking. Children are used to being given everything, maybe we should change this perception.
ResponderEliminarWhy don't we ask them?
EliminarThis is a good video to make you think about the current eduction system and what needs to be changed according to the new studies about learning (multiple intelligences, emotional education, NLP, etc.). We need to adapt our schools (conceived as the video says in the 19th century) to new methodologies to help our students learn for two reasons: first, our surrounding world is constantly changing and second, we know better how our brain works and how we can emotionally be influenced to foster learning.
ResponderEliminarSchools kill creativity since they do not help students develop their multiple intelligences (in general, only the linguistic and mathematical are focused on) and visual, kinesthetic or musical students may be doomed to failure.
We should include different types of activities to practice the 8 multiple intelligences in our lessons.
It is also important to make our students critical, in the sense of making them able to react to the society and the information they receive so that they make their own opinions and they can provide feedback to improve anything.
I like you mention the 8 multiple intelligences. My background on this subject is very poor. For the last few years, I have realized that as teachers, we can't ignore them.
EliminarThe video is really inspiring. It's shocking to think that the traditional education has been a mistake for a long time.
ResponderEliminarIt worked... last century. We are a product of that and we are good professionals, aren't we?
EliminarI also think it was right for its time, and I agree with you Abel, we are its product and have the responsibility to... let's say.. modify it.
EliminarGood!! It worked!!
EliminarLet's be a bit pessimistic though. I think that the educational system that we are suggesting means more money since it requires smaller groups, more trained teachers, etc
I really like the way he uses to describe the educational system and, of course, his drawings! I think that to ecourage creativity we should ask our students to think, give opinions, propose things... They need to be able to express themselves in different ways, and to show all the strengths they have. Working with projects is a good way to get that, and not the only one. We have to be creative too!
ResponderEliminarNúria, I totally agree with you. To me, the most difficult part is to be creative as a teacher. We were not educated to be creative and now we have to.
EliminarDo you remember the first present on Monday? ;)
EliminarI totally agree with this video. Not much has shocked me.
ResponderEliminarIn our school, most teacher are aware of the importance of creativity and are trying to foster group activities and projects which connect them with other schools or subjects. They are also involved in "Idees Joves" Project as an example of fostering creativity.
As I said above, by encouraging students' imagination, by offering them interesting projects and activities.
I don't see very many drawbacks. Perhaps, the hardest side is evaluation. How to cope with evaluation. We will also have to change this.
Yes, definitely. 21st century school needs 21st century assessment. Have you heard about rubrics?
EliminarWhat most shocked me is the fact that students ability decreases as they grow, so education has a negative influence.
ResponderEliminarIn our school creativity is encouraged in some activities, for example in projects, but I believe we do not exploit it as much as we could. Why? Our lessons are teacher centred most of the time, we should try to change into more student centred work, let them have the possibility to choose and design the topics of their work.
Yes, it's sad to see that! I agree that teachers should change this 19th C. role. I think projects could work very well catering for mixed-ability in class.
EliminarI was really impressed by the contents of that video. We are in front of a new education paradigm. Teachers and society have to change their minds and structures in order to connect the educational process with a new and changing society.
ResponderEliminarAlthough I do agree with some of the ideas presented in the animation, they are a bit utopian. For instance, organising kids in courses acording to their abilities and not according to the year they were born is a fantastic idea, but nowadays it is not possible since children sharing lessons with yourger students would be stigmatised.We must bear in mind that children are not only separated by birthyear at school,for example, at football clubs. However I do think that there should be a different grouping since as we saw in "Economia en Colors" most end-of-year kids never get to stand out from the crowd.
ResponderEliminarI also think that we need time to adapt to the new tendencies. Sometimes it can be really stressing.
ResponderEliminar1. What most schocked me is the fact that we are still teaching as in the past and we haven't evolved that much. Our society is very much interested in standarising rather than increasing people's capacity to create new things.
ResponderEliminar2. We join in projects in which some students can produce real products such as mobile phone apps. Some students of 4th ESO attend Cinema en Curs and at the end of the course they come out with outstanding video creations. The same happens with some students of 1st BAT.
In some areas (Arts above all) teachers encourage students to participate in photograpy competition.
3. Teachers must let us go. We want to control everything and we want our students to be quiet and follow us the same way as we did.
In our department we could promote open activities connected to real life.
In our school teachers shouldn't be so much obsessed with contents and they should participate in motivating projects to learn the useful side of creativity.
4. I can't see any
Great views and great ideas. I like the photography idea!
Eliminarand the cinema, of course.
Personally, I should try to work in projects in class and let students be the centre. In this way, I can promote their creativity. I'm thrilled.
ResponderEliminarFrom these comments we all agree we should change education.But how can we do it? little by little? school by school? department by department? projects? is there really a pedagogical thinking behind or just a set of different activities?
ResponderEliminarIt's true that critical thinking is a 21st century skill but who teaches us to be critical?
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