In this YouTube clip, Sir Ken Robinson, a world-renowned education and creativity expert discusses the modern paradigm of education in an RSA Animate production. This caricatured interpretation of our nation's obsession with the "ADHD epidemic" explains why our standardized system of educating children should be taken in a different direction.
Robinson explains that our education is modeled on the concept of industrialization; we need to move away from this production line mentality. This runs parallel to the evolving concepts of product development and consumer co-creation that we talk about in class. Children should be encouraged to learn by expressing their ideas and understanding that there are a lot of possible answers to the questions they face. Robinson says "most great learning happens in groups," and that classroom cheating should be simply labeled as collaboration. The consumer world is changing, so the same concept should trickle down into our educational models.
Labels: Co-creation, Education
Fantastic video! Smart ideas and cool graphics. Ken hits the nail of the head! In addition to our educational system, most of our other institutions were build for an firm-based economy. These institutions will be under considerable pressure as our economy shifts towards users and away from large firms. This view is also shared by Ivan Illich in his book, Tools for convivialaity.
Maybe this, in part, could be further justified by the fact that many societies that are less individual-focused (ex: Japan, China) yield higher scores on standardized tests. Cheating is just collaborating...interesting.