In place of the “unlecture”

As I discovered after the tutorial this week, there were in fact several Youtube clips for us to watch in place of not having the unlecture. The particular video shown above shows a TED talk by Ken Robinson about creativity in children and what schools are potentially doing to this. I found it very interesting how he spoke about how original ideas are formed on the basis of being wrong and making mistakes, and when looking at past experiences that I myself have had I found this to be 100% true. With this in mind he then made it clear to see how there is a new notion in schools where children are punished or discourage for being wrong and it became obvious how this could lead to lack in creativity, something he describes as “just as important as literacy”. I won’t say much more he is such an engaging and interesting speaker that a recommend that it is well worth a watch!

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