Dan Pink: The Puzzle
Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity?
Howard Gardner : Five Minds for the Future
John Seely Brown: A New Culture of Learning
My key insights from each video, is that as an educator, I need to honor the natural talents that each student possesses. All students are capable of learning, they might have different avenues in which they obtain their knowledge, however, and that should not be diminished. Creativity, is something that can be learned, and does not need to be intrinsic. We cannot simply learn to be creative, we must practice being creative through trial and error. We must become comfortable with being uncomfortable in our learning if we wish to make headway into solving problems with creative solutions. In terms or my own teaching, I often tell my students to be brave, demonstrate the math problem on the board even if they are wrong or confused, because the only way we can learn is by doing and receiving constructive feedback. I found this article to be very thoughtful and am thinking of ways that I can share it with my students.
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Jose G. Cerda
11/12/2017 08:57:53 pm
"We must become comfortable with being uncomfortable in our learning if we wish to make headway into solving problems with creative solutions." I completely agree with this, I think it is a great way of thinking when things are frustrating and not working out. It is part of the process I am going through, learning to be comfortable when being uncomfortable.
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Lisa Gottfried
11/13/2017 06:02:08 pm
You are asking some powerful questions. I especially like your thinking about how to bring some of this material to your kids. If students are demonstrating their skills in alternative ways, what systems for assessment would help you, as a teacher to grade? What skills need to be assessed and how many different ways can students express their knowledge. It might be fun to deconstruct a lesson and then brainstorm all the different ways a student might show their understanding. I'd love to be a fly on the wall for that conversation in the classroom!
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Heather
11/13/2017 08:44:38 pm
I find it so hard to break this mold of "getting it right the first time." No matter how many times I assure students about learning from their mistakes, they still struggle to find the right answer before anything else. I agree, we need to share these ideas often with our students!
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