Education+Today

====February 2, 2010 Reactions to Ken Robinson's animated video: (please put your first name next to your comment so that we know who to attribute the idea to. Then please collaborate by responding to other students' ideas.====

Ivana: Ken Robinson said that even if you had a degree it's not a guarantee that you will get a job which If you think about it than it's not really fair. You work so hard in high school, to go to college, and then to getting a degree without getting a job as the end results. That was shocking to me and unbelievable. But I thought that Ken Robinson's video was interesting because he's pretending to write on the white board. I enjoyed watching the video, it gave me a lot of good information.

Emeline: I learned a lot from Ken Robinson's video. I was not aware of these flaws that education is facing today! The biggest topic that stuck out to me was the issue of ADHD in children. Doctors are medicating them in order to stay calm and pay attention in class, but the students are only becoming tired, not learning as much as they could be. I agree with Robinson's idea that the students with Attention Deficit Disorder should be woken up rather than taking risky medications. I also agree with Ivana that it is unfair to work so hard throughout high school and college to earn a degree, but then one is unable to get a job. This only discourages students from wanting to go to school at all. I think the video clip was interesting and I really liked the drawings on the white board!

Jasmine: I found Ken Robinson's video to be interesting because the visuals that he provided through the drawings helped make the points he was making easier to understand. Furthermore, I agree with what Ivana and Emeline were saying about how it is unfair that people who spend the majority of their lives going through the education system are not able to get a job. The part of the video that I found to be the most interesting was the study done on kindergarteners about divergent thinking. The idea that people actually lose the ability to do divergent thinking as they attain an education was something that I found quite shocking. Overall, I believe that the video provided a lot of information in an accessible way.