Seth Godin recently gave a TEDx talk about his thought provoking book Stop Stealing Dreams. It’s marvelous. This is the same book that inspired a week of posts on teaching and learning earlier in 2012. I still urge all educators, trainers, students, prospective students, and the staff that support any kind of learning and development to read the book. If you only have 17 minutes though, watch this instead:
“If it’s work, they try to figure out how to do less. And if it’s art, they try to figure out how to do more. And when we put kids in the factory we call school, the thing we built to indoctrinate them into compliance, why are we surprised when the question is “will this be on the test?”
Because when we have students hating school and loving education, we know we need the school system to shift.
What are you doing to support this change? *insert witty plug for the UBC SLC here*
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3 comments
Nanna says:
January 10, 2013 at 7:59 am (UTC -7)
there is more then one way in this world to be an educated man .
Ben Brooks says:
January 10, 2013 at 5:03 pm (UTC -7)
Corker – thanks for sharing the video. While you didn’t say much in your post just pointing us to Seth’s video is quite valuable. Interesting to learn of the origins of many of our teaching methods.
His core question “What is school for?” is really important. Most of the debate about education seems to be about the “How” (class size, charter schools, using technology) and not the WHAT or WHY. In the new economy we need to be teaching kids a host of skills they will never learn in the traditional educational model so they can be prepared to be healthy, productive and happy adults.
Matt Corker says:
January 10, 2013 at 5:17 pm (UTC -7)
Ain’t that the truth!