TED Talk Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the Learning Revolution

What in education is out of date like the wristwatch, "a single function device?"

Even the most basic of school will never change. I have family in each stage of school preschool, kindergarden, elementary, middle school, high school and myself in college. The most out of date function in school is that the school system believes all students learn the same. Teacher speaks student listen and the information is retained. School systems see us as a single function watch. Now in a new age with new technology and we are in a digitized time we learn in many different aspects. Some may learn by listening but many learn by watching, doing, performing and interacting. As teachers they will go out of their way to teach students no matter how silly or time consuming it may be. Schools do not offer programs or ask parents for example how your child learns best. As simple as learning is something that is not so easy any more, students drop out or students do not continue after school just because "they do not have the spirit"(robinson).



Ideas from the clip:

• no need for an evolution we need a revolution
• brought up in a different world
• single function
• now is digitized time is every where, dont need to do it
• education: lunarity: do something now go through it and do everything right you will be set in life
• organic life: create our life while we explore our talent
• trying to get students to college
• doesn't feed the spirit
• manufacturing model of education
• do not model the people
• not mechanical it is organic
• creates the conditions

http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html

Reeling in Research

Reeling in Research

            In the “Rule of Three” my developing focus in our educational system is that students should stand up for the change they want. Growing up in an education system it is pounded into our heads that we cannot speak unless we raise our hand, if you have nothing to say to not say it at all, we have to be a judge free classroom, but when is it ok to speak your mind. When we go home after a day of school the same mentality is in our comfort zone, our parents even tell us not to speak unless we are spoken too. We keep quiet to not disobey our parents, teachers or anyone with authority.

            As we grow up, many of us students go to school to make our parents proud, go to school for what our parents or society want us to become and to get a job that pays well and has good benefits. Keeping quiet and obeying our parents will later realize everything we have done was never for you. In the Passion Project by Skye Ontiveros, Romeo states, “it’s hard for me sometimes because there’s something where they expect you to become what they want to become. No one should tell me what to do but um my mom and my dad is trying to my business in the future and then force me to take it”(3). Along with many other students in the passion project stating that their parents want them to work in career that has money and than later think of your happiness.  In an article “I hate my Career Choice” writer states, “I still feel wrong. Uneasy. Each time I think about going to work I feel physically sick. I hate that feeling. And it's nothing my workplace has done perse.” Hating your job for no reason is the worse feeling because you have wasted time and money into something you are not satisfied with. Louise Thompson in “Needing parental approval” claimed, “I can't tell you how many people stay in a situation that is not right for them because they don't want to lose the approval of their parents. From students doing a degree they hate, to professionals slogging up a career ladder that is high in following in familial footsteps but low in personal satisfaction”.

Together all these stories have the same objective to disobey your parents or you will be stuck hating the job, life and person you have become. The teacher tells you to hold your comments, speak up tell them what is need to be said. Parents are planning your future, step up and tell them you have one planned already. Speak up and stay committed to what makes you happy. Later on in life, you will not hate yourself for making this career choice, people say when you love what you do you never have to work a day in your life again.

Work Cited

"I Hate My Career Choice. Now What?!" Offbeat Home RSS. N.p., 4 Jan. 2013. Web. 03 Sept. 2013

Thompson, Louise. "Louise Thompson: Needing Parental Approval." The New Zealand Herald 20 May 2013: n. pag. Web. <http://web.ebscohost.com.proxy1.clpccd.cc.ca.us/ehost/detail?vid=3&sid=b6f6f86a-22db-493f-893a-f7cd6fa369de%40sessionmgr111&hid=124&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=n5h&AN=HOB139280018313>.

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How does the blog space reflect you: the title PeaceOfCyn is pretty much who I am put together in one. A piece of me, but yet everything about me is about peace and unity. Life it self isn’t any fun without any sin in it and i have always loved my name. The background of my page is space or a galaxy because i never believed the quote the sky is the limit since the sky is the beginning and you always have more to achieve.

What is most important to you? What are you passionate about: in life, the most important thing for me is security. I want to make sure that whatever I decide I do in life that it will keep my family and I secure and never have to worry. Honestly, I have never been passionate about anything. I love to do things but never where I was head over heels in love with.

Why are you in school: school is the ticket out. There is no success without school. I go because one day I want to support and help my family. Also, I go to learn more than basic information, I want to have a conversation with people I don’t know somewhere in the world. For me, going to school shows a sign that I am still young and still have my whole life to do great, this is my time take classes I don’t need, find my career and change it again, meet new people and learn from my mistakes.

What do you hope to get out of this class: be more attentive when I read. I just highlight key points but never get into the story where I have a "conversation" with the story.

How do you see what you value most helping you with your college career: I value my family, and they are what keep me going since what I do in life will be for them.