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Video 1. Sir Ken Robinson, Changing Paradigm
We stigmatize mistakes. And we’re now running national educational systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make — and the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities.
Sir Ken Robinson.
According to Ken Robinson, The problem is that the current system of education was designed and conceived and structured for a different age. It was conceived in the intellectual culture of the Enlightenment, and in the economic circumstances of the Industrial Revolution. Our children are living in the most intensely stimulating period in the history of the earth. They are being besieged with information and parse their attention from every platform, computers, from iPhones, from advertising from hundreds of television channels. And we are penalizing them for getting distracted.
The Arts especially address the idea of Aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak. When you're present in the current moment. When you are resonating with the excitement of this thing that you're experiencing. When you are fully alive. And aesthetic is when you shut your senses off, and deaden yourself what's happening. We're getting our children through education by anaesthetizing them. We should be doing the exact opposite. We shouldn't be putting them asleep, we should be waking them up, to what they have inside of themselves.
Divergent thinking isn't the same thing as creativity. Creativity is the process of having original ideas which have value. Divergent thinking isn't a synonym, but it's an essential capacity for creativity. It's the ability to see lots of possible answers to a question. Lots of possible ways of interpreting a question. To think not just in linear or convergent ways but to see multiple answers and not one. You start off not being very good but you get better as you get older. It shows us 2 things: One is we all have this capacity, and Two: It mostly deteriorates.A lot have happened to these kids as they grown up, a lot. But one of the most important things that happened is that by now they've become educated. They spend 10 years in school being told there is one answer, it's at the back, and don't look. And don't copy because that's cheating. Outside of school that's called collaboration but inside schools it isn't because teachers wanted this way. It's just because it happens that way. It's because it's in the gene pool of education.
Video 2 & 3 Sugato Mitra
School in the Cloud - SOLE
Future of Learning.
My wish is to help design the future of learning by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate sense of wonder. Help me build the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can embark on intellectual adventures by engaging and connecting with information and mentoring online. I also invite you, wherever you are, to create your own miniature child-driven learning environments and share your discoveries.
Mitra wants children around the globe, in addition to traditional schooling, to get a chance to participate in self-organized learning.In 1999, he began what he calls his “hole in the wall” experiment.He carved a hole in a wall in a Delhi slum — about three feet high — and placed a computer in it.Kids had gathered around within a matter of hours and asked Mitra questions about what this thing was.He responded “I don’t know,” and walked away.
Soon the kids were surfing the internet – and teaching each other how to do it more effectively.
If children have internet then education happens.
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