Sir Ken Robinson is back

Speaking at the Apple Education Leadership Summit. Edutopia.org is the host of the video.


A few of my observations (in no particular order):

1. Three main ideas -
   
1. There is a global REVOLUTION in changing education.  [He defines revolution]
2. Human Ecology (love this phrase) - Crisis is that creativity is educated out of students - economically cheaper to pay to get it right first rather than clean up the mess - expense for higher ed vs. prisons.
3. We must do something else - NOT education REformation -- education TRANSformation.
2. Education is not linear.
3. Final quote (loosely) - "It's not that we aim too high and fail, we aim too low and succeed" that is our problem.  By "succeeding" under the current system we see no need to change.
4. Perhaps this is my cynicism sneaking in, but this talk was only slightly different than the TEDtalk from 2006.  The audience at TED got his jokes, were engaged in the discussion, and applauded at the end.  Here, in the presence of educational leaders, there were glazed looks, side conversations, and little laughter (as Robinson tried three times to help them understand the humor in a comment on "only one crisis at a time).

I am particularly interested and taken by the "human ecology" concept he promotes.  I want more of this idea.

//Tip of the hat to Durff through Twitter.

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