Sir Ken Robinson once again brilliantly analyses the state of our current systems of education and in particular addresses the fiction of an ADHD epidemic – aided by the wonderfully cogent animations of the RSA – in this talk on Changing Education Paradigms.
Share this with your teachers – and your kids.
Cheers.
I found this over on the AdaFruit blog where they have neat stuff you can build and also cool ideas to infect your mind with.
Peter Coyote is perhaps best known by the mass audience as the guy with the jangling keys in E.T. but he’s got an incredible body of work and a life that embraces significant cultural and political issues – so when he talks about art and creativity – you listen:
The folks at AdaFruit were especially tweaked by Coyote’s statements on how important the integration of the arts and sciences are – that they are not and should not be isolated endeavours. It’s well known that music and math are inextricably linked – so why do we constantly see music programs being cut from schools while pressure is brought to bear to produce better math students? It’s insane. It’s misguided. It’s dumbass cracker dogma and it’s gotta stop.
Art is life – we must infuse every aspect of our lives with artistic and creative purpose. This makes us better people and makes for a better world.
So anytime some ignorant yahoo smug-faced know-it-all politician tells you the arts aren’t important and need to be cut back – you stand up and tell them to fuck off.
Cheers.
Isaac Asimov talks to Bill Moyers in 1988 about the implications of everyone having access to computers that are linked to everyone else – and how this access to information will revolutionize how we all learn. Brilliant stuff.
He’s one smart dude – and probably the only person in the world who could sport such outrageous whiskerage.
Cheers.
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