Week Two Blog -- Sir Ken Robinson Response

I posted this as a comment last week, but wasn't sure if we were supposed to post it as a real post. Here it is.

This video really made me think. The idea of becoming "disenthralled" with different areas of education and allowing change to come where it's needed really stuck with me. His point that we have built our educational models around that of fast food scared me, but it was a valid point. We so value conformity in a classroom that students who are not gifted in the ways that are valued in a classroom may be labeled as "stupid" or "incompetent." The "revolution" that Robinson suggests, however, would be very hard to implement and would take a lot of time and effort. I think that using technology more in the classroom would be a good way to unlock the potential of kids with different needs or types of intelligences. It would change everything and be completely worth it, if we can find the passion to implement it.