Thursday, July 11, 2013

pedagogy and ken robinson

My name is Annie and after watching two videos, these are the main points and at the bottom, my opinions.

What is pedagogy?
*Pedagogy was originally defined as the art of teaching children and it is currently defined as the process of teaching in the video clip What is Pedagogy?
*The speaker mentions that the process of teaching includes the content, learning strategies, assignments and the mental process of learning. As future teachers, our pedagogy will influence the way we teach and the way our students learn.

TED-SIR KEN ROBINSON (2006) 
*Claims everyone, including himself, is interested in education
*Unpredictability= our education system is training students for a future we are unsure of, children starting school this year will retire in 2065 and we don't even know what the next five years will be like
*Strongly believes ALL children have talent
*Public education system hinders our creativity
*Public education system discourages students from being wrong and making mistakes which stops students from taking risks and fill them with fear
*"If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original."
*Believes that as we grow up, the creativity is sucked out of us as we get older
*Tells the story of his transition from England to L.A and mentions that all school systems have the same hierarchy of subjects, with the arts at the bottom
*No school teaches dance and promotes creativity because our society revolves around industrialism
*The purpose of education at this point is to create workers that will obey rules and resist asking questions
*In 30 years a degree will be worthless because of academic inflation
*Intelligence is diverse, dynamic, and distinct
*Creativity: The process of producing original ideas with value

**I personally agree with Sir Ken Robinson's "pedagogy" because his philosophy focuses on the students and their needs. He cares about helping the students be creative and helping them achieve their full potential. Intelligence is different when it comes to every person, our education system cannot continue to be based on the "wrong" and "right" answers because that hinders critical thinking and creativity. He believes that we should do much more than create industrial "zombies" and allow there to be room for mistakes. I think his ideas are helpful and even realistic but unfortunately, im sure many people would be against this form of educating.

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