Last week we watched Sir Ken Robinson's 2006 TED Talk as a class, and I must say that this video truly struck a chord with me. While the video was thoroughly enjoyable due to his comic elements, he also had such excellent points on our school systems and the lack of creative thinking within them. He raises the question "are schools killing creativity" and based on his statements this appears to be true! He made the point that there really is a classic hierarchy of subjects where the Arts are typically ignored and the subjects that are seen as beneficial to work are favored and this is so true...but why? As we have seen through our development and curriculum courses, students really do learn in a million different ways. We are each unique and therefore deserve a learning experience that does not just benefit the mathematical and scientific thinkers, but the dancers, the singers, and the artists as well. I truly believe that schools need to incorporate more of these artistic mediums into their lessons because if not, the creative people that the world needs will not grow and flourish and produce the creative works that we need, and this is a future that I find very troubling.
It is interesting that we were shown this video in a math class as opposed to one of our more Arts related courses. It got me thinking that even though math has always been seen as one of the serious/challenging/dreaded/intimidating subjects this does not need to be the case. Where we all learn differently, whether it be visually, spatially, through movement,etc, we need to approach math the same way we approach the arts: with a creativity in mind. Math does not always need to be lessons, text book problems, tests, quizzes, but can be taught through movement, art, and music. As a future teacher, it is important for me to keep this in mind when I am teaching math because I want to reach all of my students and keep creativity alive and thriving.
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