Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity

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Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

§My appreciations:

  All children are like a pure paper which can draw many variations or ideations on it. They can present many ways depend on their tremendous creativity. Creativity and imagination are no boundary and limitation but the rules of education restrain the creativeness. Once it is restricted by education, there is no diversity, vigor and difference on all of us. There are surely no interests in the world because the creativeness is insufficient for our needs.

  When we were children and we were not afraid of the wrong. If we failed in something, we had another go at it. We were not shamed at the failure sand mistakes. But when we are in adolescence, we acquire much knowledge in school. We spend much time and effort practicing Math, Chinese, Science, and Chemistry and so on, but we have less time to sing songs, do some artifacts and dancing. Teachers always told to us that “the more practice, the less mistakes”. Under this kind of circumstance, we get frightened of being wrong. However, we can learn the lessons from every mistake and the priceless original ideation will go through many struggle, trial, and failures. If we were afraid of mistakes, we wouldn’t make it.

  We must put the emphasis on creativity because it’s now important in education as literacy. There is no doubt that we should treat it with the same status of the subjects. We outweighed the study itself and it brought about some certain problems which referred in the above. We know that education plays a vital role in our life and it can transfer the illiteracy to literacy. Nevertheless, degrees are just a reference for your study; the creativity is the key point for your competitiveness.

  Nowadays, we are in the red sea which is very demanding and competitive, yet the blue sea is good options for us and the one of chief elements to it is creativity. We cannot overemphasize the importance of creativity. If education could help students motivate or trigger their creativity, I think this is much better for them.

Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of Sixth Sense technology

  Teaching cooperates with Sixth Sense technology

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  At TED India, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.


 §My appreciations:

  1. We began by taking a close look at the unique needs of each learner.

  2. Various scenarios and gestures encountered by them on a daily basis, Sixth Sense provides further understanding and convenience of the guidelines set forth for their learning necessities.

  3. Sixth Sense technology help learners accommodate their different learning scenarios and make the vision more tangible through drawing or sketching on the wall or paper.

  4. By means of palms and then press some virtual but tangible buttons on it, a teacher could share the article on the newspaper with students without the time and space limits.

  5. Sixth Sense technology is the best assistant, for its intelligence; that is, when teachers change the paper’s direction from horizontal to vertical, it can transfer the user-interface automatically. In this way, there will be greater efficiencies in teaching.

  6. Much more information is spring up from all over the world and it results in rapid ideation exchanges. Thanks to the Sixth Sense technology, information is more accessible and tangible.

  There is probably less boundary between the virtual and real word after Sixth Sense technology is invented. Its architectures are defined to help us, consumers or learners get with the various use scenarios. Putting the invention on our fingers helps us to illustrate our ideations and most important of all make the virtual items more tangible.

  It took much time and effort to invent the Sixth Sense technology, and therefore it transfer the information from intangible to tangible successfully. Nowadays, it’s no doubt that it is a one-of-a kind of design.

  Sixth Sense technology is a simple design with only headphones, some sensors and an important item like iPod. As the Ockham’s Razor theory goes, “Given a choice between functionally equivalent designs, the simplest design should be selected.”The result is the best performing and easiest to use it in anytime and anywhere.

  Once we could photo everything through our hands with sensors, the copyright will become easy enough to get. Maybe we can set up some realted laws to protect it. Because an inventor dedicated themselves entirely to their priceless invention, we should take “copyright” into consideration in the future.