Ken Robinson-Creativity in Schools

After watching Ken Robison's video I found it interesting how he incoorperated humor into his speech while still trying to maintain the seriousness of the point that he was making. He also broke his point into two pieces for the first few minutes and then put them together for the end of the intro to his speech. I will take away both of those concepts from the video and try to make them work for my own
presentation.

It seemed as though Mr. Robinson didn't have his speech very organized, because he would tell a story and then make his point, which was a bit confusing considering the fact that the story is put into the speech to restate the point he made or was making. When first watching the video, it seemed as though the humor of the speech was the main part of the TED talk instead of schools killing the creativity of children, this was because there were so many jokes interlinked with his stories and points. His overall ideas though were very fascinating and made me understand why he was chosen to do a TED talk.

I think that his TED talk was so effective because the topic of creativity and schooling relate to everybody who has had public schooling. Of course in today's schooling world it's not as much of an issue, but it is still an issue. Even though schools are now keeping the art and music classes, the content within the classes is still debateable. I personally have never taken an art class that said 'just create whatever you would like' or even 'create something that represents a part of you'; instead they say 'draw that bowl of fruit so that it looks like a bowl of fruit'. Having the art classes seems to make schools look like they are well invested in a child's creativity, the fact of the matter is that they don't let the children flourish with their own ideas. The parts of the world that have that kind of freedom, are the parts with the most indeviduality and probably the highest IQs because they are allowed to develope that part of their brain and can connect their art to other topics being studied in school.

Overall, Mr. Robinson had a good idea with a less than perfect execution, but still good enough to be entertaining and interesting.