“Changing education paradigms” video
talks about the requirement to change the focus of the current education
system. It combines high speed drawings with the speech of Sir Ken Robinson. It
is very difficult to summarize the explained subject in few sentences because
it is a so dense talking. Therefore, I am going to point out the most relevant
to me.
Mr. Robinson begins by explaining that
one of the pillars which used to hold and still holds our education system is
the economy. Children, and people in general, were told to study to get a good
job. The higher level education you had, the better job you got. The economic
turmoil we are just living shows that this statement has been altered. We have
to change our mind about it.
Another important aspect that
Robinson points out is the rise of the ADHD prescription. Kids are going to
school medicated. On one hand they are living in a society full of visual
stimulus as ever in the History. On the
other hand they are required to listen to monotonous explanations sitting in
their classrooms. It is a contradiction.
I totally agree with Sir Ken
Robinson. The bases, procedures and purposes of Education have to change,
especially in university studies. Coping notes from boards and attending
endless lectures has no meaning. Students should attempt to work and to reason
for understanding the world they will manage. For example, I refuse that my
students to memorize texts, or parts of them. Nobody needs to learn by heart
all the capitals of the Africa countries when everybody has an Internet
connection mobile so searching the capital of Mali does not take more than one
minute. Moreover, working in group in the classroom is fine. However, what
about when they start talking about the television series they watched last
night?
