Sustainable Bonanza » Creativity http://www.kirstenbonanza.com Living with Passion and Purpose. Create Better Impact Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:59:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Making Education a Pull not a Push http://www.kirstenbonanza.com/2010/07/26/making-education-a-pull-not-a-push/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.kirstenbonanza.com/2010/07/26/making-education-a-pull-not-a-push/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:23:50 +0000 admin http://www.kirstenbonanza.com/?p=846

This TED talk by Charles Leadbeater is great.  He bring into the conversation third world examples of education.  Some of the great points and innovations that I think he hits on include:

1) Project based learning which has to be productive.

2) The inclusion of creativity and using games to teach.

3) Using the Chinese restaurant model – it spreads, looks different depending on where you are, but is recognizable for what it is.

Enjoy!

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When designing curriculum and lessons I try to remind myself that we are teaching the leaders of tomorrow.  They will hold jobs that probably do not yet exist.  They will live in a world that we can not even begin to imagine, and yet, that is our task.  Prepare the students for something about which we know little to nothing.  There is certainly not a proficiency exam for this, unlike those that you must take to obtain a license in your chosen specialty.

What a daunting task.

The speed of life seems to be increasing.  Innovations come faster.  Engineering students first year knowledge is invalid by their third year.  So while we can certainly go forward by imagining what might be in the future, it seems that it might make more sense to make sure that we raise adaptable students, who are creative and can assess and meet any challenge they might face with systems thinking and an eye to sustainability.

Still a little daunting to think about, but I believe that is a much more manageable challenge and one which we can begin to incorporate into class tomorrow.

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