Thing 10

Sir Ken Robinson - Do Schools Kill Creativity?



This is one of my favorite videos - was fortunate enough to hear him speak in Lansing a few years back. Very inspiring. He has been criticized as being "too witty" - really? A powerful message, delivered in an entertaining way - this is bad? I will say that his "shtick" wears thin after multiple hearings, but the message remains clear - creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and we are educating the creativity out of our students.

Though embedding a video is very easy to do, I am still amazed when I see it done. Copy, paste, publish. Like the first time my grandfather saw a "talky." Amazing!

The act of downloading a video posted on YouTube is new to me, and I'm very glad to have learned how to do this. When presenting to teachers or other professionals, it is impossible to predict whether the internet connectivity will be working. If something can go wrong, it will. Having a backup file on my hard drive will give me piece of mind.I was able to download easily using KeepVid, and PWNYouTube somehow connected me to Zamzar. I don't know yet if the file has been e-mailed to me, but the interface was simple to use. I added the PWN bookmarklet to my bookmarks - right next to my Bloglines bookmarklet - I'll try using that later on.