I agree with Sir Ken Robinson that schools can kill creativity and I would also argue that schools can kill the joy of learning. I would have used the word “threaten” though rather than kill because I don’t believe you can ever truly kill creativity and the joy of learning. These amazing human experiences are more resilient than perennial weeds and can survive even the strongest institutional herbicides as their roots are deep in the human mind.
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Schools were designed to produce professors and factory workers who happily follow the step-by-step directions dictated to them and would never think to question authority. If you didn’t fit into one of these two shapes, you tuned out or dropped out except for the years you had an exceptional teacher who made learning a joy and encouraged your creativity.
Digital media has the potential to help more teachers become exceptional.When guiding students through the learning process of planning, exploration, and expression, employing digital media levels the playing field and gives all students tools to create. Handwriting is no longer a barrier. Word processing spelling and grammar checks improve writing quality as does the limitless ability to edit ideas. Image editing gives students the ability to capture and share their unique visions that might otherwise be trapped permanently in their heads. Audio communicates tone, pitch, pauses, and rhythm in a way text alone cannot. Finally, video combines the best of images and audio and then adds body language and motion. By integrating digital media into learning, teachers support the highest order thinking skill– creating.
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