Friday, January 28, 2011

Education must not ignore children's creativity

From The Manawatu Standard:

More than 1200 teachers flooded Palmerston North for the Inspired Impact conference this week. The main attraction, Sir Ken Robinson, stressed the importance of developing children's creativity during a live-streamed talk from the United States.

Ignoring children's creativity could have devastating consequences on a world undergoing a technological revolution, an international expert in education warns....

Now, I happen to agree with this article, but it has some reasons I had not thought of. Go read more here.

Tom

1 comment:

Neezes said...

Great stuff! I have just been reading (and blogging about) one of his books and it's fantastic. Would love to hear more.
Cheers,
Neezes
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