Additional Assignment numb. 3

I think the most important thing Sir Robinson says is the fact that our whole school process and way of thinking must be changed for the good of our children. The way it is now suppresses the child's ability to divergent thinking and doesn't foster the collaboration of group thinking. Also public schools kill the ability for children to think on their own about subjects. Because of this children are therefore pushed to think along the lines of what society wants them to think. The only thing I could think of that will not change any time soon will be the way the schools are run. Mr. Robinson says that our schools are modeled after the Industrial Revolution era and he is right. It will take major time and money to overhaul every school and school district in the nation right now and honestly we just do not have the money. EXP.. (When teachers have to buy their own tests, books, and pencils we have major problems.)

Even for us who are in college the same philosophy still applies...grades, grade levels, and assembly line degrees. College's can say they are different, but they are set up the same way and will also have to change. In my own college experiences it is the same every class I take. EXP. (Lectures, Tests, and Lectures.) This makes it very hard to really explore creativity and other avenues of learning when one is stuck in the same repeating pattern of time. This class of EDM310 is the only class that I have seen that allows us to foster our own ideas, focuses us on creativity, and allows group collaboration to a very big degree of freedom. This is what needs to be done in ALL schools. The question is WHEN will this happen 10 years, 30 years, 100 years, or 500 years. For some reason schools in the United States are the last thing to upgrade and I ask why is that?

I would begin to address the issues that Sir Robinson brings up by spending more money on our children and college students and less on big business, Congress, and Wall Street brokers. Between these three that is Millions of Dollars that could go back into our schools and help begin the necessary upgrades that the schools most desperately need. Only when the schools are liked upon the games systems, computers, and I phones that children in today's world play with, will learning begin for our children. Then there will be hardly any need for medicating our children like we see today. If I was to do a video like Sir Robinson I would love to be the idea generator. This is because I love to think of things that go against the grain. I always think out of the box no matter what PEOPLE tell me to do, and I enjoy every minute of it. This is what our children need to be doing. I think if this was done we would be delighted with the results that we would see.