Pedagogy & Creativity

Good morning all, 

I am a student at Laguardia and I am writing this blog because it's main ideas are education and the improvements that can be made to better educate students.

In the first video, What is Pedagogy?, a very short one. Pedagogy (a Greek root word) is defined as the art of teaching children. The speaker, Dr. Sonwalker Nish gives focus on the teachers and how they view pedagogy as an educator. He also states that they need to consider how they teach a lesson plan that can make a positive impact as well as it making it stick and process in the students being taught.

In the second video, Ted Talks: Sir Ken Robinson Says Schools kill Creativity, Robinson focuses on three main ideas: evidence of human creativity, the fact that we have no idea of our future and education. He feels that every human is born creative but at some point it is either taken away or lost. "Everyone is born creative, we don't grow into it. We grow out of it or we are educated out of it." This is important because creativity is an essential part of being able to find yourself as a person and what you are capable of. Now people or even children are "frightened to be wrong" and this can hold an individual back from things that they would like to do. They don't allow themselves to take risk because of this fear and it can keep anyone from becoming a greater person.

Robinson also states that everywhere in the world the education system is about the same. They don't allow arts to be a main priority, instead teach the subjects that they think are most important for example they are placed in this order -Math, Science, Language then Arts. Education in the 19th century is in part to blame for that because the focus was to teach industrialism. The main idea was to show people how to work and only that. He also defines intelligence in three different ways -Diversity which is the different intelligences, Dynamic which is interactive and Distinct which is to discover ones talents as well as recognizing others.