"If you're not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original."
What a great quote by Sir Ken Robinson.
Confession: Sometimes, I get caught up watching TED Talks. They're just so engaging and each presenter has something unique to say. Topics are often very different but the commonality is found in the discussion of innovation, education, technology, and creativity. In this talk, Sir Ken Robinson talks about the creativity of young children and how our educational system counteracts it (i.e. kills it) in favor of more important subject matter (math and science). He offers three useful points when describing intelligence:
1. Intelligence is diverse. We think visually, in sound, and kinesthetically; we think in abstract, we think through movement.
2. Intelligence is dynamic. The brain is interactive. Creativity often comes about through different disciplinary ways of seeing things.
3. Intelligence is distinct. How did you discover your talent?
How can we cultivate creativity in our teaching?
