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I started off watching this TED video, "Hackschooling makes me happy," by a 13 year old named Logan LaPlante who gave a great insight on how schools could be redefined. He describes "hacking" in a positive notion: where "hackers are innovators... [who] challenge and change the systems... to make them better... hacker mindset could change the world". He explains how education should focus on teaching students how to be happy and healthy, and not just how to finish school, get a job, then be happy. He references Dr. Roger Walsh's "Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLCs)," as well as Sir Ken Robinson as two professionals who view education lacking to accommodate the changes of our world.
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Teaching creativity should be as important as teaching literacy, and how to do so is realizing there are no right or wrong answers and chances are taken. Robinson further depicts how education is currently training students to become professors, to be academically trained in the "head" and not in the body. He further argues that intelligence should instead be recognized for its diverse, dynamic, and distinct qualities and therefore we need to "adopt a new concept of human ecology..." and educate our children's "whole being" for them to be able to learn completely.
From these two videos, I feel extremely encouraged knowing how there is some evidence and support to endorse the change from a traditional education system to one of creativity and innovation. Hopefully, more will see the importance of this soon enough so that we won't lose anymore generations to a world we are unprepared for and one we will never see.
References
TED Talks. (2007, January 6). Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY
TEDx Talks. (2013, February 12). Hackschooling makes me happy | Logan LaPlante | TEDxUniversityofNevada. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h11u3vtcpaY&list=PLbRLdW37G3oMquOaC-HeUIt6CWk-FzaGp&index=1