Blogg 2

So this post is over the Sir Ken's video.  This is not the first time I have seen this video, nor do i suspect it will be the last.  I guess the most popular quote from the video which I see my other groupmates making is that "creativity is as important as literacy".  I am going to go ahead and jump on the band wagon and say yes it most certianly is.  When you think about it logically, creativity is the core of individuality.  When you stifle the creativity, in my opinion you are stifling the individual.  So often we see that students are becoming nothing more than "future Jeopardy contestants", meaning that we are doing nothing to creatively inspire them to peice together the significance of larger events.  We as educators are just giving them a hand full of facts that mean nothing other than the answer to simple trivia questions.  If we tap into each childs creativity then we ensure maximum retention and maximun learning.  We are educators after all isn't learning the name of the game?  If we just want kids to be mindless clones of one another (in the knowledge since) then we simply change nothing.  However, if  we make the effort and tap into that hidden creativity then we see a much more dramtic result in education.  Suddenly it becomes a bold, new, and dynamic environment that kid want to be and want to succeed in.