Ken Robinson says school kills creativity

Since mistakes are looked down on as adults, children slowly lose their creativity because they are no longer prepared to be wrong.  Public schools prepare students' to be professors and the education system is teaching only academics.  Creative people think they are not creative because they are told growing up "you will never make it as a musician", "you will never become a great painter" and it discourages children from putting their creativity on the table.  Often times adults hold back their ideas because they do not want to look or feel stupid.  Intelligience is distinct.  Everybody has their own talent that somebody else lacks.  Education should not only be about academics, but creativity as well.
I agree with what Ken says because children need to be pushed to be creative because everybody is intelligient in their own way.  Not everybody learns academics as well as others.  Perhaps the students' having a hard time learning academics excel in arts.  People need to be encouraged to do what makes them happy because anybody can do anything they set their mind's to.

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John Hunter's World Peice Game

1.  When John Hunter said he is "standing on the shoulders of many people", he meant that he is over all these children and he wants to guide them in a way to better their future and education.  If John was to stumble and mislead his students then it would cause the whole classroom to stumble and fall apart.

2.  John Hunter used a game because he wanted the students to learn using their whole bodies.  John is shooting more towards kin-esthetic learners.  He said that he never liked lecture-based learning and he wanted to make learning fun.  Hunter wanted to get his students fully engaged and challenge them to think in a way to add on to their current knowledge and form their own opinions.

3.  All of the students play different roles in the game.  A few of the roles include: weather goddess, prime minister of a specific country, somebody to sabotage the game (saboteur),  and a person who controls peace in the game.

4.  John Hunter's role is a friend.  He likes to sit back and observe the children and let them make their own choices.

5.  The students write condolence letters to families because in any war people will be lost and John Hunter is trying to make the game as real as possible.  It also give the opportunity to add writing in this game.

6.  John Hunter is a very passionate teacher.  He wants his students to learn independently so they can build on their current knowledge.  John is not the type of teacher to stand in the front of the classroom and lecture, but a teacher that wants his children to learn more on their selves and through their own experiences.

7.  I would feel successful as a teacher to see that the students actually understood what they was being taught.  The students are showing content understanding by performing tasks in the game and carrying on the activities and taking care of their own countries.



Ted - John Hunter

Technology tip & software I want to learn more about

Technology tips:

• If you have a file to large to send by email then go transferbigfiles.com.  You can send large files for no charge. (Up to 2 Gigs)
• Ctrl+F finds words on the page.
• Ctrl+S saves your document
• Ctrl+V pastes
• Ctrl+C copies
• Ctrl+Z undoes
• Ctrl+A selects all
• Ctrl+ALT+delete is a task manager
• Ctrl+2 double spaces (only works in office program)
• Alt+Tab switches between open programs
• Ctrl+B bolds
• Change passwords on a regular basis and don't have all the passwords the same (letters, numbers, capital leter, and special character).
• Ctrl+W closes tabs
• Ctrl+L left line
• Ctrl+R right align
• Ctrl+E centers
• Ctrl+1 single spaces
• Ctrl+P prints
• Ctrl+tab opens a new tab
• Hold down print screen takes a screen shot on Windows
• Ctrl+I italicizes

 

Software I want to learn more about: Antivirus Software

RainForest Animals Concept Map

Rainforest Animals

I.       Mammals

Mammals are warm-blooded, have a vertebrae and a four-chambered heart.  They also have hair, in which covers the skin.  Also, all mothers produce milk for nourishing their young; milk is produced by mammary glands.  Mammals range from an inch and a half (bumble bee bat) to 108 feet (blue whale).

A.    Bengal Tiger

B.    Gorilla

II.     Reptiles

All reptiles are cold-blooded and lay eggs.  They are covered in leathery, like skin, such as, horny plates or scales.  Reptiles are able to breathe by means of lungs.  This group of animals transport by slivering, crawling, and creeping.

A.    Boa Constrictor

B.    Anaconda

III.    Amphibians

Amphibians are cold-blooded animals that have smooth skin.  They hatch an aquatic larva to produce their young.  When amphibians hatch, they transform and have gills.  After full development, amphibians are capable of living on land or water and have both gills and lungs.

A.    Poison dart Frog

B.    Red-eyed tree Frog

IV.    Arthropods

Arthropods can be found in every environment; land, trees, water, and the ground.  Arthropods have an exoskeleton and segmented bodies, as well as jointed appendages.  Arthropods happen to be the largest animal group.  This group consists of: insects, arachnids, and crustaceans.  All arthropods have six or more legs.

A.    Blue Morpho Butterfly

B.    Leafcutter Ant

V.     Birds

Birds are bipedal, meaning they have two feet.  All birds are warm-blooded and lay eggs.  All birds have feathers, as well as wings to help them fly.  Birds can range from 2 inches to 9 feet tall.

A.    Parrot

B.    Toucan

1.    This bird lives in holes of hollow trees.

2.  Toucans are located in Central and South America in
tropical and sub-tropical rainforests.

***Activities***
- Color sheets to remember the colors of the animals
- Make an ant farm
- Guess the Rainforest animal sound
- Bingo
- Create paper plate animals