Changing Education Paradigm
 

Interesting watch.

Yah

I didn't know there were that many kids affected with ADHD.
But he does make some very valid points.

We may have to adjust our current education system to fit our ever changing world. Our children really are exposed to a lot these days.

When I was in school I never really liked the teachers who told me to sit down, do my work, and keep quiet; my god did that ever make school shit ass boring. I always admired the teachers who taught me to think outside the box; use abstract thinking and to really question things.

It's amazing that 98% of the children taking the divergent test were in kindergarten. It just goes to show how much wasted potential there is for children who are denied education in much poorer countries.

at first i thought RS made this video with that bad animation in the beginning when the hand was write "RS"

The current education system is outdated for the 21st century. A friend of mine told me that a girl in highschool was reading a book about sucess principle and a high school teacher pulled her aside and got mad at her telling her that she shouldnt be reading that. instead the teacher said she should be reading fiction and novels.

the artist who drew on the whiteboard is awesome

deals with education too;

i'm surprise they mention about video game, iphone in the first video but they didn't mention facebook...that's the real killer

Paradigm Shift!

As a parent of an ultra creative kid who's also diagnosed with ADHD, I have had to deal with a lot of this first hand and often said, if I could win the lotto and home school my kid, I would in a heart beat because I'm 100% certain that in an environment tailored to her she would thrive (as would many of her friends). In fact I often tell her pediatrician that I find it frusterating to no end that it is the things that in my mind make her an awesome and ideal kid, that the school objects the most stringently to.

The education system though, as it stands, doesn't care. And I don't blame the teachers themselves, they're stuck working in the factory too, but the school doesn't care that my kid has been able to draw in perfect proportion since she was 5, nor do they care that she has a near perfect memory for music. They don't appreciate the implications that this has for what she's capable of mathmatically. They care that she fidgets in class, that she has trouble reading and spelling.

I point out to them that if they'd let her listen to her ipod quietly in one ear she'd be able to sit still in her class for hours and hours on end and pay attention to the lesson at hand (and remember it) because the music would keep the restless creative part of her brain quite happily occupied and also help her form memories in the way she does best. But that doesn't matter, because if she does it everyone else will want to (and god help us should we start playing music for all the class to listen to!). So instead she's not allowed to exercise what her mind is best at or in the way she needs to, and they scold her when she's doodling while they're lecturing. :(

It's worse though for the boys, who learn better when they're moving, but are stuck in little desks and apparently expected to exorcise all their anxious energy in the pitiful 2 gym classes they have a week and on the all of 20 minutes of free time they get for lunch these days then get classified as 'problems' when they can't sit still for the other 7 hours a day when if they could only stand up and walk around the room while listening to a lecture, could soak up three or four times as much as they do.

I took 2 years of cognitive psychology and I know these things? How is it that simple, VERY simple principles haven't found their way into our schools yet? Because apparently it was good enough for us, so now our kids have to suck it up too.

TheNewGirl:

You should move to Fort Langley and enroll your child in the Langley Fine Arts School. It's a fantastic school that sounds like it would be right up your kid's alley. Although, I understand it's not easy to just get up and move to a different municipality. It's also quite difficult to get into LFAS, even if you're in the catchment area.

OP:

Great video. I've been wondering these very things for a long time now.

I first saw this on RS, but it was a long time ago.

Being ADD myself, I remember how I struggled in school. Just got by in the early years, but then something happened in secondary school. All it took were a couple of great teachers who inspired me. One was a physics teacher, Mr. Parmar and the other, Mr. Madhosingh.

Toyota > Oh I've looked into it! And as you said, living in the catchment doesn't mean you'll get in. I've even looked into moving back east where there are many, many more arts oriented middle and high schools as well (and I do have a lot of family) but they're so high in demand it's the same situation.

I supplement her school with a lot of art and music classes outside of school thanks to some very wonderful art programs at places like Place des Arts and Leigh Square, and I really have to commend Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam for pouring as much money as they do into making sure there's places that kids like mine can take courses at a cost that while still expensive, is doable for an average family.

a university should implement this guys idea in a controlled setting and measure the results.

The standardized system works to train workers that fit industrialized society.

Get on the assembly line bitches!