What powerful messages that was sent through these videos. Each video brought a slightly different slant or viewpoint to the topic, yet all three had a common theme. We need to see the power of creativity in individuals and allow that creativity to shape the learning and future of our students. Two quotes really hit home for me. The first was from the Digital Students in Analog Schools: “Teachers are teaching today using yesterdays tools”. The second was from the video No Future Left Behind: “You can’t create my future with your tools of yesterday. Let the future in, let us create, discover, explore, discover and share”. Another point I thought was worth capturing was the comment from Sir Ken Robinson, “Creativity should be viewed as important as literacy is in schools today”.
We as educators need to get out and see the real world, experience what is being expected of students entering the work force today and be in touch of what is coming in the future. Without knowing this, we will continue to value only high academic scores as means of intelligence, rather than seeing intelligence as diverse, dynamic, and distinct. As we hear in the news every day, industrial or rote jobs are easy to outsource. It is the creative . . . thinking outside of the box that is our future. So, what are we doing in schools to let the future in, to let students create, share, explore, and to try again? As educators, the tools we are learning in this course will allow us to begin to meet the students where they are at and allow them to shape their own future, not limiting them by ours.
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