There are many variations of this video now available on the web, but I like how this one has been put together.
This video has been shown around at our school system to stimulate conversation about how we has a school district have the responsibility to help prepare students for the future and how we have to find better ways of preparing.
The video will quickly show that even within our own lifetime change is happening at an extremely rapid pace, and things that our parents had to deal with are different then the things we have too. For me this bring to light the question How are our children and grandchildren going to cope and deal with the upcoming changes? and How are we as their guides/teachers and leaders going to help them?
I work for a school board, not as a teacher but as an administrator in our computer department, and over the last couple years there has been an increasing push in the literacy and numeracy areas of academics. I have noticed a dwindling in arts, music, and physical education in our elementary schools, but on the other hand there has been a rise on the more creative side of education in our secondary schools. They have been offering guitar class as an option to “band”, the drama classes have become increasingly more popular as well. The biggest change that I have noticed is in the computer education.
When I was in high school, computer class meant one of 2 things, either computer programming or office administration. I am seeing less of the programming courses and more of the creative side of things, like digital art, photography, and video editing.
I believe that as our students on a whole are bored with school and by offering them more “creative/expressive” type of courses it allows them to explore who they really are. Recently I was asked to speak at a career day at one of our secondary schools and I recommended to the students that now is the time for them to enroll in courses that they normally wouldn’t enroll in. Try and art class, take a drama class, volunteer at things you may have never thought of. All of these things help with expanding your sense of you.
Anyway, enough of my rant . Ken is a great speaker and this was a good video for anyone that works in the education field to watch.
. Ken is a great speaker and this was a good video for anyone that works in the education field to watch.