After watching Ken Robinson's TED Talk about education, express your thoughts on how his views do/do not relate to the concept of Genius Hour. What about Ken Robinson's views do you agree/disagree with? Also, consider HOW Ken Robinson presented his TED Talk. What can you learn from his delivery, organization, and content to help you present your OWN TED Talk? From what was expressed on the video, I believe that Ken Robinson’s TED Talk about education relates to Genius Hour strongly. He feels children should stop be taught in the traditional sense of education and be able to learn differently. This is just like Genius Hour where the students have a chance to learn on their own without the teacher having a curriculum. Also, Robinson feels that students will flourish because of their natural curiosity and diversity which Genius Hour is all about.
Ken Robinson had many different views on how school systems should be run and how students should learn. With every point he made, I agree with every single one of his views. I agree with the fact that the schools should have the power to set the standards that they need to learn instead of legislative deciding what is best. I also agree with schools should not have their sole focus on standardized testing, but instead have it on having students learn. Even before he began the main part of his talk, Ken Robinson engaged his readers by making a few jokes. Also, all throughout his talk he would slip in a few jokes here and there to continually grab listeners attention and to help illustrate his points. The way he organized and presented his content was in a way that made many people want to hear and learn about. Everything he did will help me when I must present my own TED Talk. I can do this by organizing my thoughts in an order that causes people to want to listen to hear the next bit and engage my listeners more. Also, he helped me to come up with a way to make the content of my project into something anyone would want to hear about.
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Read the article "How Geniuses Think."Respond to the following: Describe the author's interpretation of Genius and how it differs from conventional definitions of Genius. What are the shared strategies of geniuses? How does your Genius Hour project encourage you to use some of these strategies?The author's interpretation of Genius differs from the conventional definitions of Genius by taking into account that you do not need to be intelligent to be a genius. Many individuals can be creative geniuses and minimal intelligence or vice versa. He thinks geniuses think productively instead of reproductively like most people would on solving problems. They think of how to solve problems differently and in a way that doesn't make them dwell in the past for the solution to the problem.
Some of the shared strategies of geniuses include them looking at a problem in many different ways. They would look at a problem and keep changing their viewpoints until they had a clear picture of how to solve the problem. Another strategy was for them to make their thoughts visible. Most do this by drawing out graphs and diagrams to show what they mean. Geniuses also produce and make novel combinations. The geniuses would produce large quantities of their works quickly, and they would combine many ideas to come up with their own ideas. By forcing relationships, geniuses show this strategy that no one else had looked at to make their ideas work. Thinking in opposites is another strategy geniuses share by being able to think of something in two completely different ways. Being able to think metaphorically is another gift geniuses have to change the way of thinking about two unlike things. Finally, geniuses always prepare themselves for chance. They do not quit after they had first failed in an experiment, and they actively seek an accidental discovery. My Genius Hour project encourages me to use some of these reading strategies by being creative when I have to write each story. I have to be able to change my mindset of how I also thought of the war from the perspective of a U.S. citizen in the future to many different nationalities who were experiencing the war as it happened. Also, I have to be able to produce a lot of stories in a short amount of time just as the past geniuses had to accomplish. I will also have to actively convey the importance of learning on this subject and possibly force together ideas that originally were not seen before. |
AuthorMy name is Heather Harris and I am a senior at Kingsford High School. Archives
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