Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the Learning Revolution! TED 2010. Bumped into at eLearning blog Dont Waste Your Time.
Two excerpts:
“Education, in a way, dislocates very many people from their natural talents. Human resources are like natural resources, they are often buried deep, you have to go looking for them, not just laying around the surface, you have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.”
“I think we have to change metaphors, we have to go from an essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people, we move to model based on principles of agriculture, we have to recognize human flourishing is not a mechanical process it is an organic process and you cannot predict the outcome of human development all you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will flourish.”
Littleton, CO has used a more "organic" process in economic development -- actually referred to as economic gardening. http://www.littletongov.org/bia/economicgardening/
ReplyDeleteOne of the key ideas I have learned about innovation is the ability to "steal" ideas from one sector and apply them elsewhere. Take a look at the economic gardening approach and think about how some of these ideas might be applied to education.