I found Sir Ken's RSAnimate animation to be so creative and informative to watch. I thought his insights on students today thinking that just because they go to school and earn a degree doesn't mean they will get a job in the future, which is very different thinking from the way I was brought up. You earn a degree you get a good job. When he was talking about kids who are being diagnosed with ADHD and being medicated is the way to go, we don't want to put our kids to sleep we want to wake them up. This reminded me of a conversation I had with my sister recently.
My sister told me about her friend's son who was told from school counsellors and his teacher that he would benefit from medication because he was having lots of behavioral issues at school. They told her that the medication would help his ADHD, which he does not have. She switched schools for her son to a school that was more academically challenging and smaller in class size, he has never had an incident or behavioral issues at his new school. I just think this is so crazy that their first thought to fix his behavioral issues was to medicate him.
This made me think of Sir Ken's thoughts on divergent thinkers and the study that was done on students in kindergarten and then years later. I love the idea of divergent thinking that there is more than one way to get to a solution and being creative in our thinking results in many ideas to solving problems. This video really opened up my eyes to a variety of topics that will be useful in my own classroom and help me to teach the kids to be divergent thinkers and by letting them explore the many way to come up with solutions.
My sister told me about her friend's son who was told from school counsellors and his teacher that he would benefit from medication because he was having lots of behavioral issues at school. They told her that the medication would help his ADHD, which he does not have. She switched schools for her son to a school that was more academically challenging and smaller in class size, he has never had an incident or behavioral issues at his new school. I just think this is so crazy that their first thought to fix his behavioral issues was to medicate him.
This made me think of Sir Ken's thoughts on divergent thinkers and the study that was done on students in kindergarten and then years later. I love the idea of divergent thinking that there is more than one way to get to a solution and being creative in our thinking results in many ideas to solving problems. This video really opened up my eyes to a variety of topics that will be useful in my own classroom and help me to teach the kids to be divergent thinkers and by letting them explore the many way to come up with solutions.