Re: Unlearn Part 2 from Educating the Dragon

I am always looking for new inspiring youtube clips try watching this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USn5t5nQWU8&feature=player_embedded

Thanks to the Educating the Dragon blog for posting this youtube video which was apparently shared with the blogger originally from Chris Betcher, although I couldn't find the post on the Betchaboy blog it was still a great read.  In my current role where I am a school ICT Lead Teacher I spend a lot of time thinking about how best to explain my thinking to others and whether I am, in fact, leading them in the right direction with my ideas and suggestions!  I find it helpful to watch inspiring videos to help articulate my thoughts and offer myself a new perspective that I can share with colleagues.  I think you need to have a good understanding of something yourself before teaching others and sometimes a picture or, even better, a video clip explains it perfectly.

http://www.teachers.tv/

Fantastic site for educators http://www.teachers.tv/

If you are not yet aware of Teachers TV online then I highly recommend this as a place where you can find information for personal professional development, resources for using in your classroom and an online community where you can seek answers and offers solutions to questions posed by other educators.

I have created a voicethread to explain why the site appeals to me:

Webinar today with Sir Ken Robinson

Belinda and I participated in a webinar today organised through www.ted.com/ with Sir Ken Robinson who is a creativity expert who advocates the need for a shift in education. I vaguely remembered watching his talk about how schools kill creativity when I first attended L@S in 2008. It was a really interesting experience listening to him speaking today about his new book The Element and then watching people putting their hand up digitally to ask him questions or chatting with the other people who were participating in the session. There were is excess of 500 people logged on. In the book he explores the importance of following your passions in life to achieve success. I have just watched the clip from 2006 again to refresh my memory and agree with the following quote: 'If you're not prepared to be wrong you'll never be original' (Ken Robinson) and many children become afraid to be wrong when actually we learn really well from our mistakes. 'All children are born artists but the problem is to remain an artist as we grow up' (Picasso) and Ken Robinson said he passionately believed creativity is educated out of people as they get older.