Additional Assignment #3

Sir Ken Robinson: Educational Change in Paradigms

• I think the most important thing he talked about is that we are getting our children through education by anesthetizing them. More and more children who go to the doctor and say they have a hard time paying attention and can't sit still are given a prescription for Ritalin when ADHD probably isn't the problem causing the symptoms.
• I don't think there was anything that I disagreed with Sir Robinson on. I went back through the notes I took and referred back to the video, and I couldn't find anything he said that I disagreed with.
• The agreement and disagreement is that great learning happens in groups. Robinson says that collaboration is the stuff of growth, which I believe to be true ass well. I think that this is the only class out of four education classes I've taken where I have completed an assignment as a part of a group. 
• I think the best thing to do is get the word out there about these problems. These aren't things that should only be taught to future teachers. If more people were educated on these issues and spoke up about them, I think that more people holding elected positions might try harder to help with the government element of these problems, such as standardized testing.
• I really enjoyed the presentation. I thought that it was a very creative way to talk about the issues. 
• I would most like to play the part of the author. I like writing, and I believe that I do it well.