After listening and watching the Youtube Ken Robinson's YouTube video stating that schools are killing creativity by focusing on core classes, I do not agree. I think there is plenty of areas of creativity in schools especially in content areas where teachers are willing to experiment with technology. In my school, our history department is currently working on a long term project with the entire sophmore class that involves World History. Part of that project requires every student to create a movie based on the historical content that they selected. The movies are then posted on SchoolTube.com and the culmination is a school wise movie contest where the movies are judged on criteria such as content, technology skills, and creativity.
I think there are plenty of opportunities to use technology as a creative medium, but it depends on whether the educators are willing to change what they have done in the past to incorporate this type of learning.
Sir Ken Robinson Video: Do Schools Kill Creativity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY
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