Thursday, January 31, 2013

Listening Practice #5 (due Tuesday)




Listen to this talk on education and creativity. Then, for your comment, tell us what the main idea is and share your opinions about what he says.

18 comments:

  1. The speaker focused on two main idea:how the steriotype in education feild effect negatively on the students creativety and how does the public education rules eliminate the chanse of acknowledging and adapting new and different abilities in the students. Pearsonally, I completlly agree with him and I liked the examples that he came out with.

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    1. By the way,the English subtitles have helped me to understand his accent.

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    2. Maryam,
      For this one, you have to write what the main idea is and also share your opinions about what he says.

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  3. Two main ideas are considered in this speech : Education and Creativity. The speaker focuses about the way creativity influences education nowadays.He emphasizes the fact that in the past, creativity used to be a distraction.But now, with the revolution,creativity is as important as education and literacy.For our speaker, school should manage the fact that creativity can be someone's job and introduce classes like dance , drama ,painting or music in their programs rather than destroying the children's creativity.Also, we should know that the first stpe to be creative is not to be afraid of being wrong because it is by making mistakes that someone finally build original things.I totally agree with Ken robinson because these days , people are full of talents and it would being very deceiving if the society do not take advantage of it.Those people should be able to emerge in their life with their creativity.

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  4. The author has been talking about two points, which are the education and the creativity. He says that we should consider creativity as a part of education because usually what happens is that people get educated out of their creative capacities. At school for example, we find that some subjects are more important than some others and therefore, some people find themselves not able to work correctly because they don't have the same skills or talents.

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  5. after watching ,he said one opinon i totally agree:creativity is as importantant in education as literacy.

    that's right isn't it? now. our education especially chinese education is a typical wrong education. i can not change that, and the school is suppressing even destroying children's creativity. we have always learned that the past people are right, we always learn from old thing. even though we have our own opinion which differs from older people.

    future belong to the children, for example, if a company is able to monopolize a market for a long time in the future, and no people can defeat this monopolization, the future will be hopeless. because nobady have creativity to think about that defeat this company. which means,children who are growing up are delayed by education

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  6. The main point is about education and creativity and how they are working together. In addition, creativity now as important as literacy and should treat it with the same statement. In my opinion, he gave some funny and good examples to explain how to be creative even if you wrong, you may come up with original things. And, all people believe that.

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  7. My clue of this lecture is the elements of being creative is imagination, not afraid of being wrong. Educated adults are less imaginative than children sometimes, we know so many rules that we forget to create things full of our own imagination. We need to get everything out of our minds, leave them like white papers without words on it. And draw whatever we like to make life more creative. Secondly, we are human beings and we make mistakes. There is no need to be perfect! Do the best you can , although making new things may lead to a wrong end, so what? It does not matter!Do not let the afraid of being wrong weaken your ability to imagine and create. We have so many things to do as a student, dancing, singing, taking exercises. Do not let studying occupies our lives.

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  8. I heard this lecture.I totally agree with this person. this topic is very interesting.like lecture say:creativity is as importantant in education as literacy.chinese education system really have a big problem.If you want to be a successful student in china, you should give up everything: hoildays,date,parties,weekends,social activities.I have this experience,it's horrible.I still can forget it.

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  9. The big point of this discussion is : creativity is as important in education as literacy. I'm totally agree with Ken Robinson , because, school in our times treats children like learning machines, most of the time that children spent in school is learning methods or techniques to do things ( I'm not saying this is wrong) but they aren't paying attention to the child potential to create things. Is like they are removing the fun part of the children because is not necessary. Other thing that is important is the necessity of make mistakes, it's part of the natural learning curve, if children don't makes mistakes they could get frustrated or inhibited when something goes wrong.

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  10. The speaker is trying to talk about two points in the speech, which are the education and the creativity.Creativity is as important in education as literacy.We should treat it with the same status.We should prepare to be wrong,if not,we will never come up with anything original.For me,I absolutely agree with his point and I like the examples that he came out with,those are so interesting.

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  11. The main idea of this speach is creativity in education, and the needing of new ways in teaching or education to impuls the students' creavity, which infact the born with but the traditional methode of teacheing or learning killed it. In my opinion this topic somehow hard, the way to stimulat the creavity from person to person is differ and it is hard to make special class for every one. Moreover, sometimes requier a focuse in one thing. It can work but with the help of perants and the teacher; however, this is not easy.

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  12. what he said was ture, but fact is cruel. We have to think about our future. it is hard to feed yourself to some subjects. It doesn't mean it is not important. Just because we don't need so many. As what he said "we don't want to make mistake." the teachers, schools, even though our parents choosed the most mainstream way for us who seems so naive when we were younger. creativity is important. But it also abstract and there isn't a
    efficacious way to improve cretivity. Anyway, we have to move forward. The point is don't afraid make mistakes. Reform of the education is a big deal. but what we should do as student is simple, just follow our haerts.

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  13. The speaker wants to emphasize the importance of creativity in education today. To be more specific, we should stimulate the creativity of chilren and let them do or learn what they like instead of forcing them to learn as a machine. Sometimes, adults think that good children are the ones who always do the right things and comply with the advice of their parents or teachers. But we forgot that the fact that we all may make mistakes. Thus, let our children express their extraordinary capacities and mistakes will help them to be more mature.

    In Vietnam, we have to study a lot, focusing on subjects used for university examination such as maths, physics, chemistry and so on. Qualification is regarded as a ticket for a better future. We dont have time for arts, sports or outdoor activities. I think it is a pity because we dont have chance to find out about ourselves, think about what we like or dislike...

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  14. The main idea is about education and creativity. How these are conecting and the importance to include in the education system and more activities that can develop the creativity, because this is the process to create original ideas.
    Thus, the education system around the world has to adopt a new conception of human capacity and creativity.
    I am agree with this idea, i think that if we develop our creativity it is possible to create new ideas and learn easily.
    I like when Ken Robinson said: if you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original

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  15. There are two main ideas in this speaking: education and creativity. The speaker wants to give us the message that today creativity is as important in education as literacy. And I totally agree with him. According to Ken Robinson's talk, in traditional educational system, people always pay more attention to some top subjects such as mathematics and languages, and art is at the bottom. People think that learning music or art is the way of wasting time because their children will not be a musician or an artist in the future. They have to learn to earn a degree and then find a job as normal. In my country, when I was in high school long time ago, the educational system paid much attention to how to teach students to pass the exam or to get a degree than how to give them opportunity to explore their creative capability. There has been some positive changes but I think we need more talent people to take this initiative.

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  16. The two main ideas in this talk are :Education and creativity.He thinks that we should treat creativity the same way we treat education.Also I agree with him when he said '' you have to be prepared to be wrong ,so you can come up with something orginal .'' because u have to try work really hard to come up with something creative.

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