Sir Ken and Gentle Musings

Sir Ken Robinson has influenced my thinking for the past few days. It all started when I was forwarded a TedTalk that Sir Ken had created several years ago, but was reintroduced to me thru twitter. The Talk is based on the irony of educational accountability and three principles that guide education. The three principles consist of differentiation, inquiry, and creation. Today I listened to Sir Ken's radio show thru the powers on the internet (truly the first time to ever listen to NPR). I tweeted that the pressure to combine the students need to create and the dubious demand of state accountability was difficult to say the least. So how do you balance this need. It seems to reason that its not that difficult. I would like to think that if students were truly engaged in higher level Blooms like creating, passing a standardized exam would not be such a risk.