The Importance Of Computer Technology In Education

Are we underestimating the importance of creativity? Many times children are not encouraged at home to be creative, either because their parents restrict their ideas, fill their decisions with pessimism, or simply do not pay attention to this matter. However, creativity is a skill that makes the human being flexible and resourceful as well as helping them see problems differently and identify solutions more easily. Many times education will directly contradict creativity. It destroys the innovation of ideas, and stifles the imagination, while claiming it is “teaching.” Sometimes entering a classroom becomes the closest thing to entering a time machine since our teaching methods differ very little from those of ancient Rome over 2000 years ago. In Ted Talk “How Schools Kills Creativity” by Ken Robinson and the article “Let Teenagers Try Adulthood” by Leon Botstein, two different opinions about the current educational system are presented. While Robinson believes that the schooling system should work to promote creativity, Botstein says that the concept of a high and middle school is useless and should be abolished. However they both agree on reform. As a parent, I have always been concerned about my daughters’ education, and have always believed, like Robinson and Botstein, that our educational system needs a change.

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures rather than undermines creativity. I fully agree with everything Sir Ken Robinson discusses in his speech. The importance of creativity, originality, and the arts have been deemed nonessential in the public school system. The emphasis placed on math, the sciences, and test scores have stifled many children from discovering and flourishing at their talents. If children are not exposed to the arts and the ingenuity needed to think for themselves how will they have the ability to produce an original story, even if they are taught writing and grammar.

Children are no longer encouraged to be creative in the test prep environment. Instead, they are being taught to perform well on standardized tests and are labeled as unintelligent if they don’t. Young children are born with creativity and we see that when they are playing and pretending. According to Sir Ken Robinson, in Slon’s (2013) article, “by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity” to be creative. The fundamentals of creation and experimentation are not part of the standardized testing mechanism.

In his speech, "Do Schools Kill Creativity?", Ken Robinson (Robinson, 2006) discusses individual's creativity and the role of education in this field. Robinson argues that the major aim of teaching in school is to prepare pupils for their careers. He continues to suggest that "we are running education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can do". (Robinson, 2006, p.7). He also adds that "we are educating people out of their creative capacities". His speech raises questions: "what is creativity?", "do schools kill creativity?" and can creativity be learned?

Creativity is equally as important as literacy, and we need to start treating it that way in schools around the world. According to Ken Robinson’s claim in his, “How Schools Kill Creativity” speech, he believes this to be exceptionally true. All children are creative and talented, however, we have grown up in a world where we believe that it’s wrong to exemplify our creativity. Robinson uses both, pathos, and ethos to help make his claim. He arises emotion in you; he causes you to really think, to trust him, and to question ultimately, how things are being done in the educational system. We as a world have become so consumed with the idea of putting each child into a category of what they’re going to be successful in, regardless of their creativity or passions. You’re either good at math, science, or English; everything is based on your academic ability. What happens then to the people who aren’t academically smart, but are more creative? They are then made to feel that what they have to offer the world simply isn’t good enough, but the truth is, it is good enough. Over time however, we are taught out of our creativity. Schools around the world kill creativity by instilling a sense of fear in the child that what they are doing, and how they feel is wrong, this ultimately discourages them, and they fall victim to the industrialized educational system that we have present day. Robinson believes now more than

In “Do School’s Kill Creativity?” published on Ted.com on February 2016, speaker Ken Robinson questions the effectiveness of our education system to facilitate creativity. To support his position, first, Robinson explains how creative and talented every child is, and that the education system is “educating people out of that creativity”. Next, he explains how the world’s education systems place all the emphasis on subjects deemed as useful for employment and academic abilities; consequently, talented, creative individuals believe they are not due to the schools not valuing or stigmatizing their talents. Finally, he speaks of intelligence, how diverse, dynamic, and distinct it is. Robinson ends with a statement that educators need to recognize

Jenny Arledge, a first grade teacher in Valparaiso, Indiana states, “Technology can become the ‘wings’ that will allow the educational world to fly farther and faster than ever before—if we will allow it.” In today’s society, technology is all around us and ever changing, especially in schools. Technology can help give students a better education by allowing more opportunities for learning. Some people claim that technology is a distraction from learning and that it is more negative than beneficial, but this is not true because technology helps students learn more than they would ever be able to. Without technology students would not have the opportunity to learn to their potential. Although technology has its drawbacks, schools should consider how technology helps schools change in preparation for the future, allows students to retain new information, and increases interaction and communication.

In “Do School’s Kill Creativity?” published on Ted.com on February 2016, speaker Ken Robinson questions the effectiveness of our education system to facilitate creativity. To support his position, first, Robinson explains how creative and talented every child is, and that the education system is “educating people out of that creativity”. Next, he explains how the world’s education systems place all the emphasis on subjects deemed as useful for employment and academic abilities; consequently, talented, and creative individuals believe they are not due to the schools not valuing or stigmatizing their talents. Finally, he speaks of intelligence, how diverse, dynamic, and distinct it is. Robinson ends with a statement that educators need to recognize children’s

In “Do Schools Kills Creativity?” presented in TEDx, Ken Robisnon discussed how creativity has the status as education. First, Robinson starts by stating that he has an interest in education. Next, he states that children are not afraid of being wrong and they also take chances. Finally, he stats that creative capacities needs to be seen for the richness that they are and the children for the hope that they are. Robinson use of a humorous tone in his opinion regarding creativity in school helped him get his point across to his audience .

Ken Robinson was an effective speaker and made some really good points on how kids lose their creativity over time as their education continues. He talks about how to be original you have to be human and make mistakes, but schools are now engraving into the children’s head that mistakes are the worst things you could do. As stated in 5:45 of the video by ken, “If you don’t prepare to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original”. Being original is the key to creative but not a single person can make their dreams come true without making mistakes and education prevents kids from even trying to make mistakes.

Age, accessibility to computers is affected by age as people at different ages need different requirements for example elderly people have trouble seeing the screen so a magnifier is used to make the words easier to read for them. There is also software they can get onto the computer that makes the computer simpler because elderly people haven’t grown up with computers it is a new thing for them to understand so there is software like Eldy, which makes the interface simpler by only displaying six buttons for email, Internet, chat, video conferencing, documents, pictures, Skype and an option to change the buttons to whatever you want. I believe that nearly everyone at any age is able to use a computer but some older people just choose not to embrace it.

Many people believe that education and creativity go together. The smarter you are, the more creative you are, but this is not the case at all. The education system is actually undermining creativity. Sir Kenneth Robinson is a british author and the director of the Arts in Schools Project. He has won various achievements in his career including the LEGO prize for international achievement in education. Ken Robinson did an amazing speech which turned out to be the most popular speech on Ted Talk to this day. He had this amazing speech in February of 2006. He starts his speech out by saying, “. . . children starting school this year will be retiring in 2065. Nobody has a clue, despite all the expertise that’s been on parade for the past four days, what the world will look like in five years’ time. And yet we’re meant to be educating them for it” (1). Ken Robinson believes that creativity nowadays is just as important as literacy in school, and we need to treat them with the same status through the education system. He starts talking about a story of young kids, and it sets up one of the best quotes I have ever heard. He says, “Kids are not afraid of being wrong. Being wrong is not being creative, but, if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original” (2).

Imagine a world where students were able to freely express themselves, or a world where students could be who they want to be and make a place for themselves as thriving, successful individuals. Creativity is becoming less and less evident in the public school system and it is not receiving the attention it deserves. Not only are students taught that mistakes are the worst thing they can make, but as soon as children start school they are being shaped to fit into a mold of what teachers think make perfect students, and this causes creativity to be shut down at an early age. Although schooling gives students a number of opportunities to learn, grow, and expand their minds, school does not promote creativity or let students' creative sides flourish.

Computers have changed the way we work, be it any profession. Therefore, it is only but natural the role of computers ineducation has been given a lot of prominence in the recent years. Computers play a vital role in every field. They aid industrial processes; they find applications in medicine; they are the heart of the software industry; they play a vital role in education. Theuses of computers in education are manifold. Here, we shall discuss the important facets of the role of computers in education.

Sir Ken Robinson in his speech presented his point of what we need for education “My contention is that creativity is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.” We are currently not valued creativity: “And my contention is all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.” He stated that children all have imagination. However, in our current education systems, people have grown up too afraid of being wrong because mistakes are stigmatized as if it is the worst thing you could do. Schools and parents don’t want their children to be what they want, instead, they must do something adults think is important: “Don’t do music, you’re not going to be a musician; don’t do art, you won’t be an artist”. And that has brutally killed creativity in our children. Machineries that give abundance have made degrees worthless. We don’t need as much human resources to keep track of records and calculation as we do in the past, computers is now faster and more reliable. What is important now is to preserve a child’s inborn ability that can make a difference in the world’s changing process, and to do what