English 110 hones analytical habits of mind that are meant to be naturalized and used outside of the classroom. Therefore, the Blog Project takes the analysis you use throughout the ARP and Commonplace, and gives you the chance to practice applying it to the public writing you already interact with in everyday life. As you become accustomed to making this analytical move on your own, you will develop into a more aware, critically thinking citizen of the world.
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This is a video I came across on a friend's Facebook page. Who do you think the intended audience for the video is? What is the speakers main argument? How does the animation work in this video? Does it enhance certain points? Does it appeal to the audience in some way?
Maybe educators and parents are the main audiences of this video providede that educators need this kind of comments on current education to reform and improve education systems,and parents need this to think out better methods to foster their children. The main argument of Ken Robinson is the current education system is so standardized and industrialized that it may deteriorate some born-to-own capacities.Besides, to some degree, he recommend collaborative education or group study, which may be, in his opinion, more benefit to economic growth and the habitats they occupy. In this video, I do think that the animation really works a lot, since it can give a more straightforward sense to get to know what the speaker is talking about and is more attractive. Additionally, I might hold the viewpoint that being compelling must use data, graphs or tables to illustrate, but after watching this I just found that animation also has this property and far more vivid and closer to people.
The visuals of the hand writing, quoting, and drawing the speaker’s thoughts very effectively keep the viewer’s attention, and demonstrate very clearly what it is that the speaker is trying to portray. I loved hearing about unsureness relating to the current economic standing of the world, and how that unsureness is mirrored in the education system, because a degree is no longer absolutely essential to getting a good job. I have always thought that the worst factor of this economy, and the thing that holds us back from making our way out of recession, is not the lack of wealth, or class warfare, or a socio-political rift, but it is the instability and unsureness of the market that keeps investors from bringing the country back from the edge of depression. I found it very interesting that the speaker would relate this economic instability to the uneasiness of the education system, and I think he is on to something.
Also, I really like that the speaker discusses how enlightenment principles are what drive the current education system. I strongly agree, and I think these principles are extremely visible when starting a college education. This past week, I have noticed how many positions held by OSU staff members are Latin titles, referencing the Enlightened idea of using the Latin vernacular to educate in the classic texts. At the involvement fair, I even noticed a club titled Enlightened Women.
I had never thought about how our education system puts the most emphasis on our ages, and groups us accordingly–it had just never occurred to me that there was any other means of educating. I agree that we need go steer away from standardization (especially standardized testing), and I wonder if that would help to ease some of the uncertainty in the education system, as a one-size-fits-all system does not benefit every student that goes through the system.
As I watched this video and listened about education reforms, I dreaded the ten minutes ahead of me and worried how I would possibly pay attention with the cool illustrations before my eyes. However, I can honestly say I loved this video!! As I listened to the main points, the drawings faded into the background and served as a funny political cartoon type of thing and helped to iterate Ken Robinson’s point. It was when Robinson questioned that maybe all those diagnosed with ADHD are not really sufferers of this disorder that I was glued! I was raised in a family that had similar views, and I was always encouraged to think outside of the box.
Granted, education is a necessity; however, there are so many ways to go about this process and this point is made clear in this video. For example, he says the best ideas come from collaboration or at different times for different people. I agree Chenxi and James when they say his audience is aimed at parents, teachers, and basically anyone who is a part of the educating process in a person’s life. He also makes a great point with his example of the paper clip by proving more solutions are made by being creative. Though mostly all of his examples were good, my favorite by far was when he showed that 98% percent of the tested young children scored genius on the divergent test, but after years of education their scores diminished. This proves that being taught that only a certain few ways are the “right ways” is not always the best scenario.
Overall, I thought this video was excellent. He made good points without “stepping on any toes” so to say. There are many more points Robinson made in this video that really make a person wonder! However, I’ll leave those for the rest of you to think about! :-)
After watching this video again today, I really wonder whether the position of education goes down as KB says in current society a good grade will not garantee you a good job any more. Some of my classmates did not do very well in high school and went to work but not attended universities or college after graduating from a local high school. They now live a very good life and make a very considerable salary. But I am still in university and not able to share economic burden of my families.
So...I really wonder whether the position of education declines or not.
I really enjoyed this video. As someone who is a visual learner the animation was really helpful to my overall comprehension of the video. I think the audience is aimed at people who work in the educational system. However, I think this video can have a lot of significance for college and even high school students who are about to make their way out of the system and really know what works for them as far as learning. The ADHD part also hit home for me because I have a younger cousin who was diagnosed with it and it really made me think about how people have to change how they raise their children instead of just medicating them.
I believe this video is intended for any person interested in forward thinking and progression in society. Saying that it is only intended for people who are still involved in the education system sort of contradicts the message of the video.
The speaker stressed that education needs a serious reform because the current system is too standardized and specific. He stated that schooling now is “production line style” being almost mechanical. The speaker mentioned that decades ago, education used to be an escape from the brutalities of reality. Now, education does not have that same promise. Many young people are opting out because the system excludes what modern students value.
The animation in this video definitely adds to the message by displaying that everything is connected and all things must work together to make a functioning system. You cannot ignore the changing times of society to have a properly working school. The animation also helps to emphasize the most important points that the speaker is making.
Along with that, the use of drawing to go with the speech, nods to the fact that the speaker is recognizing the changing society and utilizing the social media of Youtube to draw in more people’s attention. It appeals to the audience because not only does it trigger auditory senses, but visual ones as well. This approach is common of modern day media and almost necessary.
I think this video does a good job at appealing to a wide audience and displaying its message in an effective way.
This video brought up several points and arguments that I honestly had never thought of before, but they all make a lot of sense and the speaker made some great points! I believe the main audience was intended for younger people that are about to be on their own in the world, the type of people that will be running the world soon. These are the people that are constantly on you tube, and would see the video! Plus the speaker wants to make a change in the education system, and this would require the leaders of the future in order to make this reform in the education system a reality. The speaker's main argument is that we cannot prepare for the future by doing what has worked in the past. The education system was set up during a completely different time period, the needs and ways of the world has greatly changed since that time. The main argument is that the education system needs to change along with the time.
The graphics and illustrations in this video are a key part in making it successful. It appeals to various types of viewers and stands out as something other then a boring informational youtube clip. The use of colors makes key points stand out too! The animation keeps the video lively, since it is twelve minutes long, it is likely that the viewer may lose interest if they were just listening to a man speak. The cartoons, occasional jokes and bursts of color help make this video one the viewer will pay attention to and understand the main argument once it is all done. I actually really enjoyed the video, it definitely opened my mind to topics and ideas I hadn't thought about before!
This video was directed towards educators, students and to all of society. The speaker made a great point about our current education system and how it's outdated. I loved the point of how we can't move forward into the future if we don't stop utilizing the ways of the past. I liked how he linked this issue to being one of the reasons we are in our current social and economic crisis and how we need to address it to avoid these types of crisis in the future. Having known people with ADHD I agree with the idea of helping ADHD students unlock their highest potential instead of medicating them from being a distraction. I also think the drawings helped make the speakers points clearer and easier to understand. The video was produced to effectively reach people with it's message.
The intended audiences of this video are probably educators, students and parents. The main argument the speaker is trying to make is that the methods of teaching should be changed since it is now a different time. The point that students are put through the system by age groups is weird especially interests me because I have never thought about it that way. We are taking the way schools work for granted and judging the ones that don't fit into this system as not successful. Although it is true that degrees no longer are guarantees for jobs, it is still considered a "normal" way to success to go through elementary school, high school, college, grad school, and then to get a high paying job. Any other way that leads to success is considered "incidental", and can't be repeated. But this is actually very wrong, so I strongly agree with the speaker that there really is a need to change our education paradigms.
When I started watching this video, I was a little worried about how I was suppose to listen through this 12-minute long speech about something as serious as education reformation. What made me really stick with it was the animation that went along with the speech. It vividly illustrated the speaker's ideas and summarized his main points. I think the only disadvantage about the animation is that the drawing was so good and clever and interesting that it actually made me stop listening to the speaker and start appreciating the talented designer and painter of all the drawing. I wonder if I had ADHD as well...
I think the main audience for this video would be the nation's educators and people controlling the educating system. The video was really interesting and the animation helped to reinforce the point that was being made and it managed to hold my attention.
According to Ken Robinson, the main problem in educating children are posed by the uncertainty economy and also we do not know how to educate them so that they do not lose their cultural heritage but at the same time find their place in an increasingly globalized world.
It is also true that students can not help being unfocused about school when there are so many objects to distract them. But it is impractical to ban television and other gadgets since so much can be learnt from them if we use them sensibly. There is no easy solution to this problem.
Making schools optional might help. If we are responsible for our own education we will take more interest in it. Also almost all we need to know can be found on the internet nowadays.
I believe that the presentation is marvelous. It plucks a lot of strings and reminds me of a lot of things I keep thinking about. It's highly creative and definitely out-of-the-box. The speaker is also very talented. This entire presentation is quite concise, but it still exhibits more original thought than most of us exhibit in our entire lifetime. It focuses on the building blocks of the system, that we mostly ignore, because we too have become a part of it.
It's about the flaws of the system, and also about how the system creates new flaws in order to cover up its previous flaws, instead of eliminating the problem from its roots. This was clearly explained through the example of the occurrence of ADHD.
I agree with the speaker when he says that our system is similar to a factory. We love tagging things, and creating associations between different things. The system is so self-profilerating, that no one is actually able to see which way it is headed. We're so busy being the best at something, that we can't even be the best of we are.
Anyway, enough lessons for today. Next week, tune in for more!
Oh, by the way, I'm from outside the US, so can anyone please explain to me what the speaker means when he says-"People start losing interest in Oklahoma."
This video prods at exactly what I have been thinking in my first two years of College education: What is the point of going to school. I understand that undergraduate school covers a host of basic topics that one would like to master before moving on in life, but in order to get many desired jobs graduate school is required. That means anywhere from 2-6 or more years of schooling after you already graduate from college. For most graduate schools there is a list of prerequisites needed and a specific undergrad major is not required. So in this way a Portuguese major knows just as much to succeed in Medical School as Biology major. Something about this just doesn’t make sense. The speech in this video explains that this education system and the k-12 education system was designed for a different age and that it must be reformed. It goes on to say that as children we are over stimulated by all the exciting things in our culture and then punished for not being able to pay attention. I agree with this and think that teaching methods may need to change in some way to engage and excite children. He also stresses that schools should personalize a student’s education by their ability levels. I think this is a great idea as well as encouraging divergent or creative thinking. This speech would not be nearly as interesting or as easy to understand without the animation. I think everyone could benefit from learning with this type of live and appealing visual aid. It seems to really tell the viewer exactly what the speaker wants to say. It would be hard for me to follow along without it. With this type of media and the argument the speaker makes it seems like he is targeting educators and those in charge of education systems.This video prods at exactly what I have been thinking in my first two years of College education: What is the point of going to school. I understand that undergraduate school covers a host of basic topics that one would like to master before moving on in life, but in order to get many desired jobs graduate school is required. That means anywhere from 2-6 or more years of schooling after you already graduate from college. For most graduate schools there is a list of prerequisites needed and a specific undergrad major is not required. So in this way a Portuguese major knows just as much to succeed in Medical School as Biology major. Something about this just doesn’t make sense. The speech in this video explains that this education system and the k-12 education system was designed for a different age and that it must be reformed. It goes on to say that as children we are over stimulated by all the exciting things in our culture and then punished for not being able to pay attention. I agree with this and think that teaching methods may need to change in some way to engage and excite children. He also stresses that schools should personalize a student’s education by their ability levels. I think this is a great idea as well as encouraging divergent or creative thinking. This speech would not be nearly as interesting or as easy to understand without the animation. I think everyone could benefit from learning with this type of live and appealing visual aid. It seems to really tell the viewer exactly what the speaker wants to say. It would be hard for me to follow along without it. With this type of media and the argument the speaker makes it seems like he is targeting educators and those in charge of education systems.
I think this is a good video and really makes some very key points. I believe the intended audience for the video is parents and educators. One part of the video really caught my attention was when it said that we learn better in groups or through collaboration, but teachers says its cheating and to work alone. The main argument of the video is that the education system needs to modernize for children today and that our education system started during the period of enlightenment which worked for them. I think the animations worked well I think they keep the viewers’ attention and allow them to follow what is being said during the video.
Like a previous comment has said, I too am a visual learner. The animation helps follow the lecture and clearly show how the components of the lecture coincide with each other.
As for the lecuture itself, it has an appeal to many audiences such as current and former educators, previous generations, and especially the current generation. Being part of the current generation, the video made me wonder about my past educational experience, if it hold the value that was necessary. Yes, education has importance. But I wonder if it prepared me for anything other than to qualify for higher level learning (if I can call it that). I wonder if it has prepared me for anything other whatever the school system could dish out next.
I really liked how the speaker pointed out how the value of education has changed. Since the age of 4, my parents branded into my head that going to college will make me a success. But that was 1997. It is now 2011, where people are finding success without finishing college (or even going in the first place) and the brand has now since disappeared. That is not to say that college is useless, because it definitely is not. But I am no longer gaurenteed success. But this is a good thing because it can drive a harder working kind of people.
The most interesting part was divergent thinking, especially how it changes as we age. As a child, you may say some crazy sounding ideas where an adult may say "How precious", "That's nice", or the like because, hey, you're a child and to you anything is possible if you think it be without trying to execute it because you are a child. But has an older person ever stopped to think that this child wasn't just being a child and the idea was possible? Is is actually possible to fly an airplane made of jelly beans and custard or use a paper clip as a net? But then as we get older, we can't seem to retain these ideas because it becomes absolutely impossible (not even just difficult).
What I would like to say first is the amazing animation. Featured with live drawings, the video vividly presents the model of educational systems nowadays.
Firstly, I suppose that the intended audience is who work in educational system. Because they form the educational systems and implement them simply by age. However, I strongly recommend more people to watch this video in order to arise more critical thinking about the standard educational methods and testing systems. Everyone is unique for the whole world. As the proverb says, I am what I am. Why we need to study the same things with others who are fond of some courses totally differ from mine. In addition, education is used to teach us to be distinguished people and what’s more, acquire the knowledge and skills to make the world better. Admittedly, finding a decent job and get a pretty salary to support families may be our goals, but more important is to contribute to the society and improve the surroundings, which is concluded as social responsibilities.
After our discussion in class, I may get some new ideas about this animation.
Basicly speaking, this video is a rethinking of our current education system shared by almost the whole world, whose pricipal characteristic is modernization. And the chief trait of modernization is "building a structure" or say "construction". Thus, it is because of its modernization that we have to take classes in a room built with concrete and cement to listen to what the teachers tell us, that we shut off our instinctive sense deaden ourselves to what is happening, that we were educated as producing commodities.
Therefore, KR in this video recommend a new style of education similar to "post-modernization", which features "deconstruction" or "breaking the structure that has been built", for example, group study, finding our own ability, divergent thinking and so on.
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