Rehabilitating Creativity

 Kevin submitted the following, stating:

"I wanted to share my all-time favorite Ted Talk by Sir Ken Robinson, which can be found here.

His speech talking about how schools kill creativity continues to resonate with me every day and even more so now that I a teacher transitioning out of the classroom where I have not felt able to make things my own on multiple occasions. He states that we are often 'educated' out of our creative capacities and that we lose the ability to think for ourselves and create new things as we get older due to a fear of being wrong. Even more central to IDs, he states: '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.'

We must create lessons to meet training needs and equip learners with new skills they are supposedly going to need. The issue is that those needs are always changing, particularly in regards to E-Learning where new programs and services are constantly being developed and implemented. We require a certain degree of creativity to make lessons on these programs engaging and relevant to our learners and it can be difficult to rehabilitate our creative capacities after having them stunted for so long. Even more so when we are educating learners on things they will use for years to come despite us not knowing what the future holds."