Title:

Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY&list=PL70DEC2B0568B5469

Background of the Video:

Sir Kenneth Robinson a renowned author and Professor , in this video talks about Revolutionising education
system for fostering creativity rather than subduing creativity in students.
He expresses that rather than following pre-decided path and norms as per current education system ,Focus
should be on further developing creativity and treating all kind of activities whether
Sports,Drama,Music,Dance at par to Normal School Educational courses and children to be provided
freedom to explore in their desired field.

Communication Strategies:

The speaker interacts with Audience using his humour, jokes and anecdotes to enhance the effectiveness of
the communication and keep Audience engaged.
He tried to further connect with audience by sharing his personal experiences while trying to connect to
theirs.He used comprehension checks, for eg- , “Am I right?”, “Isn’t that true?” to find out to what extent the
audience understands and relates to what he said to what they have experienced.Speaker used the tag
questions as “It's been great, hasn't it?” to seek agreement from the audience and trying to get to know if
audience is following him.
He let the audience know, in time , what the talk was about, with “My contention is that creativity now is as
important in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.” making it clear what he needs
to convey about on his talk.
Speaker used facial Expressions, gestures, eye contacts and pause to make verbal communication more
understandable and to draw complete focus of audience toward his talk.
Speaker involved himself with audience and looked more like having conversation rather than giving speech
and expressed himself very eloquently and passionately.
He used quotes by Pablo Picasso and Jonas Salk at appropriate point in his talk to make his point.
He mentioned Data and figures to validate his point and provide clear information to prove his arguments
and used easy to understand yet effective language to communicate.