Changing Education Paradigms - video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

Activities

1) Before watching the talk by Ken Robinson on the need to Change Education Paradigms, be sure
you know the meaning of these words: (use a dictionary)

2) Take a look at the pictures and write a paragraph about what you consider might be the most
important topics of the talk. (Prediction of content).

3) Now listen to the talk, paying attention to the pictures in the video, and decide if these sentences
are true or false. Find the evidence, please.

1. Some countries are trying to reform their education

systems.
2. They are concerned about retaining our cultural
identities.
3. He believes having a degree is essential and more
important than your personal satisfaction.
4. Public education systems began in the early 19th
century.

5. People objected to educating

‘street children’ because they thought
they would never be able to learn
anyway.
6. Only people with academic
minds can be brilliant.
7. The speaker believes ADHD is a
myth.
8. Children are being unfairly
punished for getting distracted by
different technologies.
4) Choose the correct alternative

1. Aesthetic experiences occur

when your senses are dead
/alive.
2. Anaesthetic experiences
occur when your senses are
dead /alive.
3. Our current model of
education is aesthetic
/anaesthetic.
4. We should follow the path
of standardisation
/divergent thinking.
5. Divergent thinking is the same thing as /a vital
ingredient of creativity.
6. They tested 1500 /500 people.
7. It was a longitudinal study so they retested the same
children 4/5 years later.
8. In schools it’s cheating /collaboration, outside
schools it’s cheating/collaboration.

5) Fill in the blanks

1-We have to think differently about human ______________.

2-Collaboration is the __________ of growth.

3-It’s crucially about the _______ of our institutions and the habitats that they ________.
6) Write a reflection on the content of the video and include a question of an aspect not considered
in the talk. (50-60 words)