Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley [spanish subtitles]

Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish - and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.

Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.

Sir Ken Robinson resalta 3 principios fundamentales para que la mente humana prospere - y señala cómo la cultura educativa actual trabaja en contra de ellos. En una presentación graciosa y estimulante no cuenta cómo escapar del «valle de la muerte» educativo que ahora enfrentamos y cómo educar a nuestras generaciones más jóvenes en un clima de posibilidades.

Every kid needs a champion

Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, "They don't pay me to like the kids." Her response: "Kids don't learn from people they don’t like.’” A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.

Rita F. Pierson has spent her entire life in or around the classroom, having followed both her parents and grandparents into a career as an educator.

"We are listening to policy that does not make sense, and we teach anyway"

No dejes de saber por qué fueron tantos antiguos alumnos al funeral de la madre de Rita Pierson, quien fue también profesora.  No dejes de saber lo que Rita contesta a su compañera cuando le dice "No me pagan para que me gusten los chicos a los que enseño".  

"Estamos escuchando políticas sin sentido pero, en cualquier caso, enseñamos"

Pasi Sahlberg. "Finland: an education phenomenon?"

Finland has been described as "an education phenomenon" but in reality it's just the kind of system that most public education advocates have argued in favour of for years - one where the teachers are highly respected and the emphasis is on equality not competition. In this video, Pasi Sahlberg, Director General of the Organisation for International Mobility and Cooperation (in the Ministry of Education) in Helsinki, addresses the 2012 AEU Federal Conference in Melbourne.