RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

This RSA Animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award.
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This audio has been edited from the original event by Becca Pyne. Series produced by Abi Stephenson, RSA. Animation by Cognitive Media.

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[The RSA]

Wow - 10 million views! Thanks so much everyone for watching, and hope you've been inspired to make change where you can!

[DarthConnis]

Did anyone else have the sound cut off at 11:15?

[Silke Huion]

Ik vind dit een zeer interessante video, dankzij de tekeningen en de prenten wordt het trouwens ook beter verstaanbaar.

Vooral over het deel van ADHD ben ik het met deze video eens. Op de dag van vandaag kom je het meer en meer tegen. In elke klas zal je wel een leerling hebben waarop het label: ADHD is gekleefd. Maar is dit ook zo? Heeft de leerling wel daadwerkelijk ADHD, gewoon omdat hij of zij niet altijd gefocust is en niet altijd mooi stil zit? Het volk van nu trekt te snel conclusies!

[Peter Todd]

In addition to my last comment though, just to reassert that I'm really not an expert and it may well be that in some cases people who are given these drugs do indeed feel like they've had a chemical cosh... certainly not what I would like to see in society.

[Peter Todd]

I'm certainly not an expert either. Normally I'd have used more guarded language - "seems a bit disingenious".

As far as I know, though, this idea that stimulants / sedatives have a paradoxical effect on ADHD is wrong. The theory is that parts of the brain responsible for mediating responses to stimuli are underactive, and stimulants are able to redress this. So they might qualitatively change the way a person thinks - perhaps a concern in itself - but they don't anaesthetise.

[Sarah Baert]

I think this is a very interesting video and we should really do something with it. I can imagine that people just listen to it, nod and then go on with their lives, but there are some really interesting things said in this video. I especially agree with the part about ADHD. Today, the label of ADHD is given too fast, in every class you fill find at least one person who has it.

[Chris Cheong]

Hi RSA!, Can i actually use this video in my parenting seminars & workshop? :) It is very informative packed, i have always preach the same thing but have come a across a full video for it.

[Hraefncin]

Nice to see an intelligent, fairly civil argument on a youtube vid!?! Keep it up!

[Hraefncin]

I think it has more to do with us duping ourselves--after all, society is what we make it to be. And we currently have a system that encourages conformity and consumerism and discourages divergence (unless you're *really* good at it); but I think that's mostly due to the current state of economics than any single societal factor. But yes, I share your disheartening.

[Hraefncin]

I think he's summarizing the effect--from what I understand (correct me if I'm wrong) what acts as stimulation for most people can have a sedative effect on someone with ADHD, and vice versa, a normal sedative can act as a stimulant. But I think he was more addressing over drugging and hyper-diagnoses: In another vid, he posits that as many as half the diagnoses might be wrong. But I'm definitely coming at this from a lay-person's perspective, so no hate if I'm wrong!

[Hraefncin]

Wow--that connection... I hadn't thought that before, but now that's pretty powerful. Thanks.