Category Archives: Creativity

The Dalai Lama and Mr Gove or Discovering Talent and Passion

Only Ken Robinson could put the Dalai Lama and Michael Gove in the same talk (making a point about knowing your own limitations – one does and the other doesn’t, but you have to watch.) This is another classic Ken … Continue reading

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Making a Mark: with luck.

I am just reading Making a Mark (HMI March 2012) which is the latest report about art education in England by my old friend and colleague Ian (otherwise known as HMI). Click here for a copy. It is so overwhelmingly sensible … Continue reading

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Creativity, Culture and Education remember that?

This is just a quick post as a reminder of the really useful report published by Ken Robinson in 1999 ‘All Our Futures’. I had forgotten that I had a PDF of this report – long since out of print … Continue reading

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Cultural Education in England

It is always important not to confuse a profusion of platitudes with intelligence. The (Henley) report ‘Cultural Education in England’ repeats many well-meaning and worthy principles and, of course, it is to be welcomed. There are some genuinely valuable insights … Continue reading

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We Can All Join In

Sir Ken Robinson provides the closing statement for the LWF 12 conference under the theme “leading a learning revolution”. In this reflective summary he argues that revolutions don’t come from the top but are ground up movements of people with … Continue reading

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Ken Robinson explains what Mr Gove fails to understand

Sir Ken Robinson presents a deeply intelligent and comprehensive view of the purposes, context and future of education which goes so much further than the e-Bac and Oxbridge. It is  presented as part of the Learning Without Frontiers programme which … Continue reading

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Unblocking and unlocking: and catching up with students

For years it has been a recuring rant that we cant seem to find a way to use the new technologies – taken for granted by students – in classrooms to support their learning. The blocking and locking strategies used … Continue reading

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A Better BETT

I dropped into BETT earlier today (I was in London and the free bus pass for old people meant an easy bus ride to Olympia from Kensington). It was interesting to be immersed in teachers once again, but not necessarily … Continue reading

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Click and Create

Virtually attending a webinar about new media, creativity and art kidnapping was a fascinating experience. This was the webinar for the Click and Create conference (the conference has been postponed and will be rescheduled next year). The two speakers illuminated, … Continue reading

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Banksy in Bexhill.

Really good video / installation exhibition by Catherine Yass at the De la Warr pavilion in Bexhill. But almost as good a Banksy on the beach – which the council has protected with a perspex sheet. Is that to miss … Continue reading

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