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Ken Robinson’s 4 min. and 26 second video

Thank you to Catherine Ring for sending me the link to Sir Kenneth Robinson answering two questions sent to him via Twitter specifically about assessing creativity. The questions are:

1. “Is it at all possible to grade a creative mind? What would be more suitable to do?”
2. “If measurable outcomes are least important result of learning, how do we redefine accountability based on the unquantifiable?”

In this video he answers the questions. He defines creativity as “the process of having original ideas that have value.” Three components exist “process, originality, value”.

Please add your comments below to assessing creativity.

If you are not familiar with Ken Robinson’s well known TED video called Do Schools Kill Creativity? you can view it at this meartsed blog called “TED” by clicking here. TED is Technology, Entertainment and Design and has short videos of people speaking on a variety of topics.

Who says collaboration doesn’t take place at the high school?

I received an email from art teacher Randy Menninghaus, who shared the following collaboration work that is happening at Brewer High School.

Michele H

“I am collaborating with modern language and English to create portraits that honor some of the disappeared people from Argentina’s Dirty war. We are fortunate to have a Spanish teacher, Fred Raven, who has met some of the Mothers who walk every Thursday in the plaza in Argentina.

English teacher, Andrea Martin, will help my students polish their artist statements. Mr. Raven’s class than translates the artists statements. We did this last year and than posted the images on line so that the relatives of the deceased might have access to the art work.

At the end we hung them up in the display area on the Day of the Dead and celebrated their memories with Day of the Dead Bread.  A great source is the Disappeared Project on the net.”

Teal J