Name Essays (316 words) - Education, Educational Psychology

Name: Class: Teacher: Creativity in Education: Are we discriminating against multipotentiality? I chose this topic because I could relate to it closely based on my life being based on assessments all the time. I wanted to explore how education can prepare a student for their future in the best possible way. My first text, Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk, Changing the Paradigm' summarised the argument for more creative education with less assessment. He used an animation that had images that all illustrated his ideas but also showed how they related to each other. At the end of his speech the animation pans back so that you can see the whole presentation as one image. I felt that that was really effective because you could see how complex the topic is and why we discriminate against creativity. The second text, Parliament of Australia: Improving School Performance' is a government webpage that explains the government's approach to education today and how current testing and assessment help them to see if their policies are working for preparing students for the future. There are many hyperlinks embedded into this text that allow you to read the research behind all the comments. I really liked expanding my understanding of the topic, so I clicked' on them and read them. What I found though was a little surprising because a lot of the research actually had findings that went against the decision to test everyone through NAPLAN, and other tests. I was not only engaged with Sir Ken Robinson's ideas but impressed with how clear and convincing they were with the animation. I felt that the Government Webpage was detailed but tended to be a collage of information that at times contradicted itself. Therefore, I used the modes and techniques that I found most engaging in text one to communicate how I came to be in favour of developing multipotentialite' students.