Video Review - Changing education paradigms

Diego Flores
Apr 11, 2015
3 min read

This Saturday after looking for another video, I found one great video based on education from Ted Talks. This video is from Ken Robinson, and is based on 3 troubling things: drop-out rates, school’s dwindling stake in the arts, and ADHD. The speech he gave was completely credible, as his sources came from real events and real people. Summarizing the video, he explained why education in this generation is not so important to people as it was before. People in the past knew that working hard gave them education, and education gave them a job. Education has changed throughout the years. On the talk by Rita Pierson, she explains how the connection between student and teacher affects their performance at school. Many of the students who had that special connection with their professors have the opportunity to become successful in school as they get the guidance to succeed. Looking back at Robinson's article, many new jobs have been created, on which most of them education isn’t a requirement, making people believe that education isn’t needed anymore. In the other hand, people who had struggled and went to school are no longer guaranteed a secure job. Robinson addressed this issues on a drawing type of way. His video consists of drawings and writing on the topic, making it now only educational by the way he is saying things, but also by adding the visuals so the audience knows what and who is he referring about. Robinson’s voice is monotone, which makes it obvious it’s not intended for kids or teenagers. Mostly his targeted audience was teachers and parents, not only to explain what results he encountered, yet to convince them to be comprehensive on this generation. It was really effective adding the visuals to the video, as it kept the audience intrigued by what he had to say. The only thing I didn’t find so appealing was the way he explained drop-out rates. That section should have lasted longer in the video, as I felt it needed a little more strong facts or information in order to prevent students from dropping out of school. Another thing was the time of the video. It felt too short for all the information he was giving the audience. It was only 11 minutes where in my opinion, it should have been at least 15 minutes. When talking about the policy in this topic, such has been the same for a couple of years now. Yes, education has changed, yet nothing has been done to change it. The only way it has changed, was by giving everyone the opportunity to experience education by campaigns and programs around the world. Other than that, I honestly think this was a great blog, and I would definitively watch another video like this. I completely agree with the idea he proposed of how teachers and parents should be more comprehensive on this generation. My family is a great example of such, especially in my case. I can relate to this video as some members from my family insist on me dropping out of school and focus completely on my new job. In the other hand, the other part don’t want to do it, as if I do finish school and get a degree, the pay difference between my current job and a job I could get with a degree its really big.