Ted Talks Position Paper
When thinking about if technology should be used in the classroom my immediate radar of rule-breaking goes off. As my brain begins to list the many problems monitoring tech in the classroom I must accept it is now a part of life and a major part of learning for today's kids. I watched the following Ted Talk Do schools kill creativity? by Sir Ken Robinson searching for reasons why such is beneficial to use. One of the first things Sir Robinson said that I thought was brilliant was that "creativity is as important now as literacy". He goes on to explain in depth that the education system must change as there is a flood of intellectual degrees based on the idea that the math, languages, and humanities field are the most important and the only ones that can get you a job. This kind of thinking has created what Sir Robinson has called "academic inflation". I do agree with him that the academic market is flooded, this is the reason why many schools are pushing st
