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[Education]
[Adobe & Education]
[How is technology transforming education?]
[A Conversation with Sir Ken Robinson]
[Sir Ken Robinson, Author, Creativity Expert] I find it very interesting, actually, to look at how
the digital tools that are available are changing the planet
and the lives that our students are leading.
The fact is, most people who are teaching now in schools
were born before these tools were available.
And our students take them completely for granted.
Somebody once said that technology is not technology
if it happened before you were born.
I mean, I was born in 1950, which does seem like a very long time ago, now.
But I wasn't very excited about electricity, you know?
It wasn't some major breakthrough for me,
but it was for my grandparents.
And our kids aren't really that excited about a lot of the technologies
now that excite adults; they simply take them for granted.
So our students have a facility with digital technology,
and it's right and proper, therefore, that we should
build them into the heart of education.
But it's also important we do it because
the tools themselves are creating cultural
changes and possibilities which are really quite new.
Our students are connected with not just the people in the room around them,
but with, literally, anybody on the planet they care to be connected to.
And that's an entirely new cultural proposition, I think,
and it changes the game.
And my argument is that one of the reasons we have to transform education,
and we really do,
is because the technologies have changed the whole context of education.
But they're also among the ways
in which transformation itself will take place.
So this shift, to me, is much more than a shift
in the way we do art or the way we do design,
although that's certainly the case.
These tools are extraordinary there.
They affect the way we think in all disciplines.
They affect the way we think of disciplines.
They affect the way disciplines interact.
So these new tools seem, to me, to be
providing opportunities in a palate of possibilities
which will be available to every single student, not just to a few.
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