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The first day of school is a big day for your child and for you. I hope you enjoy my reading of this lovely poem by Emma Robinson, beautifully animated (as always) by We are Cognitive.
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I was delighted to write this short piece for Wired UK, and hope you find it useful
Standardisation broke education. Here’s how we can fix our schools
“The movement towards personalisation is already advancing in medicine. We must move quickly in that direction in...
The two climate crises. I enjoyed this conversation with @spodek on Education, Leadership and the Environment. Hope you do.
Please listen to the interview here
“As a professor of leadership, host of this podcast, and constant student of acting by my environmental values, I...
If you haven’t seen it yet – take a look at In Search of Greatness from @gabepolsky. The unbeatable power of creativity and passion at the heart of sport. @greatnessmovie
“He realized the limitations of his own physique and developed a whole new style of boxing that suited him...
I’m delighted to share with you my education story for Yidan, and encourage you to share yours.
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This year, the Yidan Prize (www.yidanprize...
Congratulations to our 3 winners who each receive a new signed copy of my bestselling book ‘Out of Our Minds’ – 3rd Edition.
Thank you to everyone who took part, and the team at Nevergrey for hosting. We’ll be posting a lot more content this year, so please join us and subscribe to be...
I greatly enjoyed this conversation and the chance to talk about “that talk” 12 years on and what has and hasn’t changed! Many thanks for all you do at TED.
How are educators thinking about creativity these days? Why should creativity be a focus at all? In this...
Not sure about the royalty allusion, but enjoyed this conversation with TopHat about my own roots and trajectory in education.
Top Hat is the active learning platform that makes it easy for professors to engage students and build comprehension before, during and...
I had a wonderful conversation with ‘Steve Wright in the Afternoon’ on BBC Radio 2 and I’m delighted to share it with you here.
The interview starts on 1:38:30, where we discuss my new book ‘You, Your Child and School‘ and a whole lot more…
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Brilliant to be in Dublin, and to appear on Ireland AM. You can view my interview by following this link.
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From The New York Times bestselling author of The Element and Creative Schools comes an essential book for parents to help their children get the education they need to live fulfilling, productive lives
YOU, YOUR CHILD, AND SCHOOL Navigating Your Way to the Best Education Sir Ken Robinson,...“Ken Robinson writes brilliantly about the different ways in which creativity is undervalued and ignored . . . especially in our educational systems.”
—John Cleese
RECLAIM YOUR CREATIVITY. STARTING NOW.
In his best-selling title, Out...
“School, in a more narrow but important sense, is a community of learners, because we do learn with and from each other… The thing is, we’ve come to associate schools with particular types of institutions which have developed over the past couple of hundred years.”
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A lot of people know about my work through my talks at the TED conference, and especially the first one, in 2006, ‘Do Schools Kill Creativity?’ At 41 million views and counting it is still the most viewed talk in TED’s history. A couple of years ago, I was at a university in the mid-...
I’m honored to say a few words in support of the Book of Joy, published today. The Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu share with us how to live a life of joy in the face of adversity. They show that joy and compassion will always win over anger, fear, and despair. A perfect message for these...
“We don’t want a caste system for creativity.” Enjoyed talking with Kate Magee for this article in Campaign magazine.
Click here to view article.
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Now playing on #Netflix Finding Your Element with Sir Ken Robinson (2013)
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On September 25th 2015, 193 world leaders will commit to the Global Goals for Sustainable Development. 17 goals to achieve 3 extraordinary things in the next 15 years. End extreme poverty. Fight inequality and injustice. Fix climate change. If every school in the world teaches children about...
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Human Hand-Grenade To Standardized Testing & Our Current Educational SystemsClick here to listen: http://drewmarshall.ca/listen2015-html#151010
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My new book, Creative Schools, is now available in print, e-book and audio book. Very pleased to discuss is with the great team at CBS This Morning.
Source link: www.cbsnews.com
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I really enjoyed recording this interview for the recent TED Radio Hour on NPR on creativity. I’m particularly delighted that Dame Gillian Lynn is in the piece too retelling with me the story of her discovery as a child that she wasn’t ‘sick’, she was a dancer.
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...Enjoyed this interview with Sarah Montague at BBC Radio Four part of the new series on The Educators.
I even got to revisit my old elementary school in Liverpool.
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When we launched in Finding Your Element in the UK, I went to BBC Radio 2 in London for an interview and call-in with Paddy O Connell. This is how it went:
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I enjoyed this interview in Paris with with for Aurora Velez for Learning World. Hope you do too.