↓
 

The PolyBlog

My view from the lilypads

  • Home
  • Goals
    • Goals (all posts)
    • #50by50 – Status of completion
    • PolyWogg’s Bucket List, updated for 2016
  • Life
    • Family (all posts)
    • Health and Spiritualism (all posts)
    • Learning and Ideas (all posts)
    • Computers (all posts)
    • Experiences (all posts)
    • Humour (all posts)
    • Quotes (all posts)
  • Photo Galleries
    • PandA Gallery
    • PolyWogg AstroPhotography
    • Flickr Account
  • Reviews
    • Books
      • Book Reviews (all posts)
      • Book reviews by…
        • Book Reviews List by Date of Review
        • Book Reviews List by Number
        • Book Reviews List by Title
        • Book Reviews List by Author
        • Book Reviews List by Rating
        • Book Reviews List by Year of Publication
        • Book Reviews List by Series
      • Special collections
        • The Sherlockian Universe
        • The Three Investigators
        • The World of Nancy Drew
      • PolyWogg’s Reading Challenge
        • 2026
        • 2023
        • 2022
        • 2021
        • 2020
        • 2019
        • 2015, 2016, 2017
    • Movies
      • Master Movie Reviews List (by Title)
      • Movie Reviews List (by Date of Review)
      • Movie Reviews (all posts)
    • Music and Podcasts
      • Master Music and Podcast Reviews (by Title)
      • Music Reviews (by Date of Review)
      • Music Reviews (all posts)
      • Podcast Reviews (by Date of Review)
      • Podcast Reviews (all posts)
    • Recipes
      • Master Recipe Reviews List (by Title)
      • Recipe Reviews List (by Date of Review)
      • Recipe Reviews (all posts)
    • Television
      • Master TV Season Reviews List (by Title)
      • TV Season Reviews List (by Date of Review)
      • Television Premieres (by Date of Post)
      • Television (all posts)
  • About Me
    • Subscribe
    • Contact Me
    • Privacy Policy
    • PolySites
      • ThePolyBlog.ca (Home)
      • PolyWogg.ca
      • AstroPontiac.ca
      • About ThePolyBlog.ca
    • WP colour choices
  • Andrea’s Corner

Tag Archives: system

TED talks about Education by Ken Robinson

The PolyBlog
March 30 2011

The videos below are two of the TED talks by Ken Robinson (2006 and 2010), who focuses on education systems. The first is about creativity, and how it is as important as literacy, but whereas we learn literacy, we tend to “unlearn” creativity.

The second one looks at how education systems tend to be like manufacturing enterprises, assembly line entities that go linearly from kindergarten to higher education. His talk argues for a different way of looking at it, more like a fine-dining restaurant than McEducation. The quote from Lincoln alone is probably worth the price of watching. Enjoy…

Posted in Learning and Ideas | Tagged creativity, education, government, ideas, system | Leave a reply

Countdown to Retirement

Days

Hours

Minutes

Seconds

Retirement!

One of my favourite sites

And it's new sister site

My Latest Posts

  • Book clubs 2026-04: Options for AprilApril 22, 2026
    March was extremely productive in my personal life, but not so much for reading. I was still finishing My Friends by Fredrick Bachman, and the first 20-25% was a struggle. I loved it, in the end. And I’ve been doing huge personal projects, so no reviews lately. Let’s take a look at the options for … Continue reading →
  • AI testing: The Bad…Time loops, tech support quirks, and driftApril 18, 2026
    By now, most people have seen some form of AI crop up in their tools. The most obvious one is Google’s search engine, which provides results from its AI mode first in the list. You can go pretty far with that prompt, even asking for image creation, although that’s a terrible place to create images … Continue reading →
  • More workplanning on my new Calibre libraryMarch 28, 2026
    I wrote earlier this week (Using Calibre to embrace my inner librarian for ebooks) about the Poly Library 3.0, and when I did, I thought I had most of my “work” done. I had decided on three main areas (the book profile, user engagement, and user tools), although, truth be told, I had four categories … Continue reading →
  • An update on Jacob…March 24, 2026
    For those of you who don’t know, as I didn’t blog about this much before, Jacob decided to have surgery on his legs this year, which he did at the end of February. I’ve held off posting anything as I didn’t want to ask Jacob what he was comfortable with me sharing, but today was … Continue reading →
  • Using Calibre to embrace my inner librarian for ebooksMarch 23, 2026
    I have used Calibre literally for years to manage all my ebooks. It started way back when Kindle was doing a huge business of people pushing freebies of their ebooks. Some good, some slush, all free. But it meant a LOT of ebooks to manage. So I tried a couple of programs, most of which … Continue reading →

Archives

Categories

© 1996-2025 - PolyWogg Privacy Policy
↑