What is intelligence?

I caught this one posted on Twitter by Sir Ken Robinson.

http://talentdevelop.com/articles/WIIA.html

It’s made more poignant for me by the fact that one of my sons tends to do badly when faced with writing or maths… but, to quote his teacher, “Has it all going on upstairs”. I often find myself telling him that you cannot be good at everything and that we all have our talents. He is a fantastic visualiser and creator and I don’t ever want him to lose it.

So, for all those geniuses out there, this might bring home a thing or two

Changing Paradigms

This video was shown to me a little while ago by a young lady (!!) called Mikaela. She’s one of the “progressive’s” within the organization and a bloody good teacher to boot.

It features a chap called Sir Ken Robinson who is one of those outlandish thinkers that dares to challenge the educational norm. He’s also quite funny, but in a way that gets the message across.

It made me see that what I was trying to do wasn’t actually new, the idea had been going around for years, but as with all ideas you need someone to hear the message and put it into practice.

Have a look and let me know what you think