Changing Educational Paradigms

I would like to share with you a recent talk given by Sir Ken Robinson at the RSA in London – beautifully and brilliantly distilled into eleven minutes by Cognitive Media. It is a call to arms for greater creativity and risk-taking in teaching and more collaborative work in groups at school.

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