In a recent lynda.com interview about his book Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, Ken Robinson briefly touched on the role of online education. In the sketch notes above I have depicted one of his main ideas – that online eduction can provide an individualized curriculum for each student, but that good teachers can do that too.
I appreciate this balanced approach. I currently have one foot in the door of online education and another foot in the classroom: I teach an online statistics course for high school students and I substitute teach in the Portland area. The stats course is my first exposure to online teaching, and while I do see a lot of potential with online education, I think that I prefer being in the classroom. Ultimately I believe that a blended model of education (with an online component and an in-class component) holds the most potential. As I think about transitioning to full-time classroom teaching I am beginning to feel out what my version of that blend will look like.
Hi Doug, I came across your website when I was doing a Google search on sketchnotes. First let me say that I LOVE, LOVE your website. I describe myself as a math teacher who draws. I’m very interested in using sketchnotes to teach and understand math, too.
I know it’s been awhile since this post, but I wondered if you have seen Ken Robinson’s TED talk on how school kills creativity. Here’s the link:
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
Anyway, thank you for sharing your sketchnotes and thoughts.
Cheers!
Line
Hi Line, thanks for the comment and kind words. I’m glad that you enjoy the site. It has been fun to explore the use of sketchnotes in a variety of contexts – but especially in the realm of education. I watched that Ken Robinson TED talk a while back, but I think it’s worth refreshing my memory – especially in the context of the growing critiques of Khan Academy in math education. It would be interesting to see if KA has a place in Robinson’s view of education. Something to think about…