Today, children are able to learn about anything they desire with the use of a small, complex devises that can be carried in their pockets. In a matter of seconds, children can learn about whatever their heart desires, as long as they have access to the internet. Robinson explains that students are not interested in the education that public schools have to offer. The curriculum is boring and uninteresting, rendering students less stimulated by school and more stimulated by the many technological tools available (i.e. Xbox, Playstation, Google, YouTube, Snapchat, etc.). In fact, Robinson explains that this is the most stimulating time in history, and rather that taking advantage of this stimuli, "we are getting our children through education by anesthetizing them." It is disheartening that modern society would rather anesthetize exuberant children rather than allow them to be stimulated and feel alive. Robinson explains that educators should rather be waking students up to what is inside of themselves. Learning should be a vivid and exciting experience, and to essentially turn students from stimulated explorers into anesthetized zombies is cruel and takes away from the experience of learning. Rather than taking students energy levels down, we should increase the energy levels of learning.
Learning should not put you to sleep.
Located below are the videos by Robinson and Richardson that support the ideologies of this post.
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