- What industry do you work in and what is your role?
- What are your responses in your role / position?
- Can you describe to the function of your workplace / company?
- How many departments, how many offices. National or International?
- What are the minimum requirements for employment ie Education or Experience?
- How many opportunities are there to ‘move up the ladder’?
- What is the process for changing job roles ie Interview? Test?
- Current projects? Deadlines? Opportunities?
- Anything of interest happening?
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Sir Ken Robinson, one of the world’s leading thinkers on reforming the educational system, died on Friday. His ideas found a global audience after he delivered the most popular TED Talk of all time, a 2006 talk that has been viewed more than 65 millions.
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I featured Robinson’s now famous TED Talk in my book, Talk Like TED. In the talk, “Why Schools Kill Creativity,” Robinson addressed a big topic in just 18 minutes: reimagining the educational system so that it nurtures creativity instead of stifling it.
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TRobinson was a talented speaker who kept his audience engaged without using slick animations or presentation slides. His public-speaking tools were humor and storytelling.
Why do you think this particular speech gained so much attention? Let’s watch the first 5 minutes and discuss.
Humor
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“If they’re laughing, they’re listening,” Robinson once told an interviewer. As an educator, Robinson knew that nobody will stick around for his ideas if they are mentally checked out. In his TED talk, the laughs start early. Here are several portions of Robinson’s presentation that elicits the biggest laughs in the first five minutes.
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If you’re at a dinner party and you say you work in education—actually, you’re not often at dinner parties, frankly, if you work in education… But if you are, and they say, “What do you do?” and you say you work in education, you can see the blood run from their face. They’re like, “Oh my God. Why me? My one night out all week.”
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I heard a great story recently of a little girl who was in a drawing lesson. She was six, and she was at the back, drawing…the teacher was fascinated. She went over to her, and she said, “What are you drawing?” And the girl said, “I’m drawing a picture of God.” And the teacher said, “But nobody knows what God looks like.” And the girl said, “They will, in a minute.”
How do you think the Japanese education system compares to other places in the world? Please discuss. Feel free to include anecdotal evidence of things you have heard or seen.
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In the first five minutes Robinson elicited about 10 laughs from the audience. At two laughs per minute, that made Robinson’s talk more entertaining than many comedy films. Robinson’s humor was largely self-deprecating. Although you have to be careful about poking too much fun at yourself and risk losing credibility, social psychologists have found that humor scores points with an audience. Robinson taught us to lighten up.
Storytelling
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In his TED Talk, Robinson told the story of a woman he had met. Gillian Lynne was Broadway royalty. She choreographed “Cats” and “Phantom of the Opera.” Robinson asked Lynne how she became a dancer. She said that when she was going to school in the 1930s, her school administrators believed she had a learning disorder because she couldn’t concentrate and was always fidgeting.
How important do you think it is to discover a unique skill, what were your interests when you were young, did you have any particular talents?
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