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Transforming Education to Suit the Needs of a Globalized World

Robinsons proposes a whole new education system in which the economy and globalized-based instruction need to be transformed into a entire new creativity-based approach where teachers can create technology based lessons and where students feel interested and excited by trying tasks that are more related to their current interests, allowing them to work in a cooperative-learning environment. Robinson states that what society needs is to make a big change in how we do things, because it seems that what matters is what we do, instead of the how and why we do it. He claims that the big mistake in the current education system is to try to build the future, based on past practices, theories and target populations. We are making similar mistakes as there were made before and there is still the mentality that the harder you work at school, the easier it is to get a good job in the future. So, we keep the same mentality of giving priorities to those who are considered great academics, even without knowing the process they had to accomplish it; leaving behind those non-academics that may not have had formal education but still might have the willingness and capacity of doing a great job in a specific field, however, they are not allowed to do so, because they havent been assessed or given an academic certificate. Considering creativity as an important matter in the new education paradigm, Robinson affirms that it is an essential contribution to generate innovations, as well as an attractive way of learning and teaching. He relates this concept with the one of divergent thinking, this one consisting of the capacity to come up with a lot of possible solutions to the same problem, the ability to create different shapes inside a society that has preserved a linear mentality. Although creative professionals and original purposes come out every day, their planning is not good enough just written down on a paper, those need to be developed in an accurate environment that requires technologic tools instead of an architectural building with golden bells where students are required to pray and repeat to pass tests and achieve grades, rather than to study in order to construct their own knowledge.

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At trying to transform the education world, it is necessary to be aware of the fact that we are going into a globalized era and technology is one of the best tools to communicate and keep people concerned with their learning process. If teachers are given enough tools, guidance, confidence and opportunity; and if they are willing, they could be able to construct meaningful and interesting lessons for their students, where they are still focused on the curricula and use technology only as a means to achieve their main educational goal. To conclude, it can be said that Robinsons ideas to revolution this current system, go hand by hand with Burns technological approach, since teachers and students are given innovative techniques to instruct and construct knowledge; giving way to creative teachinglearning and critical thinking.