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In the 20 minute presentation below from the TED 2006 conference, Sir Ken Robinson discusses the importance of creativity in learning and the need for our society to create an education system that nurtures creativity, as opposed to the current system that often fails to recognize creativity and in many ways undermines it.
"We are educating people out of their creativity." -- Sir Ken Robinson
We all know that "a picture paints a thousand words." In movies, the dialogue supports the image. Images are more meaningful when easily recognized, allowing the audience to use their imagination and recall a common experience. Used appropriately in learning, it can ratchet up the engagement factor.
From comic book legend Stan Lee (chairman emeritus of Marvel Enterprises and chief creative officer of POW! Entertainment) . . . "When I was in the Army I wrote training films and I wrote training
manuals. One of my jobs was to take subjects that the troops were
having trouble learning and rewrite the manuals so they could absorb
that knowledge faster. And what I did was I used more illustrations. I
came as close to the comic strip format as I could. I also added a bit
of humor, which helps tremendously. And we were able to speed up the
training processes in a lot of areas."
