The document discusses the need to change the current education paradigm, which standardizes curriculum and testing and underestimates student creativity and intelligence. It suggests that standardization has made school routine and boring, potentially contributing to increased ADHD diagnoses, and that students are sometimes overly reliant on drugs to deal with the system. The document argues that education needs to move away from conformity and focus more on the differing capacities of individual students.

1. { Tess Jay – Changing the Education Paradigm }
The standardization of the educational
system underestimates intelligence
and penalizes creativity
Changing the Education Paradigm:
{ Ken Robinson: TED }

2. { Tess Jay – Changing the Education Paradigm }
The current system was designed
for a different age
{ Industrial Revolution }

3. { Tess Jay – Changing the Education Paradigm }
Standardization makes school
routine and ultimately boring
{ causation correlation to the diagnosis of ADHD? }

4. { Tess Jay – Changing the Education Paradigm }
The diagnosis of ADHD has risen with
the growth of standardized testing
{ 5.2 billion “cases” }

5. { Tess Jay – Changing the Education Paradigm }
We are getting our children through
school by anaesthetizing them
{ drugs deaden their senses}

6. { Tess Jay – Changing the Education Paradigm }
Get away from conformity and
standardization in curriculum
{ there shouldnʼt be just one right answer }

7. Thank you, the end
http://www.ted.com/talks/
ken_robinson_changing_education_paradigms
Changing the Education
Paradigm requires thinking
differently about human capacity