I'm Crystal Cusimano. I am currently the Faculty Affairs Officer of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering at the University of Rochester. I hold a B.A. in Economics and business and a Master's degree in Marketing. I am currently studying to earn a Master's in Education Media Design and Technology.
For the past five years, I've worked with faculty in many different ways. One of my major goals is to revolutionize the way faculty and staff use technology for teaching and learning.
Our current education system just isn't working at any level. We need to start from the ground up and build a more creative, flexible curriculum....one that encourages creativity and passion and not quotas and high standardized testing scores.
Sir Ken Robinson said it best,
"...kids will take a chance. If they don't know, they'll have a go. Am I right? They're not frightened of being wrong. Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. If you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by the way. We stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make. And the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities. Picasso once said this. He said that all children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up. I believe this passionately, that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it." (http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html)
It's time for a r/evolution in education....
