Free tickets, Sir Ken Robinson at the Chan Centre Wed. Sept. 30, noon - 1

Here is an event that we should all attend next Wed. Sept. 30 from noon - 1PM at the Chan Centre at UBC:

Sir Ken Robinson

TED/Terry Talk

<http://www.bioteach.ubc.ca/sir-ken-robinson-coming-to-ubc/>

Ken Robinson is a terrific speaker on education (he has been a professor of education in England), and this is a great opportunity to hear him!

So we will plan to run our class next Wednesday with a field trip to the Chan Centre from noon - 1PM to hear Sir Ken's talk, and then continuing on with our own class from 1 - 2 PM. That means that everyone should get to the Chan Centre today or tomorrow to pick up the one or two tickets you are entitled to as a student (bring your student card).

Ken Robinson has become famous for his 2006 TED talk in California about creativity and needed reforms to schooling: 

<http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html> I recommend that you watch this fascinating (and entertaining) video. Take some time to think about creativity, making mistakes, and the ways we are traditionally educated in mathematics. Do we, as math teachers, contribute to kids' creativity (including those kids who are not going to carry on to do math specialist degrees)?