{"id":1720,"date":"2020-08-24T15:46:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T15:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2021-02-26T04:37:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T04:37:18","slug":"in-memory-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/in-memory-of\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memory of &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a distinguished career in education spanning more than three decades, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2020-08-23-tributes-pour-in-for-sir-ken-robinson-a-source-of-insight-inspiration-and-joy-for-millions\" target=\"_blank\">Sir Ken Robinson has died<\/a>. The author of several best-selling books, Robinson is best known for having given the most popular TED Talk of all time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Robinson&#8217;s biggest legacy is the generation of educators he inspired with his strong encouragement to move away from schools as rigid test-prep factories toward a more artistic, liberating, and student-friendly environment. This was a much-needed and much-appreciated message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students in my courses know that I have used Robinson&#8217;s TED talks (and other materials) as a starting point for many discussions. His wisdom and humor will be greatly missed &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a distinguished career in education spanning more than three decades, Sir Ken Robinson has died. The author of several best-selling books, Robinson is best known for having given the most popular TED Talk of all time. However, Robinson&#8217;s biggest legacy is the generation of educators he inspired with his strong encouragement to move away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,150,147,148,149,151],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bill-morelan","tag-ken-robisons-death","tag-memory-of-sir-ken-robinson","tag-sir-ken-robinson","tag-ted-talk","tag-tribute-to-ken-robinson","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}