My Media Assignment Struggle

My dad and I trying to act normal 

WARNING: This is me trying to get my thoughts straight. I don't know why i posted it but ya if you want to read about my passions and how I'm terrible at decision give it a read ;)

In my beloved media class we were asked to find something we are passionate about and do an assignment on it about it, and present how you use creativity for it. It seems very simple for most, but for me this is extremely hard. I thought and i thought more on this and came up with nothing. I then when to the one person who generally knows me the most, my dad. He came up with this list for me:
-Fishing
-Horses
-Baking
-Photography
-Being weird/crazy (not using that one)
I took his advise and i thought about all these topics. This made my decision even harder. I thought long and hard and I came up with pro's and con's for all these and I can't do a presentation of all these so I'm hoping when I write these all down, I come up with my favorite, but I will also be able to show more than one thing that I'm passionate about. So here we go.

Fishing
Now to people fishing is generally extreamly boring or you love it. For me I love it. The reason I chose to fishing is because it's the one thing that I have continously done since I was about 3 years old with one of those kid fishing poles. The reason I love fishing is because it feeds my compeitive side of me. My brother (Jesse), dad, and I always have a compeition to see who can catch the most fish. FYI i almost always win! The only struggle I have with this topic is a hands on activity, and how I use creativity for it. I don't generally get creative when i go out and try to catch a fish, I simply just go cast my line and wait unpatiently. I mean does try how many times you can hook your brothers sweater creative?

Kai (left) and Twilia(right) 

Horses
This is agruably my favioute and most passionate topic. I have had i great obession with these 1000 pound animals since i was a young child. I currently own two amazing horses, Kai and twilia. Kai is a retired racehorse who is my 22 year old baby, and Twilia is my miniature horse with a huge heart but shes spunky. Twilia is broke to drive in a cart, and Kai is my riding horse. I use creativity with these two, to try new things. I will come up with a creative yet somewhat stupid idea and will do it. Currently both horses know how to shake a paw, and twilia knows how to go up stairs. The only problem I see with this topic is the hands on component. The only two ideas that I could come up with is A)Bringing Twilia in for my presentation and let people see her shake a paw and pet her or B)Buy a class set of broomstick horses and let the class go run around outside.

Baking
Being almost 1/2 my family coming from menonite backgrounds of course i know and love to bake, and cook. Baking is probably something I could make a carrer out of if I wasn't go probably going collage to be an accountant. I bake every weekend for my grandparents and great aunt. I have had a strong passion for it since I was about 7. Baking is one of my easier choices for my assignment for me. Creativity is almost always used whether it decorating, making new recipes, or improving old ones. Plus the hands on activity would be a breeze! Just make some cupcakes and let the class decorate them!

Photography
For me photography is that hidden thing that close to no body knows that i have an interest in. I have only been starting to take a lot of photos and actually trying in the last few years. This is the easiest choice but its so over done. I mean to me i think im awful at photography. But i do have a few that i like. For me photography isn't that much of a creative process. If the picture fall under: animals, horses, horse racing, or something i like i'll just take a picture. There no creative process. Plus the other thing is I have no idea what to do for the hands on part of the assignment. Some of the photos that I'm actually willing to let people see are below:

Through out all this writing I was hoping I would be able to clear my head of all the ideas that were jumping around. I guess it did a little but I still have a lot of decisions left to make. So if anybody that actually comes across this post, please give me some imput! I'm still lost as ever.

Sit, Talk, Roll Over

From a very young age we are taught how to sit still, talk only when talked to, and to follow the rules. If we deny to follow or go against them we are punished. We are punished by making the smart people feel dumb, and the not so smart champions.We are forced to be produced in numbers, and types. We are forced to be what the education system and the government tell us we are supposed to be. We are the group that are not creative because we have had that beaten out of us along our school years. We are teenagers. We are the victims of the educational system.                  

 “The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.”-Ken Robinson 

Today in class we had a discussion about how schools and the educational system is killing the creativity in children. In my opinion I agree with the side that said educational systems are killing creativity. The current education system was build in the industrial revolution which emphasizes the needs for English and math. It is the furthest thing from MODERN. 

As a student in the current education system I can tell you straight up that creativity is killed. If a student try to get creative or try something new, they will automatically be shut down and told to redo it properly. The best example I can give you is the Grade 10 Literacy test. All that the literacy test wants you to know is how to make an essay and prove your point in the most boring way, I really wish I knew that the first time i wrote it. I also gather from the people I talked to that the children that hated English and go by the standards easily got higher marks, and the people that enjoy English and are very creative were scored lower. 

No matter where you are in the world you will be told what to do, and how to do it. As student I hate this and honestly want to change the education system. But i face another problem, the problem of not knowing how to make a change. As students we are taught to sit, talk, and follow, but we were never told how to be a leader. We have no idea how to make a change. From the beginning we were taught to follow not lead. So when we are told to make a change how are we supposed to do it?