DISQUS

ylld · 11 months ago

This is great. I believe that children need to be offered the experience of passion-based learning on a regular basis. Are there any "best practices" out there or experimental groups who are trying to do this? I'd love to hear more about what you mentioned, Robin, in the short video which I saw on Teemu's website after Le Web where you suggest that the best way to "subvert" the system is through individual initiatives. Denise (in Paris)

yolandatexas · 11 months ago

How to prepare our children for life?
As a teacher I believe children should be exposed to different activities, including multiple hands-on applications to learn different content. Unfortunately the old traditional method of delivering instructions by lecturing still is used in the majority of our classroom. In order for our children to learn to solve real-world problems, they need to be presented with real problems so they can learn how to solve them and think outside the box. Working collaboratelly is a great way of teaching them how more than one idea is better to solve problems.

Our students also need to be exposed to different media, not only the textbook they use in the classroom. They need to have different sources available, including the internet so they can get different point of views from different authors. They also need to learn 21st. century technology skills that are required in the real-world.

Unfortunately, our children will not learn that if their teachers are not willing to learn to use the tools their students need in order be successful learners in the 21st. century.

Yolanda