As stated by Connie Yowell in the following video by Nic Askew,
"How do you create a need to know in a child?"
Retrieved November 19, 2012 from http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/videos
The video "Engaged" presents so many questions about our purpose and effectiveness as educators.
In her interview, Connie Yowell says:
"We don't make room for curiosity"
Are you able to kindle your students' curiosity for learning amidst the pressures to cover content?
Learning is..."decontextualized because we are focused on outcomes" and not the Experience.
Are you committed to providing authentic learning experiences to your students?
Do you feel that your class' learning suffers because of demands to perform to "outcomes" such as standardized testing? Do you provide experiences where students can "try, fail, and come back to the failures to do again?"
To paraphrase Connie Yowell, ulimately, we want our students to view their learning experience as a "page-turner." Are your students engaged and anxiously anticipating what comes next in their learning experience?
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References
McCleod, Scott. (2012). Dangerously Irrelevent. Retrieved November 19, 2012 from
Hi Meghan,
ReplyDeleteI enjoy this video especially when she said "The Education system often now start with the questions of learning outcomes, it start with what you want kids to learn? What the goals? What the content? What the material they need to cover? And everything is defines by that"
I think the first step of the education system is very important starting point for planning material to support your learning.
Thank you for sharing
Muneer
Meghan I think you bring up many great questions in your post. I think with all of the standardized tests that our students have now sometimes our students get burned out from the constant learn for a four days take a test on the 5th day. I feel this also creates students who are not interested in learning because they can't see the real-world connects. I try and teach my students that it is okay to try and fail as long as they are doing their best, I do not accept a student not even trying something because they are afraid they will "fail" at the task. Life is not perfect our students need to learn how to pick themselves up and try it all over again. Great thoughts presented in your post thanks!
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I like that you included a video clip in your post. Many of the postings in our thread are full of interesting comments, but the fact that you backed it with a clip is important. Talking about the clip..."what do kids want to know?" is a rather loaded question, don't you think? We have to take into consideration the whole metacognition idea. Kids don't always know what they know or don't know. It is not a fair assumption to make that kids understand what needs to be learned. That is why we, as teachers, have to guide and give structure to the students. This is true of preschool students and college students alike.
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