12.8.10
Hello
This is very interesting what we are learning in our class today, it seems that we need to change the way our schools are run. Who knew! The most interesting part was when Sir Ken Robinson related changing the industrial model of education model to an agricultural model, but what do we do now after or society has applied an industrial model to agriculture. Both these videos were very interesting, I am very tired today, I had to work till two last night, I want some sympathy!
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I sympathize with you Mike. The computer screen are beginning to fry my ojos!
ReplyDeleteAs for class related topics, I would like to give our schools mirrors so that they may see themselves as we do. Or an alarm clock with a wake up call to what new generations need. Math, English, and Science are not the only roads to take, as I'm sure you as a musician knows. Bring back the Arts and let's remodel the system!
I was also intrigued by the agriculture model. At first I thought about it and it wasn't really clicking for me. I was thinking, "well when a tomato plant seed is planted it is destined to become a tomato plant for the rest of its life. It can never become a cucumber or an orange or a kumquat... isn't that linear??" Then I kind of realized what he was talking about: we as educators need to let nature take its course. We can't turn a tomato into a cucumber... and by that I mean we can't turn a young man who wants to be a fireman into a college professor. If we try to do that we are failing that student as well as society.
ReplyDeleteI found that those stories really stuck with my as well. We can't try and conform our students into what we WANT then to be, just because we think a certain path will bring them success and financial security if they are not motivated internally they are never going to be truly happy. The best part is that by being teachers we can help students find their passions instead of pushing them in a certain direction.
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