20th century teaching focuses on the answering who, what, when, where and sometimes how; however, is this enough for us to move ahead, to lead, to innovate, to be ready for a world filled with WHY questions? Knowing is no longer enough. There is a need to help learners use this accessible knowledge. There is a need to encourage curisoity, promote creativity, and empower leadership to ensure that all students love learning.
(extracted from website)
- Quote: In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with world that no longer exists. (Eric Hoffer, American philosopher)
- Today's learners see, inquire, take risks, collaborate and associate
- One Question: Is the school getting in the way of learning?
- Example: "Canon" re-arranged, electric guitar version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjA5faZF1A8&feature=related)
- Example: "Four Seasons" re-arranged, electric guitar version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxplDa3M5Io&feature=related)
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Our Observations and/or Takeaways...
From Kin Chuah
It's about
reaching into students' intrinsic curiosity and love of learning to transform their learning
encouraging students' curiosity and promoting their creativity to ensure that they love learning
Interesting quotes/points for pondering
Stay in the question. Don't rush into solutions
Does schooling gets in the way of learning?
Social Studies - Science of Decision Making
Never asks questions that you can look up
International is mandatory
Who is educated? Noun or verb?
From Kwai Yin:
I quite like the clip that showed students playing a classical piece using an electric guitar. What struck me is the youngster's creativity and (also what Marco further shared that) willingness to 'teach' others 'how-to' do it (via the clips!), which was multimedia tutorial. Indeed, it's the 'making' of the a community of the think-alike. It's also from the clips we notice how creative the youngsters are today - e.g. the clip of the re-arranged "4-seasons"... notice how the creator blend the 2 clips together?
From Irfan:
Just to add on or to reiterate to what have been said earlier:
Marco talks about how as teachers and educators, we should be looking at how not to make the ‘Schooling getting in the way of the Learning’. I do find this a little bit strange at first, what with the usual idea that schooling and learning should be one and the same. But upon reflection, I guess there would be instances, and perhaps even more in the near future whereby these two seems to be diverging towards 2 different directions. This dichotomy, though strange, stems from the idea that where the LEARNING situations and environment have changed and adapted with the times, the TEACHING of knowledge have somehow or rather been rather lagging behind!
One interesting thing that Marco also mentioned is the idea that 'Experts are indeed horrible communicators'. A thought that struck me was: Is he referring to experts here in a generic sense, or is he also refering to us teachers? I do find it true that sometimes the worst teachers are the experts themselves, because of their higher probability to succumb to the 'blind side syndrome' (or something like that in nature), where experts couldn't figure out what is so difficult about their subject matter when other non-experts are trying to understand it further.
Marco also mentioned about the value add that we teachers in the classroom are providing to generation of students that have grown up in this digital age. He questioned about what we as teachers, can value-add, when almost EVERYTHING can be GOOGLED?
Marco also mentioned about the value add that we teachers in the classroom are providing to generation of students that have grown up in this digital age. He questioned about what we as teachers, can value-add, when almost EVERYTHING can be GOOGLED?
One thing by Marco that I do find refreshing is the idea of defining a person through the NETWORK that he or she is connected to. What I find refreshing is the fact that as students are getting to be more connected, shouldn't we as teachers be doing so too? And as we move away from the notion that 'teachers are experts' thinking, and everything else can be Googled, shouldn't we as teachers also be connected to, and perhaps network to form a Google-plex connection of our own too?
Marco also managed to highlight the need to be seeing things at really, out of the box. His example of hordes of people taking the SAME pictures of this geographical feature called ULURU in the deserts of Australia, and of how he and his friend took a different path and road, and waited for a different time too, to take a picture of the same feature...and the results were no less as impressive, but more importantly, more refreshing and creative! It is, at the end of it all, about how much risks we would want to take, and about how much effort do we want to take...and move ourselves out from the confines of what has been done before by hordes of others before us, so that we would be able to take a more refreshing, and sometimes, even better 'picture'.
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