Sunday, March 17, 2013

What Paolo would change

I had a hard time understand what he was saying. He is obviously a very educated and smart man. From the parts that I understood. He believes that the students are asked to basically just memorize everything and not apply them. The relationship between students and teachers is strained and it needs to be changed. He is basically saying get rid of the typically classrooom setting and put these children in the hands on learning style. The "banking concept" refers to the children being asked to learn a bunch of material and just retain it for later use. He wants to get rid of that complety. He suggests, "Problem Posing" as an educational stradegy. Meaning again take the children out of the typically classroom and teach them everything in real time in the real world. I especailly liked when he started talking about one child is always a certain type of learner, he can't become a different type when he needs too. What I picture this as is a classroom that instead of just learning material in the classroom actually does all their learning on field trips. Going into different jobs maybe of the parents of students and actually learning how to do them. If a childs parent is involoved they can show them everything and teach them how to do it easily. The children would see everything in the "real world" it would really stick in their heads. Instead of using the formulas in math to just get an answer they can see how a machine or computer needs those formulas to create something. The results could be absolutely amazing. A child might even figure out where their passions lie through this method much quicker than  waiting all the way until college.

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  1. I think a lot of us have experienced the "banking concept." Sitting there repeating what's on the board and expecting to regurgitate it on the test. Oh my goodness, it was dreadful!!

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