Browsing through some pages related to an online course I'm taking (flat classrooms), I came across a Tedtalk by Michael Wesch from 2010. It contains a phrase that I just had to save for reuse...
" We want our students to become more open, caring, daring, creative, collaborative, self-motivated and voracious as learners."
He suggests this is not achieved by students passively acquiring knowledge from an authoritative source. Instead they need to know how to find information, analyze it, criticize it and create new information.
The video below was filmed in collaboration with his anthropology class. And its an eloquent documentary about just how meaningless some aspects of education have become.
" We want our students to become more open, caring, daring, creative, collaborative, self-motivated and voracious as learners."
He suggests this is not achieved by students passively acquiring knowledge from an authoritative source. Instead they need to know how to find information, analyze it, criticize it and create new information.
The video below was filmed in collaboration with his anthropology class. And its an eloquent documentary about just how meaningless some aspects of education have become.