It's ironic we need to post about the topic of anti-teaching this week. I am having such trouble with the school that my daughters attend, and I think I'm turning into the anti-teaching parent. Simply because traditional teaching methods seem to be so geared to demotivating students' natural desire to learn.
Educators must become more aware of how their students learn and not be resistant to teaching in new and different ways. For students in too many schools they must live two separate lives -- one ritualistic one in the traditional school environment designed as much to help the teacher manage behavior and teachers' needs as to manage learning. The other life, at home, can be filled with exploration and creativity, if there's time after all the homework!
Personal learning environments can now be enabled by technology, and they should be! Graham Attwell's video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWjA-rT3jfk did a great job of making the case of personal learning environments. I often tease about home schooling my daughters. Maybe it's not such a joke anymore.
I don't believe most teachers--at least not the ones I know--have anything but the best intentions toward the students they teach. Unfortunately, educators simply aren't equipped with the time, training, nor resources they need to be successful with the new age of digital learners. Wendy Drexler's You Tube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwM4ieFOotA -
truly inspired me to see what exactly teachers can do set their sights to do for students: Be the education architect. Teach students how to connect to right fit, powerful learning opportunities.
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