https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/15/robots-schools-teaching-children-redundant-testing-learn-future?CMP=twt_gu
"In the future, if you want a job, you must be as unlike a machine as
possible: creative, critical and socially skilled. So why are children
being taught to behave like machines?
Children
learn best when teaching aligns with their natural exuberance, energy
and curiosity. So why are they dragooned into rows and made to sit still
while they are stuffed with facts?
We succeed in adulthood through collaboration. So why is collaboration in tests and exams called cheating?
Governments claim to want to reduce the number of children being
excluded from school. So why are their curriculums and tests so narrow
that they alienate any child whose mind does not work in a particular
way?
The best teachers use their character, creativity and inspiration to
trigger children’s instinct to learn. So why are character, creativity
and inspiration suppressed by a stifling regime of micromanagement?
There is, as Graham Brown-Martin
explains in his book Learning {Re}imagined, a common reason for these
perversities. Our schools were designed to produce the workforce
required by 19th-century factories. The desired product was workers who
would sit silently at their benches all day, behaving identically, to
produce identical products, submitting to punishment if they failed to
achieve the requisite standards. Collaboration and critical thinking
were just what the factory owners wished to discourage."
Finland has started to completely revamp their educational methods. Let's look to them for advice.
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
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