Education is too often about teaching and not enough about learning
Monday, November 19, 2007
Smart Schools
“Educators do not argue that education is about accumulating large repertoires of facts and routines. But this is overwhelmingly what happens in classrooms, where actions speak louder than words.” (Professor David Perkins, 1993)
Education is not just memorising facts and information, it is learning for yourself ways to put your information into your own words. You need develope thinking strategies that work for yourself. If we just accept every strategy that is put before us we will not likely understand them.
I think that by learning a subject to a song or something similar you can rememeber a section of the song adn the part of information corresponding to it.
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Education is not just memorising facts and information, it is learning for yourself ways to put your information into your own words. You need develope thinking strategies that work for yourself. If we just accept every strategy that is put before us we will not likely understand them.
I think that by learning a subject to a song or something similar you can rememeber a section of the song adn the part of information corresponding to it.
Memory is of course not necessarily the same thing as understanding/intelligence.
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