A Students Response to The Future of Learning Manifesto
The Future of Learning Manifesto is awesome. It’s pretty much voicing my opinion as a student.
My favorite being point number three, 3.Nobody Cares if you Walked Up Hill Both Ways Barefoot in the Snow and Could Diagram a Sentence, it exemplifies exactly how I feel when teachers find it beneficial to tell us how great they were back when. And to tell us how easy we have it now. Well if it’s so easy tell us how to get through it, and not how you did it a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Preaching your past only helps me catch up on my daydreaming and doodling.
A teacher’s attitude should be, “How can I help you be all you want to be and more.”
Not what you can be because in this world you can be anything, what you want to be is what counts.
The student’s futures are all teachers should be concerned with, not reminiscing.
5. My Memory is Only As Big As My Heart. Otherwise, I’ll Stick with Google. Another amazingly accurate feeling I have. Teachers need to get down from their soapbox from time to time and have a down-to-earth conversation with their students.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T, that’s what you’ll get from a student. I know I’d sock it to ya.
And if it’s good it will be something I’ll remember and think about, so tie it into the lesson, I don’t care just quit it with the Ben Stein lectures and captivate me.
as for the facts, why do we need to memorize?
I have the memory of a goldfish.
If I have an infinite source of information at my fingertips what is the need for memorization? If I ever want to know the answer to that question, I’ll look it up. It does sound kind of dependant but, 1: we live in a modern world and basically depend on technology anyway and 2: seeing as the world is so immediately responsive a computer can recall just as quickly as a memory and usually you’re guaranteed correctness.
It Ain’t About the Technology. It’s About the Story. I cannot stand how people get so hooked on the equipment they end up loosing the true meaning of buying it in the first place. Just because you have the top-notch recorder does not mean you can make the best song.
Instead of trying to keep up with the technology try to keep up with the conversation. With the buzz that’s happening all around us, the growing world, help try to change it, benefit it. Not benefit your self-esteem by getting something brand new and showing it off. I mean if you know what you’re doing and you need the equipment by all means please, fix problems, do good to this world.
The main comment is don’t loose focus, remember what you goal is and please let it be advantageous to us.
The last point made in 10. Nobody Knows the Answer. Get Comfy with the Questions. , is a very important one. You learn best from asking your own questions and thinking about it yourself.
Again, memorization is irrelevant if everything you would ever need to answer is right there for you in the internet world.
My favorite part of this section is the last two lines.
-Are you ready to help me?
-And can I trust you to help me get there?
It is expressing how I feel to a T,
I want to succeed, and I need your help
“Instead of trying to keep up with the technology try to keep up with the conversation. With the buzz that’s happening all around us, the growing world, help try to change it, benefit it.
I like your concept; what would that benefit look like? What would you try to change? How would you begin to be a change agent?
You make a good point in “It ain’t about the technology….” I think you’re completely correct- the best equipment doesn’t always have the best outcome. If you need the best for what you’re doing, then take it… but otherwise, just use what you have if you can.
“as for the facts, why do we need to memorize?
I have the memory of a goldfish.”
That is my absolute favorite line. While I don’t exactly have the brain of a goldfish, per say, I do have a pretty unreliable, short term memory. But that’s not the point. The point is that, regardless of how great my memory is, I shouldn’t have to use it for lame date memorizing because I have the internet! Like in this article, (http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/199710/msg00058.html (especially the third and fourth paragraphs)) I agree with you that the internet is progressing, so teachers and students need to too. And the internet is so quick and easy! Let’s learn something worthwhile… that we WON’T forget in 2 weeks. We’ve got the resources, so why not use ‘em?
Tell a story. Share interesting facts with me to remember, ‘cause I’ve got the internet for the rest. It’s your “5. My Memory is Only As Big As My Heart. Otherwise, I’ll Stick with Google.” in a nutshell.
Creation is benefit. To make something new is progress. Whether it is a piece of art, vaccine for cancer, or an invention that makes life easier, it is progress. Personally I think we all need to change the way we are slowly murdering this planet. The way we have so little concern for the wellbeing of the Earth is frightening. Destroying the ozone, dumping waste in the ocean, and making so little progress towards a more environmental energy source, these are just three of the many things I want to change. There are so many possibilities for me to be a “change agent”, I could simply spread the word, promote alternative resources, or even go start a company that sells affordable solar panels. Anything would be better that what we are doing now. Personally that’s how I would like to benefit this world.
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