Monday, July 18, 2016

The Future of Learning

The definition of education is a process of inviting truth and possibility, of encouraging and giving time to discovery. In order to invite truth and possibility into the lives of students the way teachers engage them needs to be discussed and analyzed. Teachers can engage with students and encourage them to discover knowledge simultaneously this creates an interactive environment where the need for information is so great the student wont be satisfied until the answer is reached.
In order to attain this yearning for education, the system needs to be as adaptive as the students themselves.  The process in which the educational system views students scores needs to be adjusted, with technology programs can be designed to adapt to the different learning protocols to properly fit the students behaviors and techniques. 
 Each students learning ability's is as different as their personality's, in order to utilize the full potential of the student programs can be initiated to custom fit their learning capability's and in turn take that information and evolve it for other students.  Student learn in different styles they maybe visual(spatial),aural(auditory) verbal(linguistic)Physical(Kinetic)Solitary(intrapersonal)social(interpersonal) and logical(mathematical). All of these affect and impede on the cognitive learning ability for students and the only way we change this is by adapting to new ideas that generate positive reinforcement. We as individuals need to realize that the numbers we use today for students and their grades do not show the capability's or possibility's that the student can attain. Our whole thought process on student in the class room needs to be revamped in order have students fully engaged in every subject they learn. Many times students are prepared for whats on the test instead of preparing for what might be on the test. Everyday of our lives we never encounter what we expect, we have an idea of what might happen but we don't know for sure. The same theory can be applied to educating students in ways that promote different learning patterns as well as them adapting and engaging in change. Humans are the only animal in the world that can adapt to any environment, we can use this attribute and apply it to our educational system. Seth Godin said in the video, "Revolutions destroy the perfect, and enable the impossible".


1 comment:

  1. Hi Richard,
    What an amazing world this would be if the educational system you describe, and which the video outlined, were to become reality. Imagining a world of engaged students, enthralled by the learning process, is a wonderful thing. And when pupils are interested in learning, they aren’t discipline problems for their teachers. Thus, one of the major difficulties of teaching would be a welcome casualty of the improved educational system.
    Susan

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