Upon reflection after viewing the three videos posted, I have two main questions: How in the world has our educational system been stuck in an industrial model for so long despite research and theorists pointing out that it's not all a progressive pedagogy and is detrimental? Why in the world are we, the educational system at large, so reluctant to change?
I don't know about the rest of our group, but I was literally sick watching the second video. It reminded me of all the reasons why I have hated school my whole life: the memorizing discrete facts, retelling, transfer of information, time-based learning, textbook-centered, learning passively, working in isolation, authority above students, listen to me teaching, no freedom for students, discipline problems, along with a fragmented unrelated curriculum, etc. No one would want to learn this way and having the two centuries' pedagogies juxtaposed really made me wonder, what is so hard about making these changes?
I would think that by now bureaucracies and politics would have caught up to our younger generations' learning needs. The last video was refreshing in that it shows we are making progress and changes are occurring. We just need to be better organized in sharing our ideas and successes with one another so that all of our schools can change at a faster rate.
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