Friday, November 20, 2009

tinkering schools

I think we do not have this kind of school in our country. We (Chilean) should feel ashamed about this.
In Chile teachers are just concerned about accomplishes the set curriculum and not to encourages their students to be creative and enjoy what they are doing.
In some school when a kid tries to do something new, creative, out of what was the teacher were expecting. They are punished because that was not what the teacher asked to do. I feel that, what this kind of attitude does is to kill student’s creativity and a teacher should not do that. They encourage their students to be creative
If we think about how to apply this school ideal in our school, first we need to change peoples mind about “playing time” and "children’s ideas", I mean, everybody is likely to think that what children do when they are playing is something useless or sometimes adults tend to misjudges children ideas because their age. But after we saw the video, we could tell how wrong these ideas are.
Children imagination is unlimited and they do not get easily frustrated like adults do. They try several times to accomplish what they want to do and they put their best effort to do it.
I think we should use these qualities and use them at the school activities, develop activities such as drawing what comes to your mind with the word "world" and let them explain what they drew and let them develop those ideas. We could get amazed by their ideas.

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