lunes, 2 de julio de 2018

PRINCE EA: THE PEOPLE VS. THE SCHOOL SYSTEM

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  1. The video made me think about the saying that goes: "Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I'll understand"

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    1. To give you one example, my partner usually tells me that when he was at school he was a very bad student because he was asked to be still and quiet and teachers talked about topics that didn't interest him at all and made him remember them by heart.
      However, he is smart and clever. He's been running his own business successfully for a long time.

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  2. We totally agree that education needs to change. But the question is how we can change it. Each student should be taught in a different way, but sometimes resources are not enough.

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    1. I completely agree with you. It's true that 'why?' is an important question but knowing 'how?' is something is really interesting to discover

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    2. I totally agree with you...Everyone is asking, or better, demanding on us, as if we had the key for every single worrying issue. The main goal for especially our country shoud be to reduce the number of students in each class first, then offer some extra help to the teachers in situ by means of material and even human resources, and then and only then we might be able to talk about making a difference in educational systems....However, thoses who can help...are they really ready to properly do so?

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    3. I agree with you that we need to change but the question is how we need to try and reach all of our students. We need to keep thinking and asking ourselves questions.

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    4. I totally agree with you! Resources are not enough but, here we are: teachers who keep challenging little by little by being creative and productive whatever the resoures we might have.

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    5. Yes, I think one important point is that different students learn in different ways, so in class we should use a variety of activities so that every student finds their own way of learning and they can feel comfortable.

      There are visual learners, physical learners, logical learners, social learners, and so on. Teachers should try to adapt to every single learner as much as possible. It's rather difficult to put it into practice, though.

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  3. Hi there!
    To begin with, the fact that nothing has changed in regards to education is an overassumption. In fact, a whole new discipline, Pedagogy, has developed and expanded thoughout the century and has boomed in recent years.
    There are, indeed, remnants of traditional teaching that has been deemed to be too narrow-focused for present classroom needs (e.g. initiation-response-feedback sequences).
    However, while it is true that there are many improvements and advances, teachers are not always permeable to this trends and stick to the way they have been taught, especially in regards to their latest educational experience as students: university (which remains especially traditional in terms of teaching).
    All in all, there is a great need to highlight education research and practice in teacher training so that teachers can face their jobs with a wider and more powerful range of tools.

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  4. I totally agree with him when he says that many teachers teach nearly the same way teachers did thirty years ago. Distribution of classes hasn't changed much either and we need to give it a shift, adapt education to modern life. How? I don't have a magic wand, but some things must be changed. It's obvious that we need to include new technologies as we are in a tech-based society and we cannot ignore it. However, what other aspects can we change? We could have an interesting debate around this question.

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    1. Hi Eva!
      I totally agree with you. Innovation can be boosted through ICT, but there is plenty to do in regards to pedagogy advances. I believe that, as teachers, one of the key elements for our success is lifelong learning.
      Therefore, I think that we are going in the right directions :)

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  5. "Balance" is the key. We must always teach taking into account who is in front of us. Thus, we must adapt our lessons (methodology and content) to our students. Then, it's obvious that we must introduce new technologies and other tricks to enhance their creativity and motivation. Nonetheless, we must never forget that learning a language also includes memorization and some other more boring procedures. Remember that memory is also one of humans' abilities.

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    1. You are right when you say that we must always teach (and assess) taking into account the students we have, each of them with their personal needs and motivations. But how can we do that properly with the current ratios and class sizes we have?

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  6. This is the challenge, how to adapt the sillabus to the needs and abilities of our students, but at the same time ensure that they are competent ... we should find different approaches so that every student can feel comfortable and motivated to learn, but I personally find this difficult in crowded classrooms which can easily get out of control ...

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    1. I agree with you in the sense that we've run out of extra help, ratios too high for not enough teachers, and different typologies of students doing the same thing. Materials should be adapted to different level and interests, so it's hard to cope with it.

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  7. Hi everybody! I've already watched this video, and other by him, and he makes us reflect on the issues he speaks about.

    It's pretty clear that our educational system is not perfect and things have to change, but I don't know about the "magical formula". I'm sure technology helps -and will help-, but it's not everything.

    In Ancient Greek, at school they learnt music and physical education and later on some grammar and so on. It is quite curious the importance of these subjects in the current school!

    We should pay attention to the different rythms and way of learning of our students. I guess we try to cater for diversity but we have to improve. The same for the use of technology...

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    1. I totally agree with you. Things have to change, but I think there is no "magical formula" at all we need to keep moving forward. There are many new ways we need to explore.

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    2. It seems as if studying any social science related subject is underestimated these days.
      It happens not only with Music, PE or Art in high schools, but also with languages or History. How many students do we have who want to study a Social Science degree and their parents do no let them?

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  8. I must say I found the video really inspiring. I totally agree with the idea that our school system is old-fashioned and does not fulfill our students' needs. There must be something done in order to help our students feel confident about their skills and give them the chance to learn as much as possible while taking into account their personalities and talents.

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    1. I certainly agree, but we cannot do it on our own. We need an important part of our society to be involved here as well.

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    2. I slightly agree with you, but I don't think that our school system is that bad. What's really bad are the resources intended to it,for intance let's see what happens with the new decree in escola inclusiva. We must find better ways to approach to our students' way of learning.

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  9. This video is a way of making us conscious of the real world we are living in. Everytthing changes very fast, and it is true that most of us, most of teachers, make the lessons very similar as they were done long time ago. It's not logical, as well as not very useful for our students. Changing the way of teaching isn't an easy job because we tend to do what we know, it seems to be more comfortable, but I guess, is this the best way? No. The answer is no but it isn't easy to find the right way. When you try to do something different in class, some students think they are not working enough. We must change our lessons as well as our mind.

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    1. I really agree with you. OUr classes still tend to be teacher-centered instead of student-centered and this is something we should think of. You should give them a more important role and make them think critically, though that's hard work because most of us are not trained to do so. We should design acticivities that make them search for information and avoid having them copy-paste an answer. If we want to create entepreneurs we must listen to what they are eager to learn and adapt to what they demand for.

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  10. I really liked the video, which I had seen before, since it should help all the teachers not to forget the multiple intelligences theory when preparing our lessons but I personally need some help at doing so because some times I don’t find it that easy. I’d love to be able to engage all my learners and boost their skills without spending all my little free time.

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    1. I also don't find it easy to prepare my lessons and I would like to prepare my students better. We must keep working hard.

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    2. Sure!! and finding the way to do it fast would be amazing!!

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  11. I think our students must be encouraged to put all the contents into practice. Ask them to create things, empower them to be critical, environmentally friendly, empathetic, confident enough to improve and change aspects in our society that are not working well and from which all belong to. Education must be significative and motivating in order to make happy and clever future citizens capable of making great things.

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    1. I really agree. The more motivated the students are in class, the more success they will get.

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  12. It is right we should change our way of teaching but we do not always have the right tools to carry it out. Our schools are not provided with enough resources so that not all students have access to a computer when it is needed. However, as teachers, we could try to change how we assess them, not using multiple choice tests to get a grade but not proving they are improving and getting new knowledge.

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  13. I had never seen before the metaphore with the old phone or car and it made me think. It's completely true that if objects, if life, have changed that much in little time, schooling system should also change and adapt to the new century.
    However, we teachers are not the only ones who have to adjust and adapt to new ideas; most students also come to school with a preconceived idea of what they will find, and it is we who have to make them change the concept and help them adapt so our new methodology can work.

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    1. I totally agree. Although I found those metaphors a bit demagogic and misleading. The picture of a class might have not changed a lot, but the education itself has evolved a great deal; the roles and relation between teachers and students have changed as well. More changes must be sought (always, because that is what improvement implies) but we have to acknowledge all the efforts that have been already made.

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  14. From my experience, I guess that the major problem is not only the system but society. Students are not motivated to learn in the schools, not only because of the way of teaching but because of their lack of confidence in its usefulness. Some of their idols "succeeded" bragging about not doing any effort, so they underrate the work and the effort that is needed to learn.

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    1. I completely agree with that. I think we should try to find the way we could make our students feel the need that they should get prepared for their future, the need to have targets in their lives and help them in their learning process according to our society. We should not avoid the culture of effort.

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    2. I see it eye to eye although the question is...what should we do? From my point of view, not just a change of our educational system is required but also a change of our society in terms of our way of thinking; and that's a hard job although not impossible.

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  15. Completely right. In other countries with different ways of teaching have better results than us.

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    1. This is the prove that we need to change things. We must keep on working and asking ourselves more questions.

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    2. We have to analyse why their results are better. Maybe their way of teaching is more dynamic, working with projects, and they surely have less students per classroom.

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  16. I don't believe in masterclasses and I don't want to teach English in the same way as I was taught. It didn't work. So let's take advantage of the new technologies and have fun with them!

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  17. We need to revamp several things so as to be able to reach our students and make a difference.
    First of all, we need to revamp the physical arrangement of the classroom and the furniture.
    I would re-design the classroom so that there are different spaces of work and desks which could facilitate working in groups. I’d like the furniture in the class to be easier to re-arrange. I would like to have a zone of autonomous work, another for collaborative work and a last one for relax with some sofas or cushions.
    Second, we can’t forbid students to use technology in the class since we will be moving against the trends of our society which is, more and more hooked on mobile phones. We need to teach students to use their mobile phones responsibly and wisely. Students do not always carry their laptops to school, but they never forget their mobile phones. I would also like to have classroom ipads in the class to prevent students from using their own phones. I don’t know whre the balance is, but the solution isn’t forbidding mobile phones as in many of our schools.
    Third, we have to get to know our students well and boost their own skills and abilities. They must be able to feel they are creative and think freely.

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    1. I see your point on the furniture. I think we need all that. We need to be able to make our students work differently and have different places and zones to work in class.

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  18. I think that our society is changing faster than our school system. The use of new technologies has contributed a lot to that change making our world more globalized. New technologies can help students to communicate, to be more collaborative,co-operative, competent, self-confident, creative, autonomous, etc for their future. I think teachers and students should walk together in their learning process. The school sytem can’t turn its back on the society (which is our real world), since students are a very important part of it. They are the future. The question is how we can motivate them. Maybe the use of the TICS can help. We should find a way.

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    1. I totally agree with you, change in our society is more dynamic than change in our schools. On the other hand, as you put it, we should should use ICT tools to help our students become collaborative, cooperative, competent, creative, autonomous and responsible future citizens of a globalised world. C. Flores

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  19. Yes, I hink student's confidence in their own skills and abililities is a cornerstone to enhance student development and learning and it's the tasks and activities we give them what is going to help them see that they are capable of achieving whatever they dream of. (Carme V.)

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  20. Completely agree. There aren't enough resources but as teachers we can try to do our best to teach them in a different way that allows them to learn more and better.

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  21. I find this video very inspirational. Unfortunatelly, we are still a long way from what it depicts. If we start the changes now, little by little, we'll get there

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