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The document discusses how learning is best achieved through reflection on meaningful experiences and how teaching has evolved from simply transmitting information to guiding students in discovering answers themselves. It argues that teachers today must stay ahead by creating a world where sharing information is rewarding and imagination is encouraged in order to effectively educate students with different needs in the digital age.
The document discusses how learning is best achieved through reflection on meaningful experiences and how teaching has evolved from simply transmitting information to guiding students in discovering answers themselves. It argues that teachers today must stay ahead by creating a world where sharing information is rewarding and imagination is encouraged in order to effectively educate students with different needs in the digital age.
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The document discusses how learning is best achieved through reflection on meaningful experiences and how teaching has evolved from simply transmitting information to guiding students in discovering answers themselves. It argues that teachers today must stay ahead by creating a world where sharing information is rewarding and imagination is encouraged in order to effectively educate students with different needs in the digital age.
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“Teaching today is being a step ahead and creating that
world where exchange of information is gratifying and imagination is rewarded...”
Learning and Teaching currences so that they themselves find the
meaning and significance in every event in May 28th, 2011 their school’s curriculum. Teaching students to Learning for me is the exercise that we as hu- repeat a series of events, dates and random in- man beings achieve after reflecting on experi- formation has proven to be deficient in the ences, that are either of meaningful, academic, past, but provides us with enough experience spiritual, emotional, or physical nature. We to reflect from it for the future. choose to take steps in the world and each one of those events teaches us something about Being a teacher and teaching is no longer what ourselves, about others, about the world that it was to the old school, it has evolved to guid- surrounds us or about the complexity and un- ance, leadership; the teacher has become and certainty of life. Every decision we make car- observer that draws the path but watches their ries a consequence that either positive or nega- students reach to conclusions, to solutions, and tive will provide us with a discovery of the to deductions. Teachers nowadays must be world around us. open, kind, strict, creative, researchers and dreamers; to teach your students to find their Answer A or B, go to school or not, to study or own answers you yourself as the authority must to play, to go out with this man or not; these be able to find it, to be a constant pirate in the are examples of choices that are presented to hunt for knowledge, therefore by example you us in the everyday interactions with our sur- can motivate and request the same from your roundings and whether we go with one deci- students. sion or the other in many cases is influenced by the previous knowledge we have, prior experi- Students these days have different needs, less ences, that have taught us about the outcomes. attention spam and more information available How does this apply to academic learning? to them. How can we as teachers provide Easy, you can tell a student do not run in the them with something they can learn them- hall because you will fall, but unless that stu- selves on the internet? Simple, we provide an dent has seen it himself or experienced it him- experience which they can not obtain any- self, he/she will never grasp the meaning of where else. In other words, teaching today is what your intentions, nor message is. No one being a step ahead and creating that world learns living through someone else’s eyes, the where exchange of information is gratifying process of reflexion must exist in order to be and imagination is rewarded. meaningful learning. Learning these days must be a series of experi- ences, the school must change from threaten- ing students to leading them to the right oc-
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