Sugatra Mitra presents a model for education that I absolutely love — present students with a problem to solve, a practical challenge that demands to be solved, and then provide them the resources that they need to learn for themselves the skills required to solve the problem. What a great idea–put the students in charge of their own skills development! I question, though, how effective that would be in certain situations. Can a student become a skilled communicator without feedback and refinement? Can a kid learn organically the relationship between…
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Why I Teach
It’s more complicated than this. Of course it’s more complicated than this. But if I had to boil it down, to point to something pithy and profound, something that’s as much a starting point as it is a mission statement, this is it. Paddle your own canoe, folks. Trevor