Lecture One: Introductions - part of Michael Wesch's course @KSU. The questions he asks his students here are worth a consideration.
"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all."
- Thomas Szasz, 1973
"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all."
- Thomas Szasz, 1973
Lecture One: Introductions - part of Michael Wesch's course @KSU. The questions he asks his students here are worth a consideration.
"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all."
- Thomas Szasz, 1973
7.) Drop the filters on your internet service. Period. The most simple
thing you can do in your school that can have the greatest impact on
student learning. Give kids resources. Teach them to use them properly.
Hold them accountable when they don't.
6.) Regularly meet and question students about what they are learning
from the people they have contact with. "Who are you reading? Why? What
are you learning from them? What kind of information are you missing?
What do you need to know that you don't?"
7.) Drop the filters on your internet service. Period. The most simple thing you can do in your school that can have the greatest impact on student learning. Give kids resources. Teach them to use them properly. Hold them accountable when they don't.