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The Learning need of every child differs..🙂
Learning is not a linear process. It’s a spiralling process. In a linear process, you learn and you implement—there’s a fixed start and end. While the spiralling process gives you the opportunity to gradually add new ideas, make connections between the ideas, see what fits, and reject what doesn’t. This goes on and on. It doesn’t matter where you start.
Tetris is an excellent metaphor of how real learning happens. What do you do when the tiles start to fall? You rotate them to see what fits—it involves a lot of trial and error. This activity of continuous rotating and seeing what fits isn’t wasted effort. Solving a maze also leads to a lot of trial and error, and you often hit a lot of dead ends. These are all essential elements for deeper understanding of a subject.
Children do much of their learning in great bursts of passion and enthusiasm. They rarely learn on the slow, steady schedules that schools make for them. They are more likely to be insatiably curious for a while about some particular interest, and to read, write, talk and ask questions about it for hours a day and for days on end. Then suddenly they may drop that interest and turn to something completely different, or even for a while seem to have no interests at all. This usually means that for the time being they have all the information on that subject that they can digest, and need to explore the world in a different way, or perhaps simply get a firmer grip on what they already know.
Success results from a series of experiences that include constructing then applying new knowledge, failure, persistence, commitment, perseverance, adaptation, evolution, and most of all reflection. There are so many images out there that illustrate the concept of success being like an iceberg. In the eyes of many people, success is only what you see or a final product. The reality is that success really is a unique combination of behaviors, skills, and mindset shifts. The recipe is different for everyone as well as the criteria used to determine success. The fact remains though that the path to success is always convoluted.
Education needs some disruptive innovation. We must lend a critical eye to our pedagogy, especially the way we assess and provide feedback to students. It is time for us to work harder to upend the status quo by redefining success in learning. Are you with me?🙂
© Ashish Oberoi
#learning #newwaysoflearning #nonlinear #educateyourself #writcostory
Tetris is an excellent metaphor of how real learning happens. What do you do when the tiles start to fall? You rotate them to see what fits—it involves a lot of trial and error. This activity of continuous rotating and seeing what fits isn’t wasted effort. Solving a maze also leads to a lot of trial and error, and you often hit a lot of dead ends. These are all essential elements for deeper understanding of a subject.
Children do much of their learning in great bursts of passion and enthusiasm. They rarely learn on the slow, steady schedules that schools make for them. They are more likely to be insatiably curious for a while about some particular interest, and to read, write, talk and ask questions about it for hours a day and for days on end. Then suddenly they may drop that interest and turn to something completely different, or even for a while seem to have no interests at all. This usually means that for the time being they have all the information on that subject that they can digest, and need to explore the world in a different way, or perhaps simply get a firmer grip on what they already know.
Success results from a series of experiences that include constructing then applying new knowledge, failure, persistence, commitment, perseverance, adaptation, evolution, and most of all reflection. There are so many images out there that illustrate the concept of success being like an iceberg. In the eyes of many people, success is only what you see or a final product. The reality is that success really is a unique combination of behaviors, skills, and mindset shifts. The recipe is different for everyone as well as the criteria used to determine success. The fact remains though that the path to success is always convoluted.
Education needs some disruptive innovation. We must lend a critical eye to our pedagogy, especially the way we assess and provide feedback to students. It is time for us to work harder to upend the status quo by redefining success in learning. Are you with me?🙂
© Ashish Oberoi
#learning #newwaysoflearning #nonlinear #educateyourself #writcostory
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