Video Reaction

First of all, I would like to talk about the video Educational Change Challenge The prologue “Who seriously believes that locking 25 students in a small room with one adults for several hours a day is a best way for them to be educated?” intrigued me to watch this video several times. As an educator, I’m ashamed that I barely think of this question. On the one hand, however, I did think of “If students in Taiwan, my hometown, could choose what they want and are required to learn during high school, wouldn’t that be great?” On the other hand, the video Pay attention referred to Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences reminds me that individual differences do exit. Everyone has his learning styles. From this two concepts, I think that educators should bear in mind that the best way for one to learn might be the worst way for another, that is, everyone has his suitable way of learning and it may varies from time to time as well.  For example, I sometimes want to study alone but sometimes want to stay with others, and when I was in high school, I did math in the morning, but others might like to do that in the afternoon.

At the same time, in Educational Change Challenge stated that the greatest hurdle in education reform is that society doesn’t have a clear vision of what school is for. I have a question that how do TADO, this video maker, define what school is for. Schooling is not a must, but leaning is a must, and school is the major place that provides any kind of learning.  My philosophy of what school is “It’s a place that offers students acquire knowledge in a systematic way, learn how to learn and learn to deal with people.”  I think the most important thing for students in school is to learn how to learn, accordingly, as long as they know how to learn, even they’re not at school, they would learn. In this way, they become the lifelong learners, which is also a central concept advocated by Taiwan’s Ministry of Education.  In terms of lifelong learners, in the videos Pay attention and A vision of k-12 Students Today, both of them mentioned WWW, which stands for whatever, whenever, and wherever; I love this new interpretation a lot. Lifelong learning takes place anytime and everywhere in the world.  

In addition, I totally agree with the idea of “understand students’ culture” in the video of in Educational Change Challenge. It is human nature that people choose to pay attention to what they like, especially developing children, the more they like the teacher, the more they want to learn from this teacher. Therefore, understanding students’ culture may be the way to catch up on what’s in students’ mind.

In conclusion, the video Pay attention pointed out the key objectives of education by Bloom’s cognitive taxonomy which creates is the last domain of it. “These teens were born into a digital world where they expect to be able to create, consume, remix, and share material with other.”  The basic amazing thing of this digital world is that we could share and know the information immediately from all over the world. In respond to Multiple Intelligences, I personally think that people could benefit from the digital world, and some people do definitely achieve the level of creation by technology but there are also others achieve creation in other forms such as drawing and dancing. I think we should bear in mind that there are various ways of learning, and using digital media is just one of them. However, digital media could possibly be the most popular way of leaning.  

This image is fabulous. How amazing of its' creativity to combine Bloom’s  cognitive taxonomy with this digital world.