Hello everybody,
So here is my answer...
How can the concept of “tinkering school” be applied to Chilean public classrooms?
At first glance I thought “How can be kids using harms and dangerous tools?!!”, but then when Tulley mentioned the word “trust” I totally understood why they were doing that.
I strongly believe that trust is the key to have a better learning and teaching environment. According to my work experience in a public school, teachers who don’t trust in their students will have yelling and hard feelings inside the classroom. For instance, I realized that students learnt a model of living at school which is the following: the girls would talk until the teacher would yell at them; otherwise, you could be at least 20 minutes trying to make them quite. Then, when it comes to the lesson plan, it will be a real mess because the teachers have this misconception of students with no brains to think. All this is due to the lack of participation during the lessons. I think that seems to be pretty obvious for me, but not for them, because they are no longer interested in their students’ lives. They see them as a bad generation, and they have prejudices towards them.
So, if we could have the principle of trust, not just in the use of dangerous tools, but in the use of computers, in their autonomy, in their word and believe on them, they will see that failures can be overcome. Teachers need to be guiders, helpers but not the bad guys of the movie.
Have a nice day,
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Hi,
ReplyDeleteYou are right when you say that trust is the key to have a better learning. I believe that trust is the key in order to apply this concept of tinkering school in our reality.
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So here is my answer...
ReplyDeleteHow can the concept of “tinkering school” be applied to Chilean public classrooms?
At first glance I thought “How can kids be using harmful and dangerous tools?!!”, but then when Tulley mentioned the word “trust” I totally understood why they were doing that.
I strongly believe that trust is the key to having a better learning and teaching environment. According to my work experience in a public school, teachers who don’t trust their students will have yelling and ?? feelings inside the classroom. For instance, I realized that students learnt a model of living at school which is the following: the girls would talk until the teacher would yell at them; otherwise, you could be at least 20 minutes trying to make them quite. Then, when it comes to the lesson plan, it will be a real mess because the teachers have this misconception of students with no brains to think. All this is due to the lack of participation during the lessons. I think that seems to be pretty obvious for me, but not for them because they are no longer interested in their students’ lives. They see them as a bad generation, and they have prejudices towards them.
So, if we could have the principle of trust, not with just the use of dangerous tools, but with the use of computers, in their autonomy, in their work and believe in them, they will see that failures can be overcome. Teachers need to be guiders, helpers but not the bad guys of the movie.
Have a nice day,
(good point!)