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“If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
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RE: “If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
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“If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
Quote:If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.
Or allow them to choose to learn from someone else who does teach the way they learn.
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RE: “If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
(03-07-2016 02:08 PM)TheCancer Wrote: The theory of learning styles is based on pseudoscience
http://www.skeptic.com/insight/the-myth-...ng-styles/
Question - can the effectiveness of learning really be quantified? Presumably this was measured by means of a test, which is skewable by the student just being shit at testing or having something bad happen that day.
And is knowledge transmission efficiency really all we're after here? Forcing a child to learn something in a way they hate (regardless of effectiveness or lack thereof) mostly just teaches them that learning sucks and isn't worth their time, and that's immesurably more damage than a few misremembered facts.
Hello, traveler.
This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.
Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"
Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.
People are allowed to change their views.
Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.
If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.
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RE: “If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the w
I'm just saying that all that stuff about being a visual, audio, or kinesthetic learner isn't backed up by any credible scientific data. I'm not making any further extensions as to how that should impact how teachers approach teaching.
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RE: “If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
(03-08-2016 07:31 AM)TheCancer Wrote: I'm just saying that all that stuff about being a visual, audio, or kinesthetic learner isn't backed up by any credible scientific data. I'm not making any further extensions as to how that should impact how teachers approach teaching.
Yah. I heard they stopped talking about it so much because it lacked scientific credibility. It's mostly considered aspects of learning in the sense you use all three and are capable of honing your skills in all three as necessary. Thus you can't be mostly a visual learned because you're capable of being an audio and kinesthetic learned.
Or something like that. I'd have to go check more details.
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RE: “If a child can't leach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
People make a fortune selling pseudoscientific garbage to school districts. Sometimes I think I should get in on it, to tell the truth.
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“If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
Said pseudoscience pretty much makes it into the curriculum. Reminds me a little bit of the "baby language" theory for language classes...
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“If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
Amazing how certain quotes still hold up today huh? And as for the pseudoscience it just makes life hard, except for the people selling it of course….. My dad's a teacher and he absolutely hated when his school brought in a new system. You would walk around and stand in a classroom for like a minute and that counted as observing the class.
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ch, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
I appreciate how your dad feels.
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RE: “If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
Pff, clearly we just need to teach children the way we teach so they can learn the correct way to learn, then once we have taught them the correct way of learning, they can go on to learn further teachings.
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“If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
I never understood that. Learning must be painful.
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RE: “If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
Well, it doesn't have to be, if it was always that way, people would mostly likely see no point in it, since many of us fear pain.
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RE: “If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
(03-08-2016 12:12 PM)TheCancer Wrote: People make a fortune selling pseudoscientific garbage to school districts. Sometimes I think I should get in on it, to tell the truth.
I found these guys when wikipedia surfing.
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RE: “If a child can't leach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Cen...l-Officers
"I especially want to recognize your work in establishing Common Core State Standards. Let me extend special congratulations to Alabama, which just became the forty-first state to adopt the Common Core. The Common Core builds a foundation for defining and measuring excellence – and that will give traction to many reforms that follow."
-Bill Gates
I'm so sick of Bill Gates and his baloney "reforms". If that quote doesn't put it into focus how creepy he is I don't know what will. He makes like he's giving out these huge philanthropic donations but they're really investments into the oligarchical nature of the education industry.
Btw, if it's not clear, he's speaking to that weird creepy organization you linked to.
"Our Promise
Our promise is to lead chiefs and their state education agencies by focusing on state-driven leverage points that they are uniquely positioned to address and increasing their capacity to produce students ready to succeed as productive members of society.
- See more at: http://www.ccsso.org/Who_We_Are.html#sth...A2WM2.dpuf
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OK freakazoids.
When your Wiki page reads EXACTLY line your official web page you're officially creepy.
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“If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
The education system is just another front for these people. Propose bullshit "reforms" through PACs and you'll get them.
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