FEB. 4, 2015
Thought provoking video, Age 6 and Applying to College posted article.
“What is college? Get that thought into their heads. Even though they’re 6 years old, they can think about that until they get to high school and the process becomes real”
This New York Times article brought to mind a post from this blog in which I quoted a condescending educator, perturbed by learning from play,“young students don’t want to learn, they want to play, and presentations like the one I saw today essentially seem to be saying that we need to support this play (masked as educational needs) as much as possible in order to try to get some learning in there.” (see Instructor Attitudes and Biases)
Are we undermining the robust worth and value of play and learning? Our government and schools are in such a hurry to retire seasoned teachers, our schools are losing valuable wisdom and common sense experience. Are they still teaching the value of play and learning in our Colleges of Education? Piaget?
Filed under: Web 2.0 in Education Tagged: play, stressed learner 
