Hi, great lesson! Again I've learned something new. It just makes me feel so good to learn something new every day. Today I learned to create my own wiki space and upload files onto it. Also I watched how Jean demonstrated how to create our wordel as well as video. I think I will learn to do that by my own for my students in the near future. Oh, the video is very enlightening! Education is self-organizing; when children have interests, education happens. Kids are always curious and they are so concentrated on what they are interested in. You can never imagine how much they can achieve. Kids have unlimited potential and actually they just don't need teachers. They can cooperate to make miracles. Just believe in them and give them enough freedom! I will persuade my husband to give his ipad to my 5 year old son. I think my little son can make good use of it. We just worry that he is addicted into playing games. Now I've changed my idea!
http://angelaxiao.wikispaces.com/
I enjoyed the video, too! It's true... most children have a natural curiousity and want to learn. It's a shame when the educational system takes that away from them.
ReplyDeleteBrandee,thank you for your comment. Maybe we can do nothing to change the educatioanal system and it does take time to change. But at least, we could try to protect and nurture that curiosity of our own kids. In the future,when you have kids of your own, I am sure you can do it!
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