Ramirez, A. (2013, April 2). Edutopia: Passion-based learning. Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/blog/passion-based-learning-ainissa-ramirez?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=pos&utm_campaign=blog-passionbasedlearning
The author writes that teachers bring "passion" to the topic they present and to the format of the presentation - with the student's perspective in mind. "Find out what each child is innately passionately about. Be an instructor that exudes passion for the topic, and infect your students with that excitement. .. With patience." She cautions that doing so means becoming vulnerable to learning alongside the student so that students also risk being as vulnerable to learning for themselves.
Mind/Shift. If robots run the world, what should students learn? Retrieved from http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/04/if-robots-will-run-the-world-what-should-students-learn/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29
The article describes a future of creative artificial intelligence that challenges both human creativity and essence of humanity. It presents the visions for educational reform of Charles Fadel, founder of Center for Curriculum Redesign, and R. Keith Sawyer, professor of education and psychology at St. Louis’ Washington University. Fadel calls for the educational focus on learning how to learn. Sawyer envisions a constructionist model where students work collaboratively to solve real-world problems and “build new knowledge in new situations.” Both are constructivist outlooks which contrasts traditional educational practices.
NDT Resource Center. (n.d.). Teaching resources: Classroom tips – Teaching with the constructivist learning theory. Retrieved from http://www.ndt-ed.org/TeachingResources/ClassroomTips/Constructivist%20_Learning.htm
The page describes the traditional classroom and the learning diversity among students, teaching and learning modes, and factors which affect how students learn. It suggests how teachers can integrate the constructivist learning theory into their teaching practice. The source of information is from J. Brooks and M. Brooks’ In Search of Understanding: The Case for Constructivist Classroooms. The site is for nondestructive testing NDT related to industrial materials but includes an Education component for teachers and students focusing studies on NDT.
YouTube. (2007, May 14) Evelyn Glennie: How to truly listen [video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU3V6zNER4g
Percussionist Evelyn Glennie inspires the audience into the art of listening, using various percussion instruments to show how mechanical listening contrasts with mindful listening.
YouTube. (2010, May 24). Sir ken robinson: Bring on the learning revolution![video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9LelXa3U_I
Sir Ken Robinson presents an inspirational talk about how learning must change to capture the energy, spirit, and passion within the learner. He recommends a fundamental change in the basis of the learning structure – from a “mechanical process” to an “organic process,” using the analogy from agriculture.
From Sir Ken Robinson
Human resources are often buried deep. … You have to create circumstances where they show themselves.
Human communities depend on a diversity of talent.
Fast food education, Jamie Oliver
I think so many people are opting out of education is because it doesn’t feed their spirit. It doesn’t feed their energy or their passion. So I think we have to change metaphors. We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education– a manufacturing model which is based on linearity and conformity and matching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process. It’s an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is, like a farmer, create the conditions under which they can flourish. … It’s about customizing to your circumstances, and personalizing education to people you’re actually teaching. … [P]eople develop their own solutions but with external support based on a personalized curriculum.
From Charles Fadel
Education has to focus on learning how to learn – metacognition.