Ken Robinson on his video "Changing Education Paradigms" talk about some educational problems that we are dealing with in today´s world. He challenges educational paradigms with which many of us have grown, he also shows us that the times are different and undergoing constant changes. Because of that, he urges us to innovate in terms of education, transforming education from a 19th century industrial model into a 21st century.
According to Robinson, the first problem that we can find is the purpose of education showing to children because getting a title is not a guarantee of success. As a teachers and parents we should explain to children that they should study for knowing and discovering about what they want to do in the future. The point is how they will know their likes, their interests if they do not have the knowledge of different areas, such as math, arts, language, etc. they should be aware of their alternatives to choose the best for their lives.
In concordance with Robinson, the major problem is that the current education system was designed, conceived and structured to a different age. We have to transform and innovate it. It can not continue to teach with books and blackboards because children are not interested in boring stuff. Everything is evolving and education should not be left behind. Along with this problem can be added the attentional deficits experienced by children today and is caused by the same, the boring way of teaching. We can start investigating what they are interested with, as well are the ITCs. It is a fact there is no such thing as an epidemic of attention deficit. It false illness is pretended to cover their fault causing children are medicated and passing through the school process without realizing it. But the truth is that they have not changed the tendency of teaching and for that reason they are distracted.
To conclude, as Ken says in his video. We must think differently about the human capacity, we have to overcome the old conception, on the academic and nonacademic, abstract, theoretical, vocational, and see that it is a myth. As future teachers, we should become researchers and our task will be to use the context in which our future students will live by seeking the particularity because not all students learn in the same way. In addition, we will have to discover how make the students can learn through the things that they are interested, from my point of view, that would be a biggest change for education system.
I agree with you Maria Jose. I think that we as future teachers need to think different and try to improve our educational system.It can be good to use the method of particularity, because this method seeks to improve the individual capacities of a determined group. Additionally, I think that sociocultural theory must to be included, because we need to add the particular characteristic of the city or country in which we are living or working. It is very necessary to use the student´s interest into the learning process, and make them to realize about their capacities.
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