According to the generation map, today's the students' are the generation Z (Gen Z). Are there a friends / researchers who can give advice on how they should learn and how professors teach them?
The virtues of students and teachers have to be learnt in other matters of education, for example, in Catholic education, in Religion, in Ethics, etc. They could help to all ones with good advices for teaching, studying, and for the life of each one. They do not make harm to anyone but they build their personalities.
Are there a friends / researchers who can give advice on how they should learn and how professors teach them?
Dear Mr./Pak Asmuni,
referring to the "how" question, in my opinion, one of the essential points in learning and teaching is empathy. Besides the others, my experience demonstrated that this point helps students and teachers for achieving the goals of both activities above mentioned.
It is a tricky situation when we are unable to related to the younger generation . I have taught majorly for generation older than me at one time , yet I find I can relate to younger ones better than older (no offense) ...
1.To teach them , certainly depends on how open-minded we are - this helps to overcome our resistance and hierarchical mind-set
2. Learning is a never ending story , the only chance as teachers we have is to enjoy this while teaching & learning some skills we need to hone (as you mentioned soft !!! )
3. Sorry , if this is a repeat , resistance (of the brain ) is hard to observe and unfortunately the older we get the greater it becomes so , the flexibility and openness of youth and their way of looking at solutions should be considered . The reason is they are not biased and may be to some extent it is a natural way of evaluation unlike ours that is deep-rooted.
You should be able to find some online tests that can be used to inform students of their learning styles and give tips on what to do to ensure that they benefit from the class room experiences.
A teacher would benefit from doing the test too.
I learn from assignments that allow me solve real life problems using the information that I gained as a result of the classroom experience. This includes information that I would have discovered by reading other material because I was inspired by what happened in the class.
The assignment has to be of the kind that requires that I dig deep to exercise my creativity and my problem solving skills. It would allow me to see the connection between the course material and the real world.
Are there a friends / researchers who can give advice on how they should learn and how professors teach them?
Think students' learning should include the following:
Learn by asking more & more questions - this will create more question hooks to hook on new knowledge & other hard earned experience (also prompt you not to repeat their mistakes).
Learn by reflection - ponder over what you'd learned from time to time and brainstorm with peers / others to validate / filter the valuable learning (focus on learning the principles / concepts not merely the visible contents).
Learn by doing or practicing - as shared by Confucius: "I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand."
Learn to be resourceful - learn how to get more information & not relying on information merely from lecturers / professors (learn how to fish for yourself & not relying on fish given by others).
Leverage on technologies to learn more & faster like Internet, websites, repositories, analytics, useful apps from apps stores etc.