I'd rather call it utopian imagination which is in fact an escapism in front of the hardships in the educational settings.When the teachers do not get adequate salaries, when they are assigned heavy loads, when they are managed by despots, and when they are given weak students in terms of knowledge & ethics... then the teachers are trained to use utopian imagination(!) which includes, e.g. that the status quo is not static & is bound to change for the better. When? One of my colleagues said it bluntly (Well, the first 40 years of teaching are difficult tasks & then things will ease more after that)! :)
Let’s start with the famous quotation “Our goal is to transform how children learn, what they learn, who they learn from. Mitchel Resnick, A Media Lab for Kids (from Resnick, M. A Media Lab for Kids: $27 Million from Isao Okawa Creates Center for Future Children at MIT, MIT News, November 18, 1998).”
Therefore, the goal, of all us (teachers, professors, lecturers, educators and researchers), have to be to transform how children learn, what they learn, who they learn from, to reach the Utopian Summerville way of learning and teaching… Yes we need the changes in all kind of educational institutions!
Let me add something. Imagine that your Learning/Teaching system guides (and/or allow) you through the design of such example for learning division. Simply because a lot of teacher do not understand what is constructivist approach. Help teacher (or eLearning lesson designer) with some advice, like “Why do not use nice lady who is giving 16 apples to 4 kids”. The lady gives them one apple, then another one, etc. Then you repeat simulation with some breaks, and ask your students after “first round”: “How many apples left our lady?”, “How did you come to that?” etc.
My "new" question is: Why is Objectivism used in Blended Learning, instead of Constructivist approaches? And: "Is Teaching an Art?"
I mean, do we all forgot teachers, and concentrate to learners (students)?
I'd rather call it utopian imagination which is in fact an escapism in front of the hardships in the educational settings.When the teachers do not get adequate salaries, when they are assigned heavy loads, when they are managed by despots, and when they are given weak students in terms of knowledge & ethics... then the teachers are trained to use utopian imagination(!) which includes, e.g. that the status quo is not static & is bound to change for the better. When? One of my colleagues said it bluntly (Well, the first 40 years of teaching are difficult tasks & then things will ease more after that)! :)
Ljubomir Jerinic and Dr. Nizar Matar, thank you for your quick and interesting answers.
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