Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Learning to Learn

      Education is constantly changing. How we learn is changing almost as fast as what we learn. Educators need to be well informed in more ways than one. What a person studying to be a teacher may not realize is that in college, while they are learning how to educate their future students, they will have to unlearn all of the methods that they grew to know. With technology in the classrooms always growing and changing, it is impossible to keep the same techniques going. Luckily, there are steps you can take to learn new teaching techniques and technology skills.
     With so much going on in the world of education technology, it may seem hard to fully understand how much there is to know, unlearn, and then relearn again. Our book, The Connected Educator, mentions steps in knowledge that every teacher must take.
Knowledge for, in, and of practice are crucial to educators. Knowledge for practice refers to traditional college instruction on how to teach in the classroom. Knowledge in practice refers to trying new methods and seeing if they work for education or not and knowledge of practice refers to teachers going technologically out of their comfort zone and work collaboratively with other teachers via e-mail or especially social media to get new ideas and skills that they can pass on to their own students. Unlearning old skills and constantly relearning new may seem like a huge challenge but with collaborative thinking on social medias I believe it can be well achieved.

1 comment:

  1. I agree with you, unlearning and relearning can be achieved if the teacher and student put in the effort.

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