Education doesn’t need any more theories.
Education doesn’t need any more assessment methods.
Education doesn’t need any more fanciness.
Education needs better tools.
Education needs more action.
It’s been almost 100 years since John Dewey sparked the pedagogical revolution … and how far have we come?
We reward theories, assessments, and fancy ways to display information. We don’t reward educational tools that bring the real-world into the classroom for students and teachers; tools that make educational potent … that make it fun, exciting, and meaningful.
Would a military general ask his soldiers to invent and build their own weapons? Of course not! Yet we ask our teachers (the ones in the educational trenches day-in and day-out) to do this every day.
We need our experts to talk less, to theorize less, and to assess less. We need our experts to build things, to create cutting-edge learning programs instead of talking about what they would be like! Whether they be games, investigative scenarios, simulations, life-like competitions, role plays, productions, or what have you … we just need less talk about how to change things, and more action.
With reference to the Monty Pythons, we need less PFJ … and more feminists!
Tags: Action Education, Experience, Philosophy, Real World Learning Scenarios
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