Teaching and Learning: Dumbing Us Down (Monday Labor Day & Tuesday)

 

 

 Part I

 

WARM UP

 

Activity

Class begins with music and warm up. Students are invited to get on their feet, get away from their desks and follow the professor's muscle groups - isolation warm up. 

In previous classes, we added conscious breathing at the end of the warm up,  self-affirmations and meditation.

 Question 1

Is this warm up useful? Post your answer on Discussion Board.

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Part II 

 

BOOK REVIEW

 Today we will introduce Jon Taylor Gato's work on education. Please, watch the video below and move the discussion forward by answering to  the following questions:



Book Review: Dumbing Us Down


Question 2

What do you think about Gato's ideas as expressed  in this review?
 
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Activity
Students Give Feedback One by One

Comments

  1. AnonymousSeptember 7, 2021 at 7:37 AM

    Q1:Useful, can let the students relieve fatigue mind clear, but also can close the distance between teachers and students.

    Q2:After watching this video, I think what he advocates is alternative education. But I think what he said is too limited. Without community life, one cannot be a whole person. You can't love people you don't know and act local at the same time. Community life is the link between past, present and future.

    Solitude is an important lesson in what children need to learn to become a whole person. It gives them the space and time they need to develop themselves. People are not machines. People are active and self-fulfilling, while machines just follow orders.

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