Again, here is a video with some heavy concepts. I will blog more about this later. However, I have a couple of thoughts...
Yesterday, as I was working on a lesson, I came across a video of a little girl hearing for the first time. At first she was amazed that she was able to hear. She said, "I sound funny when I talk!". Then she began to break into tears - of joy - because she realized she could finally hear. The entire video was a real moment and was captured on video in the doctor's office by her parents, I think. It was really touching. What hit me personally is the fact that I might teach someone, someday, who will invent these miracles of science that will help people all over the world. I don't know what this little girl's procedure was but the out come was that she could hear and somebody had to invent that procedure or hearing aid...and at one time that person was a student with a teacher. I am looking at the big picture here. We need to continually encourage innovation at as many levels possible in our classrooms. These are the habits and the mindsets that our students will have for the rest of their lives. Instead of a reaction of "no, that will never work or that just does't fit in the program", let us be the kind of educators who say, "yes, why don't you try that and we'll see what happens". Let there be innovators in the classroom, not imitators.
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Garth
12/4/2012 09:33:34 pm
Love Sir Ken
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Mike
12/6/2012 03:06:17 pm
"we should raise standards...we should, why would you lower them???" Ha, ha! I love it when people use logic to prove a point!
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elise muhl
6/11/2013 06:44:51 am
Honestly, i think we should just let teachers be teachers, no administrators and a million people telling you how to teach. I sit in the classroom watching as some of my teachers try desperately to squeeze in things that THEY think are important. Maybe it's most important to step out of the boundaries that are so strictly set for us. Sometimes I wonder who really IS teaching us when all we do is read out of the book and do the rest for homework. Hmmmm...
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Mike
6/11/2013 02:28:05 pm
Elise! What a great response! I'll try to answer that comment in my next blog!! :))
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