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| Is there a way to make education 'fun' for kids/teens? | |
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| * Mitas | Sep 8 2017, 11:10 AM Post #1 |
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It seems like there are many people who in later life wish they had tried harder at school and earned better grades and I think a massive part of that is that most kids just don't enjoy school. Obviously 'fun' is subjective, but it seems that the majority of kids/teens dislike school (or school- & homework more specifically) to varying degrees. Do you think this is an inevitability based on the ages of pupils? Kids are kids; it's (mostly) going to be hard to get them to enjoy learning when they'd much rather be laughing and joking with friends or doing something 'fun'. Or do you think that the current education system is flawed in a way that can be repaired? Is there a better way to present education to kids that would resonate with them more and have them actually enjoying the lessons and work they take part in? |
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| Rockman | Sep 8 2017, 12:57 PM Post #2 |
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I believe that giving an easy application to the learning exercise is the best way for any person to understand the material. "Teaching to the test" as they say, only benefits a small percentage of people who are capable of remembering small pieces of information in large quantities. These people are typically doctors. Healthcare professions are heavily dependent on case studies and "evidence based practice" mean that if you remember a time a solution worked for a patient, the same solution might work for yours. This career is dependent of regurgitation of information. If you're teaching a kid how to code, you don't just make them blast through a book and expect every student to learn it. Instead, give them a problem to solve in groups and have them come up with a solution with real results. It requires a bit more hand holding as you're not teaching straight out of a book, instead you're giving them clues to the solution. That's the other problem. Teachers in the US especially are paid very little, so the effort exerted by each one is relative to the amount they are getting paid whether intentionally or otherwise. Mix that with what the school requires you to do to get the students through the year, and you're looking at books teaching kids, not actual learning environments. Wife is a teacher, and she explains that the hardest thing to watch are the kids who clearly learn better when given hands-on exercises, struggle through paper work that has no real impact or result to real life. This is why she was excited this year when they told her she'd be only teaching language arts to 3rd graders. Learning in this sense gives the kids empowerment to pursue what they enjoy and learn at the same time. So we went to the half price book store and bought hundreds of dollars of books of every genre imaginable for their reading level and spent 2 weekends building shelves and painting them/ organizing the books by genre. The minecraft kids go and read minecraft books. The Nancy Drew girls go and read their mystery books. The "Darker's personality" kids look at their amphibian and reptile books. When you give kids an outlet to pursue what they enjoy, the learning process comes naturally. They will end up learning how to read those books through the enjoyment. Yes there are still kids who will completely excel at test taking and remembering things off a paper, but this method helps every student. Schools in the US are flawed beyond repair. It has come to the point where if you don't attend college after primary school, you're challenged to find a career where you can excel past the piece of paper. Many teachers are trying to change that, but the States are more worried about the money than whether or not we have a low literacy rate. |
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| + Ssj3vegito96 | Sep 8 2017, 03:06 PM Post #3 |
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Like Rockman said the school system is flawed because it focuses too much on standardized testing and doesn't build on kids' creativity. There are literally studies that prove that kids' creativity has gone down drastically in the past 20 or so years What this means is that the kids who want to be creative don't get to live up to their potential and they end up not succeeding in school This is bad because not only does it make school not enjoyable but without creativity society can't move forward Creativity is what improves society. If someone wants to be able to stand out then they need to be able to apply what they know and come up with ways to apply solve problems on their own. These are the people who shape society. And without letting them thrive we cant make progress as a whole Edited by Ssj3vegito96, Sep 8 2017, 03:17 PM.
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| + Steve | Sep 8 2017, 07:57 PM Post #4 |
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I think it's just too much for kids, they get a stupid amount of work to do and it in no way prepares them for the real world because in what universe are you regularly using Maths, Physics, English, French, Graphic Design, Geography, History, Admin and Chemistry every other day? And that's not even counting each topic covered within those subjects. Some of those obviously you will be using and you may specialize in some of those later in life but kids have to have all of them on their minds all the time for school, with no break due to the amount of homework they get for every one of those subjects. It's pretty daft, being so stressed out undoubtedly makes kids feel lost on what the hell they want to do. I think it would be wise to cut down the work load BUT introduce each of these subjects sooner. In my High School at least we have about 2 years to pick between all those subjects I mentioned and more and that's hardly enough time for a hormonal teenager to really know where they want to go with their lives. Shouldn't wait until high school to dump all that on kids, a more structured primary school that would figure out what each child excels at and likes to do would be much better, then they could go in to higher education picking what they want to do or want to improve in. Up until high school it's all pretty lax and fun aside from the occasional math or English test, I'm sure 8 year olds and whatnot could grasp things like Geography and Admin fairly well. |
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| * Light | Sep 8 2017, 08:20 PM Post #5 |
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In primary school I felt my passions were better dealt with, I used to love history and my teacher would let me choose different time periods to research and write about. In Secondary school (high school) we were forced to learn about Welsh history mainly (and in Welsh), and they chose the most boring incidents (Merched Beca came up a lot) so I ended up detesting what was once my favourite subject and dropped it. This is all anecdotal of course, but rather than cultivating interests and passions, the curriculum seemed to kill that. |
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| Darker | Sep 9 2017, 01:36 AM Post #6 |
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I think this is a good example of something that is both fun and educational. |
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| + Ssj3vegito96 | Sep 9 2017, 05:11 PM Post #7 |
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The education system needs to take a step back from so much standardized testing and allow for creativity, choice, and exploration. For example a kid needs to have the opportunity to explore things you can do with a computer as a career. Then they should be given mentoring about that and more time to pave a road for a success. It's not right to expect people to figure out what they want to do right out of high school. That's why so many people including myself don't know what the hell they want to do and end up changing majors half way through college Our current education wastes too much time on unneccessary textbook material and that's where all the problems start. There's not enough room for creativity, exploration, and choice Edited by Ssj3vegito96, Sep 9 2017, 05:14 PM.
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