I see a lot of this helplessness in my students, as they expect things to just happen but they don't want to do the work to make those things happen. I believe there is a lot to be optimistic about with this generation, and a lot to be pessimistic about. The question is: how do we, as educators, turn this around? It can't just be us and it can't just be happening in select classrooms. Our students come to us the product of a world outside of our classroom walls. How do we help our students see that learning opens doors for them and others instead of school just being part of the machine?
Spot on. In school, you’re taught to be passive, memorization robots doing the bare minimum to get the grade. In the real world, you need to be active, learning instead of memorizing, dynamic and hardworking.
I see a lot of this helplessness in my students, as they expect things to just happen but they don't want to do the work to make those things happen. I believe there is a lot to be optimistic about with this generation, and a lot to be pessimistic about. The question is: how do we, as educators, turn this around? It can't just be us and it can't just be happening in select classrooms. Our students come to us the product of a world outside of our classroom walls. How do we help our students see that learning opens doors for them and others instead of school just being part of the machine?
Spot on. In school, you’re taught to be passive, memorization robots doing the bare minimum to get the grade. In the real world, you need to be active, learning instead of memorizing, dynamic and hardworking.