https://padlet.com/efisher106/m5j8fq8rrbh0 By: Emily Fisher en-us 2018-04-10 18:51:37 UTC 2025-01-31 14:20:35 UTC hello@padlet.com efisher106 https://padlet.com/efisher106/m5j8fq8rrbh0/wish/250454973 Students are taught to always listen, and follow the rules, which is good in some ways, but it doesn’t allow them room to think in their own way. Many teachers will teach their students to think, or do things in the same way that they know how to do them. This doesn't allow students to do things in a way that it makes sense to them. In the article, 'She didn't teach. We had to learn it ourselves.' Maryellen Weimer states that “Based on experiences in lots of other classrooms, they have come to believe that “good” teachers tell students what they need to know. If a teacher makes the students come up with examples when she has a perfectly good list she could be giving them, that teacher is not doing her job.” But shouldn't students learn how to think and come up with solutions on their own? Children shouldn't grow up expecting everything to be handed to them.]]> 2018-04-10 19:09:50 UTC https://padlet.com/efisher106/m5j8fq8rrbh0/wish/250454973 efisher106 https://padlet.com/efisher106/m5j8fq8rrbh0/wish/250455007 Schools teach kids how to work in a systematic factory-like setting. Kids are disciplined if they act in the wrong way, and are to listen to what the teacher tells them to do. Kids are required to follow a schedule, getting up at the same, very early time every morning, and going home at the same time every afternoon. Students are also required to learn certain subjects, get certain grades, and be a certain way, or else they basically fail at life if they don’t get through school. Schools should not be set up this way. This teaches kids to do things the same as everyone else. It teaches kids strive to get better grades, a label that determines how “smart” they are. 

]]> 2018-04-10 19:09:55 UTC https://padlet.com/efisher106/m5j8fq8rrbh0/wish/250455007 efisher106 https://padlet.com/efisher106/m5j8fq8rrbh0/wish/250455054 Many kids only study to memorize subjects long enough to test over it and then they forget about it soon after. They do this by storing the information in the short term memory part of their brain, and then they forget about it after they finish the test. Students may also not be able to do well on tests because some students get test anxiety and it hinders their ability to do well. Some students may know the topic well, but they just simply don't do well on tests and so their abilities aren't shown in test taking, then they get a bad grade and it hurts their opportunities. An alternative to testing might be having the teacher collect data that shows how the student has improved over the year based off of their answers and ability to comprehend the topic. ]]> 2018-04-10 19:10:01 UTC https://padlet.com/efisher106/m5j8fq8rrbh0/wish/250455054 efisher106 https://padlet.com/efisher106/m5j8fq8rrbh0/wish/250455098 How much of what we learn in school will we actually use, let alone remember? We intake so much information from Kindergarten to our senior year of high school that it's not very likely we would remember or even use every skill or fact we learned taught to us at school. Even if we did remember what we learned, there are many easier, and more exciting ways to learn the things that we are taught in school. Sitting in a desk and listening to someone speak for up to seven hours a day, five days out of the week is a lot to ask of a child.]]> 2018-04-10 19:10:07 UTC https://padlet.com/efisher106/m5j8fq8rrbh0/wish/250455098 efisher106 https://padlet.com/efisher106/m5j8fq8rrbh0/wish/250455137 2018-04-10 19:10:12 UTC https://padlet.com/efisher106/m5j8fq8rrbh0/wish/250455137 efisher106 https://padlet.com/efisher106/m5j8fq8rrbh0/wish/250455166 When we grow up, we work together to solve problems, and we help each other out. So why is it that when a kid looks on another kids test, it is considered cheating? Why do students get punished for helping each other out with homework?]]> 2018-04-10 19:10:15 UTC https://padlet.com/efisher106/m5j8fq8rrbh0/wish/250455166 efisher106 https://padlet.com/efisher106/m5j8fq8rrbh0/wish/250455215  Students are taught by sitting in a classroom and listening to a teacher talk to them about whatever subject they're in that class to learn. The problem with the school system being set up like this is that we still use it today, but we don't all grow up to work in factories. Curriculum and tests are so specifically narrowed down that kids whose minds don't function in a particular way are left out and this makes it much harder for certain students to benefit from school.]]> 2018-04-10 19:10:21 UTC https://padlet.com/efisher106/m5j8fq8rrbh0/wish/250455215 efisher106 https://padlet.com/efisher106/m5j8fq8rrbh0/wish/250455248 The school system was created a long, long time ago in the 19th century. During this time, people would grow up to work in factories, so they set up a school system that would teach kids how to work in factory-like conditions. "The desired product was workers who would sit silently at their benches all day, behaving identically, to produce identical products, submitting to punishment if they failed to achieve the requisite standards." as George Monbiot stated in his article 'In an age of robots, schools are teaching our children to be redundant']]> 2018-04-10 19:10:26 UTC https://padlet.com/efisher106/m5j8fq8rrbh0/wish/250455248 efisher106 https://padlet.com/efisher106/m5j8fq8rrbh0/wish/255803590 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ei_HSlUxUQ ]]> 2018-04-26 19:05:58 UTC https://padlet.com/efisher106/m5j8fq8rrbh0/wish/255803590 efisher106 https://padlet.com/efisher106/m5j8fq8rrbh0/wish/255804371 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yt6raj-S1M]]> 2018-04-26 19:08:22 UTC https://padlet.com/efisher106/m5j8fq8rrbh0/wish/255804371