"Test are good, but they are like very . . . accurate telescopes that are focused on just a few stars at the expense of a universe of knowledge" - D Hyman.

@MichaelRodriguez-vl8by

2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of a metaphor I’ve heard about how the ADHD mind analyzes the world. It’s not that the mind is unable to focus but that it focuses on too much at once. Like looking at the world through a straw and looking at the world through a pipe.

I really appreciate teachers like her. I was a gifted student in elementary school and GT class time was my favorite time that just kept engaged at times I knew I wasn’t going to be. She talks about how nothing was graded in the classes, and that really has an effect on how a student performs. You see, throughout elementary school I went to a separate classroom once or twice a week with kids who would understand what I talk about. Then, we’d get topics to debate. Real topics from the news or debates that a people were debating right then and there. And all we had to do was talk about the pros and cons of both sides. Our teacher never judged what we said, just kept the ball rolling. Through this, since we knew it wouldn’t affect our academic performance, we’d explore more and think outside the box. Then, I went into middle school, where I was put in their version of the gifted program. They had us do yearly projects on whatever we wanted, we’d have free reign over all of our elements. Except, we were graded. We had standards to uphold and we had deadlines and minimums we needed to meet. Because of this, most students asked their parents to pull them out of the program or they’d do lack-luster projects just because they had to. And the grades affected our core classes. It ended up just being a project that we were forced to do but not everyone in our classes had to. To us, that wasn’t fair. We weren’t engaged, we were disengaged. No one wanted to do it and we saw no point in it. All it was was another project that would be turned in for a grade soon. We lost our spark of curiosity and saw it as a burden more than an opportunity to explore things.

And yet there are people who defend the traditional education system even though it destroys the spark of curiosity within us

@MikeFuller-ok6ok

25 күн бұрын

I have a supervised Mensa IQ in the 'High Average' range, and I was placed in remedial sets at school. "Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them." Richard Buckminster Fuller ( 1895 - 1983 )

I was one of her students. And i am proud.

@mirachan6951

5 жыл бұрын

Are you that kai?

@MrAirCombs

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like bait,

THIS IS WHAT I DO DAILY IN MY CLASS AS AN ART TEACHER - THE ISSUE IS TEACHING PARENTS THAT ITS ALL ABOUT THE PROCESS NOT THE FINAL PRODUCT OR GRADE - ESPECIALLY GIFTED PARENTS

We talk a lot about identifying gifted children, but not so much about identifying gifted teachers. The two really should be paired up. How can we possibly expect teachers with ordinary abilities to challenge gifted children? Is any effort being made to identify gifted teachers? If so, how is it being done? Where is it being done?

@guayabita27able

Жыл бұрын

In US there is an attempt called TIA Teacher Incentive Allotment, intended to identify outstanding teachers. So far, I have not seen any step taken toward the TIA.

@colorswordsandlearning

8 ай бұрын

I don't agree.. all students deserve to be taught by teachers gifted in various ways.. Too many such pairing and you are going a segregating way.. where only the gifted get the beat of the best.. and that's NOT the way ... Everyone should have access to the best teachers and education issues and materials , not just gifted...

@psychicspy

8 ай бұрын

@colorswordsandlearning Everyone should have access to qualified teachers. The gifted should be taught by the gifted. Teachers who are themselves gifted are very rare. We should not waste their talents on ordinary minds. Ordinary - but qualified - teachers can teach the average students.

Some good points here. It seems that in many classrooms the rush to cram in as much information as possible to consistently pass ever continual tests is detracting from the education process. The focus seems to be placed squarely on the 'what' rather than the 'how', and teaching kids 'how' to actually think and problem solve is clearly more important as they can apply such knowledge to any situation. The ancient greeks taught their kids in this way, why don't we?

@Justin-yp1dz

6 жыл бұрын

@Red Pill Counselling - Exactly, I've been saying this since a kid 😄

Very interessting, we didn't use enough this method in university or company

Hey Dylan I really like thought and I closely correlate them with my insights. I agree, working towards thinking classrooms is certainly the path for new age schooling.

Beautiful indeed, I've always believed schools should allow kids to pick what they want to learn. I often didn't get enough time to learn something before a teacher would hop to the next subject and then look at me like "to bad for you".

discover and make the dream come true, that's so inspiring.

This is really interesting! How teaching is and should be done , collaboratively!!

Higher order thinking in math requires that the content be well codified in the long term memory, and that kind of teaching is not suited to subjects with well structured domains like math.

Excellent talk...gives me hope

GOOSEBUMPS tnx madamoisslle

OUTSTANDING!!!

love da message

I really have to say that I wholeheartedly agree with her. We need more HoT in our classrooms. I think formative assessment may be a way to step away from the standardized way of treating lessons (generating a more HoT-geared backwash effect). I do hold the believe that children sometimes lack the basic understanding of things. For example the fact that she wasn't told that she should have written 'by' instead of 'bij' on the makeshift pricetag. I think that LoT skills need to be taught before you move on to the HoT. Is this me thinking in a very linear way?

@robertog8008

2 жыл бұрын

I think it’s written in Dutch, and it seems to be correct. It’s a TEDxAmsterdam event so it might explain it. And regarding your point, I feel like we can learn parallely HoT and LoT. We learn by doing and by failing, so by trying to be creative when we still don’t know much, we can probably still succeed. That being said to make a complicated project, it can be useful to know LoT.

i learned alot tody

Amazing.❤️

It is about the process and not the product!

@racheldemain1940

5 жыл бұрын

117386 caland Romeo The Journey not simply the Destination.

what a motivational nice good ted talk thank you so much

Totally agree.

Plot twist - Kai was L from deathnote

TF 2:35 - Annie Who?

IQ tests are the best predictor of intelligence and have more research to back them up then all other metrics combined. The ability to use abstract thinking to solve problems is what an IQ test is testing for and you can use an IQ score to make very accurate predictions about how people will to at school and in life from their IQ score. If kids were given an IQ test every 3 years from the age of 4 schools could cut down on the time taken preparing for tests and spend it doing more useful things.

@stratovation1474

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant people are so different. I know many. IQ tests are fine but limited. Like testing artists on color theory, which is important but misses creativity. Leonardo was tops at many skills including gymnastics music spatial ability and on and on. His questions like how the tongue of a hummingbird words? He figured out how the aerotic valve works. But he was not good at algebra. Not very smart according to some test. Curiosity and motivation are so important. All kids have that. Some teachers nurture that. Others kill it altho not intentionally. Also, nothing kills talent like poverty, poor nutrition, dysfunctional households and communities...

Good

What’s up with the camera angle at 4:02? Creepy camera man lol played it smoothed I guess

my answer to what can go around the world while staying in a corner : a pool ball in a pool table in the private jet of some rich person

@racheldemain1940

5 жыл бұрын

The Rain Shimmers clever isn't it?

hi guys

novel

I am a traditional learner, and the type of student who would not do well with that type of teaching.

@renzcruzmabalatan2225

2 жыл бұрын

step outside i guess, thanks for trying

@nah131

Жыл бұрын

What you are doing is temporary, it is to pass a certain tests.

Reading Writing Arithmetic When all students can do those three things at their grade level, THEN we can discuss creativity in the classroom.

Very interessting, we didn't use enough this method in university or company