This video is a playful exploration of the disconnect between current educational thinking and the reality for today’s students.
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This video is a presentation about school design made by a teacher in the USA in hopes of sparking some discussion her district.
Robert Epstein, former editor in chief of Psychology Today, shows that teen turmoil is caused by outmoded systems put in place a century ago which destroyed the continuum between childhood and adulthood. Where this continuum still exists in other countries, there is no adolescence.
Isolated from adults, American teens learn everything they know from their media-dominated peers the last people on earth they should be learning from, says Epstein. Epstein explains that our teens are highly capable in some ways more capable than adults and argues strongly against infantilizing young people. We must rediscover the adult in every teen, he says, by giving young people adult authority and responsibility as soon as they can demonstrate readiness. This landmark book will change the thinking about teens for decades to come. Read more John Abbott speaks about the fact that children are innately inquisitive and insists that schools need to capitalize on this fact.
Heather MacTaggart speaks about the fact that although human beings are inquisitive by nature, for many children learning becomes something that is viewed as ‘not fun’.
In Grade 7, 23% of students report a high level of school connectedness, while a mere 7% report a high level by Grade 10. The McCreary Centre Society, Healthy Connections: Listening to BC Youth.
Highlights From the Adolescent Health Survey II, The McCreary Centre Society (1999) In Grade 6, 28% of youth report liking school, whereas only 17% of Grade 10 students (and only 14% of Grade 10 boys) say the same. William Boyce, Young People in Canada:
Their Health and Well-being, Health Canada (2002) This short video summarizes some of the most important characteristics of students today – how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.
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