Stefan HansenWhat MUST children learn before the age of 15? I'm all ears. Thanks! #education #pedagogy
Miguel Guhlin 🦉 🇵🇦 🇺🇲@stefanhansen How to solve problems, perhaps a la George Polya/Socratic method. How to take notes and process them in a way that leads to long-term information retention and transfer to real life. #PBL #Polya #Education #EduTooter @edutooters
@mguhlin Thanks for sharing your ideas. Polya's method for solving problems—splendid! Your comment makes me want to re-read his wonderful little book. So, if we want children to solve problems, what problems do we want them to learn to solve?
@stefanhansen That is the political aspect of this. As educators, we want students to solve real life problems that get them on the uplifting news broadcasts, not the alternative. As people, social justice problems offer the richest opportunities for interdisciplinary innovation and solutions that make a real impact. No?
@mguhlin How literally do you mean "get them on the uplifting news broadcasts"? A lot of good things done will never see the news. So, is getting on the news a criteria for you?
@stefanhansen that is one way of saying people shouldn’t get fired for solving problem
@mguhlin I see. So, what will the kids need to learn to be able to solve problems worth solving?
@stefanhansen Great question. One supposes that you are now discussing curriculum. I would love to learn what others say…I am ignorant, only realizing I know little and wish I had learnt that before 15 not after 50. 🤣
@mguhlin What do you think? We are just jamming, right? It could be curriculum, or more broadly speaking. Here are some ideas:
- to love
- to care
- to contribute
- to have a sense for numbers
- to understand what science can and cannot
- to be resilient
- to not give up easily
- to be in sync with themselves
- to express themselves clearly and beautifully
- to have the courage to create
@stefanhansen who can argue with that list? I suppose that as an adult looking back, I might hope that we wouldn’t teach fantasy as fact, put clear labels on stories, and be kinder about them (clear is kind, and all that).
@mguhlin Maybe no one would argue with this list. However, this is not exactly what is the focus of teachers in schools today.