Wednesday, May 22, 2013
How do we go from student consumers to student producers?
As teachers, to move students from consumers to students as producers, we need to move away from delivering information that nothing is done with. Note taking from lectures, outlining a textbook chapter, or labeling states on a map do nothing to create a student producer. Teachers must use methods to create a higher order of thinking so that students can interact, question, and design. Knowledge alone does not produce...understanding does. Social networks would be a great tool to create this motivation to interact and share this knowledge and understanding. If educators can instill the need to know and understand, then we will have created lifelong learners!
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Great post! The ideas you mentioned are great. Instead of spoon-feeding our students with information, we need to take a step back and let them figure out how to learn! They need to develop and maintain thinking skills and use them daily!
ReplyDeleteI like that you said knowledge alone does not produce, understanding does. That is so true. Memorizing information and regurgitating it does the student no good. Instead we should allow students to figure things out and promote higher order thinking skills.
ReplyDeleteAs teachers, to move students from consumers to students as producers, we need to move away from delivering information that nothing is done with.
ReplyDeleteThis is the key statement
If we expect our students to be productive members of society than we need to get them to use the knowledge that we are teaching them rather then just learning it for the sake of a test.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you said! I also think that teaching kids information that is pointless does nothing for them. They need to fully understand what is taught to them before they can produce.
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