There's one common goal for Ken Robinson and Pasi Sahlberg, improving our education. They both have a different structure of getting there but that is the end product they are trying to get at. Ken Robinson has an approach of making education fun for us to learn and giving us a purpose to learning the material being taught. He stresses a point when he says taking medication for ADHD is just a way to numb us down so that we can listen to the boring stuff being taught. If learning was more engaging, there wouldn’t be that problem. That is where divergent thinking and creative teaching methods comes in as a solution to how they might be able to fix the teaching style of America. As for education in Pasi Sahlberg they have a system to where everyone, no matter your economic situation, can all get the same degree with no cost. Cost and size would be at the top of the list of what they would argue on. America is huge and economically we couldn’t afford to have all education free because it would affect the businesses and types of work force available now that everyone has a chance to get the same degree without conflict. Yes it would benefit us tremendously of not having any debt but would it be the best choice as a whole if we try to improve our education exactly as Finland has theirs?
Thursday, September 3, 2015
America vs Finland
There's one common goal for Ken Robinson and Pasi Sahlberg, improving our education. They both have a different structure of getting there but that is the end product they are trying to get at. Ken Robinson has an approach of making education fun for us to learn and giving us a purpose to learning the material being taught. He stresses a point when he says taking medication for ADHD is just a way to numb us down so that we can listen to the boring stuff being taught. If learning was more engaging, there wouldn’t be that problem. That is where divergent thinking and creative teaching methods comes in as a solution to how they might be able to fix the teaching style of America. As for education in Pasi Sahlberg they have a system to where everyone, no matter your economic situation, can all get the same degree with no cost. Cost and size would be at the top of the list of what they would argue on. America is huge and economically we couldn’t afford to have all education free because it would affect the businesses and types of work force available now that everyone has a chance to get the same degree without conflict. Yes it would benefit us tremendously of not having any debt but would it be the best choice as a whole if we try to improve our education exactly as Finland has theirs?
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I agree with you when you said about how the medications are numbing us down to pay attention to the boring lectures.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your blog about this. I agree with that how they are both trying to improve out education. Also, how you said about how if learning was more engaging that it would be not as boring. I agree about how America is huge and economically we cannot afford to make education free because of how it would affect the work force. It would help us out of not having any debt but we just cannot afford all that.
ReplyDeleteI agree that we are a huge country and that we can't expect to have the same education system as a small country like Findland, but if we think about it, boring classes are not the only problem because we can easily solve that, the only thing we cannot solve is the large percent of students quitting school because of the expensiveness.
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