After watching the video, "Study that I used to know" I felt very much in line with what the parody was saying. It was speaking on the experience of education as being a feeding of useless information. Much of my experience in school was a whole lot of memorization. There were whole years in grade school that I don't have more than a couple memories from. I attribute this to the teacher and teaching style. At that time, the teachers had been teaching for more than ten years, and were very stuck in a didactic teaching style. For this reason, the information was not as retained. I think it is important to have a varied education with a diversity of topics and subjects covered, in the hopes that a student can find their niche. But it is unfortunate that some of the subjects we learn are not really useful in our day to day lives. I think if schooling was more holistic, which I think it definitely has changed and grown over the years to encompass more experiential learning, then students can practice a number of disciplines all in the same lesson or project.
I think this video and message was really relevant and true for many people's experiences.
While I know it's preferable to help students see direct connections to what they're learning, what if it's not possible? Is there value in learning for learning's sake--for instance if students won't ever speak the language you're teaching beyond your classroom?
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