Blog assignment #5

I really liked the idea of playing with knowledge. I noticed, in my practicum, that children learn better when they don’t realize they are being taught something. This should be one of the first learning strategy future teachers learn to use at school… but it’s not.

I totally agree with the idea that imagination is the key to create. Even if it may seem something innate, I personally don’t think it is. Imagination has to be practice over and over to be more efficient. We should encourage students to use their imagination by giving them a lot of creative activities and have them using their imagination as often as possible.

Also, the man in the video mentioned that the best way to learn is to teach. It’s funny because we would first think that to be able to teach something, we should have to master it very well first, but that’s not true! I often study this way. I act like a teacher to an invisible audience and this way, I remember everything!!

This video was really interesting. This is too bad that not much people give a try on these new teaching strategies or at least take them into consideration. I think it would be a great advancement for the field of teaching.