How Education Works - book
Re: How Education Works - Notes
Opens with a great analogy about a stick being a technology pix
I like this statement because focus is on our practice rather than the fancy tools we use. I have often thought that many tools can be effective in learning and teaching because of the way they are used.
p3Teaching can be thought of as the application of tools, methods, principles, techniques, and structures to help people learn, and we all do it, whether to ourselves or others. It never happens the same way twice, and the
ways in which we might respond to it ar more numerous and various than the ways in which we might respond to a painting.
p3The mantra repeated throughout this book in many different ways and in many different contexts is that what we do (the tools, methods, principles, etc. for doing it) is far less significant than the way that we do it (the technique). And, in an invented system of the complexity of an education system, there are many different ways of doing it, almost all of which we will never think of, the vast majority of which will be awful, but many of which will be wonderful.
I like this statement because focus is on our practice rather than the fancy tools we use. I have often thought that many tools can be effective in learning and teaching because of the way they are used.