Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Learning to Unlearn


As humans and lifelong learners we are always growing and learning new things. For professional growth as a teacher it is important to unlearn and re learn certain things. The Text (The Connected Educator) says that “connected learning is a process of learning, unlearning, and then re learning as we participate in networks and communities”. We have to forget previous thoughts to grow and learn the new techniques and the new curriculums for teaching. As a teacher it is easy to teach the same way you were taught as a child, but to be a teacher in the connected communities in the current world you have to unlearn the techniques and ways of your past teachers.

Although it is important to keep up in today’s communities of technology and new age thoughts I think that the past has a lot to teach us and has a lot of use. Growing up my schooling was a lot of writing and doing work out on paper and memorizing, while today it is all about technology and being involved in the online world. Kids are not taught the basics as they use to. In today’s schools kids are not learning how to do math without a calculator or spelling without word check. I think a lot is being lost through teachers unlearning how to learn the basics and relearning the new technology.  

4 comments:

  1. Nice post! I agree that we can learn a lot from the past as well

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  2. I like how you reference the past and how we can learn from it, are their anythings we can change that didn't work in the past. Teachers need to self-evaluate themselves to see what works and what doesn't and then they can unlearn and relearn useful and effective ways of teaching certain content areas.

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  3. Great post I like how you imply that we cannot completely forget about what did in the past because it is imperative to helping us learn and develop today

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  4. I think that as good as it may seem to have a calculator and computers with spell check, students will never really learn the material. The old ways of actually memorizing the material is lost with the old ways of teaching. That could actually be a downfall of this process of "unlearning and relearning".

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