teachers know nothing about students and what they go through i am running a campaign to put a stop to this.
“they just expect us to turn up and complete the work but they dont know that personal life issues effects our work”.
“this needs to stop”.
And more students a killing themselves with work. But will they get far?
kj
March 14, 2012
I live in Alberta, Canada. We are a very affluent province. All the kindergarten classes I’ve been to have Smart board technology. My friend who was an English professor at our university had to pay for her own photocopies and buy her own chalk. Why is there such disparity between these two areas of education? I know I paid more for my University than my parents did for my grade school education.
maaz
October 28, 2012
Hi. I am a PG student and have just finished with my degree. I want to express my views here about education.
Right now i am faced with a dilemma of getting started to work in order to earn a living for the rest of my life or pursue further education which means i want to learn more.
Today the education environment is geared towards making a sound living i.e. money oriented. This presents a challenge for people like me who find it difficult to face it.
I see education as a means of improving a human being or society which means good moral and ethical values.
But in reality the trend is reverse ! People see education as a means of gaining wealth.
Rute Antunes & Ricardo Carvalho (Omega team)
January 26, 2013
This video characterized by a striking objectivity leads us to understand how students behave and think.
Roosevelt wrote: “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” This idea carries us immediately to three questions that the author of the video answers in a few seconds: what can I do? What do I have? Where am I?
Starting with the last question we can see that the physical space becomes a virtual space. The question: ‘What do I have?’, takes us into the world of technology that should also be placed at the service of education, when one observes expressions like: “I will read 8 books this year, 2300 web pages and 1281 facebook profiles”. Shouldn’t we ask if it makes more sense to have the content in textbooks or hosted on Web pages? When a student says that he will write 42 paper pages in a semester against more than 500 pages of e-mail, does it make sense to use paper? It is important to understand what students have today.
Finally what can I do? Financially is shown that digital systems are more economical than paper systems in the case of textbooks and paper for the notebooks. So, what makes more sense to have or what is more convenient and advantageous to have.
A clear answer to these questions is shown in Professor Michael Wesch’s video.
Carolina V Caldeira
January 27, 2013
“A Vision of Students Today” presents the results of a survey on a survey tool Google, on the view that the students had them today and the result for those working in education or accompanying scenarios and educational debates is the expected. A sad and tragic result that shows how our social connections made ??possible by the internet are still disconnected from formal learning spaces. It also shows that learning spaces on open networks Internet are not being used for this purpose, since the students surveyed say spend hours looking Facebook profile, or sending e-mails to colleagues, rather than, for example, produce and share content.
Interesting how the education in the school context is seen by them as an obligation to read books, write a certain number of pages, ie something which reflects limited in other important data where only 26% of respondents see what they learn in school as something relevant to life.
But why is it? Increasingly the school is distancing his performance the reality in which it is embedded.
Decontextualized learning and practice in real situations.
Best regards,
Carolina Caldeira, Inês Araújo, Elisabete Santos (Capa Team – UAB-PT)
lean-Al-Asady
teachers know nothing about students and what they go through i am running a campaign to put a stop to this.
“they just expect us to turn up and complete the work but they dont know that personal life issues effects our work”.
“this needs to stop”.
And more students a killing themselves with work. But will they get far?
kj
I live in Alberta, Canada. We are a very affluent province. All the kindergarten classes I’ve been to have Smart board technology. My friend who was an English professor at our university had to pay for her own photocopies and buy her own chalk. Why is there such disparity between these two areas of education? I know I paid more for my University than my parents did for my grade school education.
maaz
Hi. I am a PG student and have just finished with my degree. I want to express my views here about education.
Right now i am faced with a dilemma of getting started to work in order to earn a living for the rest of my life or pursue further education which means i want to learn more.
Today the education environment is geared towards making a sound living i.e. money oriented. This presents a challenge for people like me who find it difficult to face it.
I see education as a means of improving a human being or society which means good moral and ethical values.
But in reality the trend is reverse ! People see education as a means of gaining wealth.
Rute Antunes & Ricardo Carvalho (Omega team)
This video characterized by a striking objectivity leads us to understand how students behave and think.
Roosevelt wrote: “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” This idea carries us immediately to three questions that the author of the video answers in a few seconds: what can I do? What do I have? Where am I?
Starting with the last question we can see that the physical space becomes a virtual space. The question: ‘What do I have?’, takes us into the world of technology that should also be placed at the service of education, when one observes expressions like: “I will read 8 books this year, 2300 web pages and 1281 facebook profiles”. Shouldn’t we ask if it makes more sense to have the content in textbooks or hosted on Web pages? When a student says that he will write 42 paper pages in a semester against more than 500 pages of e-mail, does it make sense to use paper? It is important to understand what students have today.
Finally what can I do? Financially is shown that digital systems are more economical than paper systems in the case of textbooks and paper for the notebooks. So, what makes more sense to have or what is more convenient and advantageous to have.
A clear answer to these questions is shown in Professor Michael Wesch’s video.
Carolina V Caldeira
“A Vision of Students Today” presents the results of a survey on a survey tool Google, on the view that the students had them today and the result for those working in education or accompanying scenarios and educational debates is the expected. A sad and tragic result that shows how our social connections made ??possible by the internet are still disconnected from formal learning spaces. It also shows that learning spaces on open networks Internet are not being used for this purpose, since the students surveyed say spend hours looking Facebook profile, or sending e-mails to colleagues, rather than, for example, produce and share content.
Interesting how the education in the school context is seen by them as an obligation to read books, write a certain number of pages, ie something which reflects limited in other important data where only 26% of respondents see what they learn in school as something relevant to life.
But why is it? Increasingly the school is distancing his performance the reality in which it is embedded.
Decontextualized learning and practice in real situations.
Best regards,
Carolina Caldeira, Inês Araújo, Elisabete Santos (Capa Team – UAB-PT)