Davis, J. (2013, October 15). How a
radical new teaching method could unleash a generation of geniuses. Wired. Retrieved from http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/free-thinkers/
Davis recounts
the experiences Sergio Juarez Correa, a teacher in Matamoros, Mexico, had in 2011 when he reinvented the
way in which he taught. He drew his inspiration from the “emerging educational
philosophies... that [apply] the logic of the digital age to classroom” and the
ideas that Sugata Mitra developed after his experiments with supplying
disadvantaged children with technology. A
majority of the article is spent on supplying the background information on
those new ways of teaching and engaging students with technology. The focus of
Correa’s teaching was very much in line with the ideas of inquiry-based
teaching; he would engage the students with open-ended questions and let them
work through the concepts until they supplied an answer. Although Correa drew
inspiration from Sugata Mitra, he was not able to grant his students access to
technology in the way he would have hoped. The school he worked in was very disadvantaged
and technology classes occurred once a week and usually involved pictures of
technology instead of actual technology. This article, though, speaks of the accomplishments
that teachers and students are able to make even without the technology
present. It reinstates the idea that bringing the technology to the students is
not enough, we have to alter the way in which students are ‘taught’ by bringing
them to the forefront of the process.
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