How we learn

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Lovely, funny, intelligent woman educator saying simple things that we, and all teachers, need to be reminded of

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Brisbane educator Jennifer Riggs discusses children who have serious problems with auditory processing. Studies have shown that a third of us are strongly visual-spatial learners and many children cannot learn through being talked at, but will learn better by seeing and doing. The fundamentals of learning are the five senses, but how many of them do we use in teaching?

 

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"Life is not a quiz; being right, is better than being swift" Robin Williams.

"Boys are treading water in a sea of BLAGH"-Jennifer Riggs

[Queso]

It's true.

You can talk to a class

and no one would hear a damn thing.

Lots of people learn hands on, and visually.

This is easy.

I've always liked auditory learning 'cause it sparks visualizations, and I actually have to think therefore learning is an inevitability.

 

Nowadays kids are hyperactive because the planet+cosmos are too.

DO NOT FEED THEM AMPHETAMINES. PLEASE!

 

Kids don't want to sit and learn anymore.

I think we need to go back to our roots

whilst applying everything we've ever learned

while climbing up this tree of life.

 

Kids want to go out and do it, but how can they when most parents are disgustingly overprotective?

 

America is a really

really

weird place.

 

It confuses me on a daily basis.