Jane Taylor Wilson, PhD, Westmont College
Intrinsic learning comes from within people. It is the innate or internal desire to learn. Few of today's students seem to have this desire to learn? Why? What does this graphic say about school, how subjects are taught, and teaching in general? How could teachers and schools help students develop the desire to learn for learning's sake?
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5 comments:
I firmly believe many students don't have the desire to learn. This is mostly because they go to school at least 40 hours a week where they are stuck in 7 classes where most teachers lecture the whole time and then give an assignment at the end. The student may not really understand and doesn't have the time to ask questions. This is probably the second biggest reason: The students are given lots of homework and for me, it seems to be piled on the day that just is a really busy day. The biggest reason is, I think: The subject is boring. What fun is it to learn when you sit in a classroom for like 40 minutes, you can't have fun, you can't communicate with others, and you have the choice to listen to the lecture or fall asleep and get in deep trouble. This graphic says learning, having fun, and communicating are equal. I don't belive this. Teachers can help by making the subject more fun and more hands-on activities. If you do hands-on activities, students get way more out of it than 30 min. of homework for each class.
Right before I left to go to America, I wasn't too sure about going to college. Not that I wasn't planning on going, but it was not a priority at all, someday I would find something and it would be okay. I think I lost the desire to learn right after my high school exams and it didn't seem to come back. Then I started working at a medicine factory for three months. I had to work every morning from six until two or I had to start at two and work until eleven in the evening. The work was always the same, boring and my entire body would hurt after a day of work. I would see people working there, that never worked anywhere else, and done this emotionally and physically exhausting job for twenty five years. I understand that these jobs are very important and necessary for society, but I realized that I had some higher ambitions than a medicine factory. I wanted to achieve more in my life and it was like that was the moment I just realized I needed college for that. That was the exact moment I decided I was going to find a college, and I was going to find a good one! I think to get students more into a work ethic, let them work in a medicine factory for a month, it will change many people.
well i think that the kids dont wanna learn cause they are not intrested in it and i think that the kids want to do things in class that is easy for them but sometimes you have to just catch what is thrown at you and do it to the best of your capabilitys so that you can learn new things most kids think that they wont need that later in life but sometimes its just nice to know certain things because it is fun to be able to sit and listen sometimes i dont listen as much as i should but i do pick up alot and even if i wouldnt talk about some of it on a normal basis its kind of nice to know what your talking about when you do talk about some of the stuff you know so i think kids should get every piece of information that they can while they can
Kids begin life with the desire to learn. We are naturally curious, and want to know everything that is going on around us. We are always asking, always wondering, always looking for the answers. But school takes its toll. We become reluctant to learn because it is forced upon us. Teachers decide they can’t nurture us individually, and so treat us as one and the same. Those who their teaching methods benefit succeed, but those who feel restricted don’t. They lose interest in learning, and decide that what they are being taught doesn’t relate to them. With the mainstream learning, many lose the desire to learn. And the restrictions on hands-on and out-of-the-box learning prove to make things more difficult. Any kid can succeed if opened up to the right options. But teachers become too taxed or are too lazy to open the necessary doors for keeping the innate interest blooming.
whe nwe are learning we have the the ability to learn and thats how we play and communicate with others. i think that some kids are stuck once they get to high school. the doors dont open up just right for them. like me all i want is to farm and weld and the doors right now arent opening up just right for them some days it makes me mad. but in life we got to learn that our time comes when it does.
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