http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2007/08/29/half-an-hour-interview-about-learning-20/ Technology is neither the problem nor the solution. Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:40:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2007/08/29/half-an-hour-interview-about-learning-20/#comment-5045 Traci Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:33:00 +0000 http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2007/08/29/half-an-hour-interview-about-learning-20/#comment-5045 1.0 vs 2.0; funny concept. I can give you a perfect example of 1.0 vs 2.0 and me caught in the middle. My mother (63 years old) and my son (10 years old) and I are traveling on a two hour trip from home. My mother get aggervated at my son for playing video games and never reading books. She ask me: How will they ever learn anything if they don't read? I never see them using their imagination! Then she started when I was young..... We all know where that story leads! Keep in mind that both of my son's are very strong readers; reading well above their grade levels and have been reading since a very young age. I personally feel that their video games have improved their reading skills, response time, coordination, along with problem-solving skills. My mother continues to state that the boys should be learning about important things like "Tasha Tudor" (which is an author she loves). It wasn't until I told my son to explain to her about all of his 400 and some Pokemon and each of their traits (which he has studied and read about) that she began to see that her idea of learning and his idea of learning were different but the main concept was the same. I know that this has been a long story but I felt that it really demonstrated how learning is so different for everyone. As teachers, we need to be open to this concept and realize that students may not be performing the way you want them to in your subject; not because they are stupid but because they just don't like it as well as you do! 1.0 vs 2.0; funny concept. I can give you a perfect example of 1.0 vs 2.0 and me caught in the middle. My mother (63 years old) and my son (10 years old) and I are traveling on a two hour trip from home. My mother get aggervated at my son for playing video games and never reading books. She ask me: How will they ever learn anything if they don’t read? I never see them using their imagination! Then she started when I was young….. We all know where that story leads! Keep in mind that both of my son’s are very strong readers; reading well above their grade levels and have been reading since a very young age. I personally feel that their video games have improved their reading skills, response time, coordination, along with problem-solving skills. My mother continues to state that the boys should be learning about important things like “Tasha Tudor” (which is an author she loves). It wasn’t until I told my son to explain to her about all of his 400 and some Pokemon and each of their traits (which he has studied and read about) that she began to see that her idea of learning and his idea of learning were different but the main concept was the same. I know that this has been a long story but I felt that it really demonstrated how learning is so different for everyone. As teachers, we need to be open to this concept and realize that students may not be performing the way you want them to in your subject; not because they are stupid but because they just don’t like it as well as you do!

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