Technology Journal Blog #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLbXrNGVXfE&feature=youtu.be 

I agree that knowledge is about what you don't and your willingness to find out. Learning is all about just that. Learning. It is about wanting to acquire some new skill or information. Knowledge is not just bestowed upon you. It is acquired. You have to realize you don't know something, decide to learn it, and then learn it.  I love the idea that great teachers learn with their students. On one hand, it hammers home the idea that you are never done learning. Not even teachers have learned everything. It is not possible in one lifetime. Secondly, if teachers learn with their students, then students are never alone when they struggle to pick something up. I had a history teacher in high school who would hold debates on many topics relating to what we were learning in class. You would be assigned a position (for or against) for whatever topic we were discussing that day. He would participate in these debates with us and would tell us whenever we made a point or argument that was hard for him to refute. He was on our level learning and engaging with us and it made learning really fun. Teachers need to be more like my high school history teacher. He was not afraid to "lose" a discussion or get stumped by his students. Him engaging with us in this way taught us how to lose gracefully. He taught us critical thinking skills and how to support an argument even if we didn't believe that position was right. Being willing to learn more about a topic, even if it's not something you agree with is super important. We need more teachers that teach students to not be afraid of what they don't know. After all, that's just one more thing you are going to have knowledge about once you decide to learn it!

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