Here’s my Reflection on the Comedian in audio-visual form.  My main connection is:

Seinfeld’s approach: It’s your job to make the audience laugh just like it’s a surfer’s job to make the waves fun.

I was able to tweet this through Screenr–this technology is simply cool….though, I make no parallel claim as to the quality of the content within. ;)

As a PS. I’ve really been re-thinking all of my reflections and wondering why I have been so apt to debate things I know nothing about during this course.  IE> Education in public schools.

Though I have been invited to speak at both, I’ve never taught in a public or private school.  Mostly my teaching experience involves telling children abroad how not to get AIDs or fall victim to Human Trafficking, as well as (hopefully) inspiring people to think more about getting involved in humanitarian efforts.  When I took EVERYTHING that we’ve learned in this class and applied it to this context where I am trying to build my expertise, I COULDN’T AGREE MORE.

The reason I couldn’t apply our Learning Adventures to public education is because though I have a lifelong love of learning, I’ve never enjoyed school.  Never.

School for me from kindergarten to college was:

  • Kindergarten:  Show me how high you can count.
  • College: Memorize these 60 slides of paintings for the Art History Final.

Basically, I learned some decent techniques on how to learn and research.  My real education happened as soon as I could get out of the classroom.  I traveled to Mexico without my parents to be a “youth ambassador” to students in Mexico when I was in 8th grade.  I taught at a Summer School in Manchester, Jamaica for my Senior Trip in high school.  I studied abroad in New Zealand my junior year of college and helped build a community center in Tau Village Fiji as a result of this journey.

As Mark Twain stated, “I never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

So it is with some remorse that I revisit many of my posts in EDU 664.  I think I owe a bit of an apology for convoluting or at the very least congesting these forums with unnecessary debate.  Yes, it was part of my process.  But looking back, I wish my process was a little more (no pun intended) constructive.  Once I could get rid of my latent “school is a waste of time anyway” attitude, I could see how what we are learning here is extremely valuable.

On that note: for those of you who wish to design an alternative to the broken education system, I salute you…though I have no idea how you are going to accomplish that without some serious, creative destruction.

Constructivist learning

  1. project based learning
  2. traditional school is what Perkins calls, “elementitis” or “aboutitis” also “banking” information for some supposed future regurgitation or use.
  3. 3. To learn Step on the stage with the masters.
  4. Learning adventures are about process and community development rather than product, grading, ranking, and shaming= kids can learn in ways we’ve never imagined before.

Please view this JUST FOR FUN chart if desired: comedian chart