Annotated Bibliography 2

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/diana_laufenberg_3_ways_to_teach.html

Diana Laufenberg has taken a new vision on the educational approach: experiential learning. Instead of teaching “one right answer” she is focused on giving students the tools to learn and supplying them with support but not handholding or standardized testing: she allows students to fail and teaches them to learn from mistakes. Real life is not a bubble sheet you can fill in the right answers to and get a letter grade. You have to learn from mistakes and not be afraid of them in order to grow from them. Ms. Laufenberg has taught for eleven years and recently spoke at a TED conference in November of 2010 about this very subject. Her attitude and vision about revising the educational system are the same as Sir Robinsons’, however she remains focused on the subjects that predominate our technological society (sciences and mathematics), while he has advocated for a complete restructuring of the importance placed on subjects. Her ideas are about changing how we view education and how we envision the best way to teach our children. It isn’t through memorization and always having the right answer, that is a computer. Children are human beings and they learn the same way we do, through experience. So why don’t we have an education system that teaches the way we learn? We have the technology and the capability now to deliver all the correct information, we should be focusing on letting them learn how to appropriately piece it all together.