After watching the video “From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able” by Michael Wesch I understand the difference between making our students knowledgeable versus knowledge-able. Wesch argues that in today’s society we educators are good at making our students knowledgeable but that we do not always allow room for them to become knowledge-able. Being knowledge-able requires a different kind of thinking than knowledgeable. Students today are required to sit at their seats, listen to the instructor, and absorb as much information as they can during the lecture. We as educators need to facilitate their thinking but allow them to venture out on their own so that students can contribute original ideas. Knowledge-able means that students are able to consume information, analyze it, develop an opinion, and argue their point. In order to allow students room to become knowledge-able we must stop implying that the source of all knowledge is at the front of the classroom and help students to feel that they are a source of knowledge for themselves and others. This will in turn require our students to learn how to think critically because information and resources will not be spoon-fed to them. I strongly agree with Wesch that we as educators need to assist our students with the challenges that life outside of school will present to them.
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Brooke Wiestling
2/7/2015 11:32:10 am
Hi Edgar!
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Edgar AyalaI love mathematics and how everything in mathematics can be proven going back to simple axioms. I am a mathematics educator at heart and I hope to make learning mathematics fun for all my students and hope to instill the value of education in all my students. Archives
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