How schools can be changed to base camps for heroes' journeys: Gerald Huether at TEDxKoeln 2013 скачать в хорошем качестве

How schools can be changed to base camps for heroes' journeys: Gerald Huether at TEDxKoeln 2013

Every child begins his life like a hero's journey: brave and confident, open-minded and capable of building relationships, with an urge to discover and to create, equipped with a brain in which we find as many networking options as are needed to learn anything relevant to a healthy and fulfilled life at any place of the world. And then, we send them to school, where their desire to learn rapidly changes into witless frustration. Neither genetic dispositions, nor their brain, but the inopportune learning experiences at school, cause this significant change. Instead of searching for their hidden talents and strengths, teachers would teach, test and select them, as if their brains were barrels meant to be stuffed with knowledge. Instead of reminding of encouraging eyries, most schools equal crammed hen coops. That must change! Gerald Hüther is neuroscientist at the University of Göttingen and strongly believes that our brains need some other input than straw. He is member of the expert group for the future of learning in the Federal Chancellor's Office and the council for cultural education in Germany. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)