{"id":12171,"date":"2015-07-21T23:51:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T23:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/on-teachers-as-learners\/"},"modified":"2015-07-21T23:51:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T23:51:45","slug":"on-teachers-as-learners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/on-teachers-as-learners\/","title":{"rendered":"On Teachers as Learners&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willrichardson.com\/post\/124671653975\/on-teachers-as-learners\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">willrichardson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/seymour-papert-project-based-learning\">Seymour Papert<\/a> on project based learning in 1991:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Again, one of my favorite little analogies: If I wanted to become a<br \/>\nbetter carpenter, I\u2019d go find a good carpenter, and I\u2019ll work with this<br \/>\ncarpenter on doing carpentry or making things. And that\u2019s how I\u2019ll get<br \/>\nto be a better carpenter. So if I want to be a better learner, I\u2019ll go<br \/>\nfind somebody who\u2019s a good learner and with this person do some<br \/>\nlearning. But this is the opposite of what we do in our schools. We<br \/>\ndon\u2019t allow the teacher to do any learning. We don\u2019t allow the kids to<br \/>\nhave the experience of learning with the teacher because that\u2019s<br \/>\nincompatible with the concept of the curriculum where what is being<br \/>\ntaught is what\u2019s already known.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>First, this is just common sense, right? If we value kids becoming learners, then we should surround them with learners to apprentice with. But being a learner requires grappling with things that aren\u2019t\u00a0\u201calready known.\u201d (Whenever we talk about learning in my workshops someone always defines it as gaining new knowledge.) But teachers live 95% of the time in the\u00a0\u201calready known\u201d because that\u2019s the whole point of curriculum delivery. We know it, and now we\u2019ve got to get them to know it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Second, if kids becoming learners and teachers acting as learners isn\u2019t what we value most in schools, we\u2019ve got bigger problems than we think. Yet, how many put that at the forefront of their vision statements?\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>willrichardson: Seymour Papert on project based learning in 1991: Again, one of my favorite little analogies: If I wanted to become a better carpenter, I\u2019d go find a good carpenter, and I\u2019ll work with this carpenter on doing carpentry or making things. And that\u2019s how I\u2019ll get to be a better carpenter. So if I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3aj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}