ted summary and reflection

 HOW TO LEARN? FROM MISTAKE

By : Diana Laufenberg

Summarized by Najmiatul Fauza

She has been teaching for a long time, and in doing so, she has acquired a body of knowledge about kids and learning and potential of students. In 1931, her grandmother graduated from the eight grade, she went to school to get the information, because at that time school was where the information live. Information was being transferred from teacher to students and used to the world. Year by year when Ms Diana was a kid, she doesn’t have to go to school and library to get the information because the information already exist in her house.

Next, she took off from Wisconsin and moved to  Kansas , she had an opportunity to teach in rural Kansas school district and she taught American Government. In the first year kids in twelve grade not exactly all that enthusiastic about this subject. In the second year she changed the tactic and learned from themselves  . They were given the task to make an election in their community. It worked,  they learned American government by experiencing it.

After that, she moved to Arizona, where she taught in Flagstaff for a number of years with middle school students. She taught geography. The problem was how to teach seventh and eight graders to talk about genocide and dealt with the subject in a way that was responsible and respectful. Then she moved to Pennsylvania, she taught at the science leadership academy. In Philadelphia, every kids has a one –to-one laptop program, bringing it to school, taking home and getting access to it. The things needed to get comfortable with when the students are given the tool to acquire information is allowing students to fail. As a part of learning process. Telling kids to be never wrong is totally wrong thing. In this subject, they are given a task of creating an infographic  of soil pill, but they students were not comfortable with this new thing then she motivate them just  to go figure it out and they did it well. Learning has to include an amount of failure, because failure is instructional in the process. the main point is that, if we look at education as if it’s about coming to school to get information and not about experiential learning, empowering students’ voice and embracing failure we’re missing the mark and everything that everybody is talking about having an educational system that does not value these qualities, because we won’t get there with a standardized test and we won’t get there with a culture of right answer.

in my opinion, this speech is given us the experiences in teaching and learning by finding an appropriate methods to make the process effectively.