C4T#2

Wright's Room

#1
In her blog post The Mcdonalization of Education: the rise of Slow, Shelley Wright proves her point about education needing to be a slow process. Learning does not take five seconds. It takes time and practice. Many students today, I for one, need to review things over and over again until I fully understand. The rise of fast pace learning in this world is a major set back for all education. In her post she states, ""Unfortunately, our education system, at least in North America, has been deeply influenced by the “need for speed”, or what George Ritzer has termed “McDonaldization”. She is exactly right. Her blog post was very inspiring and full of little things I would never have thought of.

#2
Shelley Wright said it best in her article, "The Gift of Failure, "Nobody really knows what the world will look like 10 years from now. We’re preparing students for jobs that don’t exist, using technology that hasn’t been invented, to solve problems we don’t know about." We simply cannot learn things if we do not fail. Wright said we have one of two options, blame it on an external factor, or we can look inside our selves and figure out what we did wrong. It is important for students to fail, to figure out how to fix themselves, all because they need to learn what it feels like to accomplish something on their own. They do not need to rely on someone else to pick them back up. An A in a class is a goal, you may fail a few times getting there, but there is always room to improve. Shelley Wright also said, "I think if our students make it through school without ever failing, we’ve failed them. Badly. Because life involves a lot of figuring out how to do something a different way. It requires a lot of problem solving. And sometimes when things go wrong, it is other people’s fault, but getting stuck there isn’t going to help us. Instead, we need to learn, unlearn, and relearn". That being said, let your students learn from their mistakes. It only makes them better in the end.