Mona Al Hammoudi (Abu Dhabi)
Yesterday, His Highness Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, member of the Executive Council of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, witnessed a lecture organized by the Mohammed bin Zayed Council at Al Bateen Palace under the title “Education and Learning: Together towards Positive Progress.” The lecture was attended by His Highness Sheikh Khalid bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President The Board of Directors of the Zayed Higher Organization for People of Determination, Sheikh Khalifa bin Tahnoun bin Mohammed Al Nahyan, Executive Director of the Martyrs’ Families Affairs Office, and a number of sheikhs and officials.
The lecture was delivered by Michael B. Horn, Co-Founder and Distinguished Fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Innovation in the United States and Lecturer at Harvard University.
Confirmed by Michael B. Horn, during the lecture, that the “Corona” pandemic showed that traditional schools are not social environments, which negatively affects the student’s motivation and ability to achieve, and how to create an educational environment that encourages students to cooperate and interconnect, and the importance of following a learning methodology based on mastery rather than indoctrination to ensure the success of all students. students.
He noted that worldwide, there is no country in which all students excel in realizing their human potential, and in the majority of countries there are countless students who are falling behind in the education system due to “zero-sum”, with many more losers than winners.
He added: It is the “zero education” system that systematically undermines cooperation and interdependence and not only limits the social development of children, but also limits their academic development, stressing that teachers have many tasks to perform, and in fact we see that they should be champions. In order for our students to succeed.
Horn said: Learning is no longer a rare resource when using the Internet, and one of the interesting things is the role of technology. the child, and each school and classroom may have to do different things with technology depending on their circumstances and the needs of the community of learners.
traditional schools
Touched by Michael B. Horn, during the lecture, focused on several axes, the most important of which was that the Corona pandemic showed that traditional schools are not social environments, which negatively affects the student’s motivation and ability to achieve, and how to create an educational environment that encourages students to cooperate and interconnect, and the importance of following a learning methodology based on mastery rather than indoctrination to ensure success All children. In addition to ways to enhance students’ abilities to collaborate, be creative, solve problems, and develop behaviors necessary for success. The lecturer also discussed the teaching process as a group activity that provides a support umbrella that leads to success, the importance of the role of parents in understanding, designing and developing the educational process, and finally the role of technology in creating diverse teaching methods that suit all categories of learners.
traditional classroom
Michael Horn explained his view in the traditional classroom, which sees one teacher at the front of the class with many students in rows of desks, the teacher has to go through a lot of curriculum that teaches the whole class and the children don’t have much opportunity to connect with each other Some cooperation to strengthen those relationships with other students, and if students start to cooperate with each other, it is called cheating which is frustrating, and if a child starts to be social in class, he will be disciplined, we do not like class clown in our traditional education system.
“All the activities that provide opportunities for children to have fun with each other, happen outside the classroom, and they are called extra activities, which tell you everything you need to know about the importance of experiencing being social in a traditional classroom, because basically all education systems in all schools in all The world is built on a zero-sum mentality. They believe that for every winner, there must be a loser and this undermines opportunities for collaboration and interdependence. And we might say that was a worthwhile trade-off, it’s okay that not all schools are social, because school is really for academics, it is for learning, but if that is our strategy for making that trade-off, it is not working well.”
countless
“Throughout the world, there is no country in which all students excel in realizing their human potential, and in the majority of countries there are countless students who are falling behind in the education system because of the zero-sum,” Horn added.
He noted that in the United States, 1 in 3 12th graders are proficient in mathematics, and that it is the zero-based education system that systematically undermines cooperation and interdependence and not only limits children’s social development, but their academic development as well.
He said: “To solve this, we have to know how to move towards a “positive sum” system in which we get out of the “zero sum” competition and start ensuring that every child masters the required skills, especially since each individual learns at different speeds than anyone else and we have different educational needs at times. We don’t all learn at the same rate, we have different working memory capacities, we have different competencies and we develop different strengths.”
He added: “Across the world, we have built an education system where the teacher is expected to deliver the same content and the same learning experiences to every child in the same way every day based on their age. Time-limited system with variable learning for each individual child.
He continued, “The good news is that if we flip this equation, we move to a system where learning is reformed, by moving to a “positive sum” system where students go through the cycle of learning success, and begin to develop them as self-directed learners, and after the student has gone through this experience, Everyone will be moved towards that discipline as we include mastery as part of the learning experience.”
Collaboration and interdependence among students
Michael Horn stressed the importance of cooperation and interdependence among students, the natural human desire to help our fellow human beings can become stronger because we are not in competition for rare success, it is seats in the classroom, and while students work with each other through problems, it will help That is in teaching each other and learning from each other.
mastery way
Michael Horn pointed out that in a mastery-based system, you have to keep working on something until you master it to make progress, and it’s okay if you fail because failure is a step on the road to mastery, there is an opportunity we get for real-world experiences and the development of social capital, which They are critical to life’s success and life chances.
He pointed out that teachers have many tasks to do, and in fact we see that they must be superheroes for our students to succeed, as we asked them to do many tasks ranging from delivering content to managing the class, assessing and classifying students to guiding them, and helping them with their mental health and to help connect these tasks to external opportunities and real-world projects in order to use data to make decisions.
“I think the big shift we need to make is group teaching,” he said. “Teaching should be co-teaching with other teachers in classrooms with more students and developing their own skill sets. This allows teachers to spend more time with students who develop group learning, and encourages students to work together. Because in a group teaching environment we have a lot of adults in the room helping other students instead of the teacher spending time with the class.”
“We can harness those relationships further to create that interconnected support and positive progression, where schools can start spending more time helping parents as they lead their children because they are having conversations with them to foster a growth mindset and so on as well.”
Technology is not a panacea
Michael Horn pointed out that learning is no longer a rare resource when using the Internet, and one of the interesting things is the role of technology. While connected to the Internet, a person has the ability to communicate with experts everywhere, but technology is not a magic solution and will not give the magic answer to Child development, and each school and classroom may have to do different things with technology depending on their circumstances and the needs of the community of learners.
Tips for teachers
Michael Horn offers three tips for teachers in the classroom, and three tips for those who run schools or are considering the education system while implementing technology.
The first is that technology should be worthwhile, to save teachers time in their busy lives, and if it adds more burden to them, it has no benefit as much as it costs. Second, technology must expand the reach and awareness of teachers, enable them to do more than they can and increase their communication with students. And third, technology must help teachers develop a deeper understanding of the children they work with, and if that doesn’t result in more benefit, it may not be all that good for schools more broadly.
school tips
Regarding advice at the school level, Michael Horn said: – First, technology must improve the feedback cycle for learners themselves and for teachers, good technology must be the same as that which is being learned, giving continuous feedback for improvement, and must provide more feedback to teachers, parents and administrators .
Second, technology can enable experiences that we wouldn’t have before, whether through virtual reality and simulations that allow field trips to parts of the world and time paths we wouldn’t have imagined any other way, and we can do science experiments, things you can’t do from Through technology, as well as networking with experts and training courses, so a child who develops a particular passion can delve into that passion, and eventually, technologies must automate tedious, rule-based processes that can be automated.
And third, technology should never replace a human being. Instead, it should make our communication with each other more and technology save time that humans can do more. So that we can all make positive progress together. Because the future of our nation, the future of our society, our global future, and the future of every student is at stake in order to develop a world of cooperation, interconnectedness, communication, interaction at work and interdependence to ensure perfection, where we can truly develop that society in which we are all making positive progress together.
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