I thoroughly enjoyed all of the reading and video's on interactive, environmental learning. Coming from a fairly large family with four children, who are all 1 year apart, and two loving parents, there seizes to be any form of peace inside the house. Both my brothers are prescribed with ADHD and both my sister and my mom are prescribed with ADD, so sometimes my house can feel like God is pushing the fast-forward button on a dramatic reality TV show. Despite the household craziness, after reading and watching the information, I began to think back to my childhood, how it's affected me today and how privileged I am. While my dad was at work, my mom would pack a cooler and plan a day trip to a nature reserve, the beach, a park, or anything that hand enough space for four children to run around outside. Although the majority of my family is prescribed with some sort of "disorder" my parents never believed medicine would fix the problem. Yes, there was several behavior issues along the way, but I enjoyed seeing my family express their creativity instead in sitting for hours focusing so intensely on their homework due to Ritalin. My mom was able to detect our higher level of concentration and better performance in school if we were able to play outside.
Out of all the videos, I enjoyed Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity the most. He had a funny sense of humor and spoke the truth about our school system not only in America, but also on a global scale. It hurts me to think that someone will spend their entire life searching for a passion because it was overlook as a young child and known as "misbehaving". Ken Robinson and John Dewey's perspectives are very inspiring as well as educational. Because I am an education major, I have previously been introduced to John Dewey and this theories. He emphasized the importance of a strong community and how each person plays an important role because of their natural strengths. Additionally, he proposed that working with and in an environmental setting can only be beneficial.
I am very happy that this issue was addressed in this course because I think it is important for not just education majors to understand that the environment can be used for much more than a pretty picture. As the book University Colloquium: A Sustainable Future states that the environment is a simple solution to better concentration and overall health. All of the information has given me a different perspective. Instead of looking at a child who has a "disorder" and feeling sorry for them, I am going to think that they have some sort of creativity and charm about them that no one else possess. I hope to keep and practice this information as I travel inside the classroom and teach in the future.
Out of all the videos, I enjoyed Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity the most. He had a funny sense of humor and spoke the truth about our school system not only in America, but also on a global scale. It hurts me to think that someone will spend their entire life searching for a passion because it was overlook as a young child and known as "misbehaving". Ken Robinson and John Dewey's perspectives are very inspiring as well as educational. Because I am an education major, I have previously been introduced to John Dewey and this theories. He emphasized the importance of a strong community and how each person plays an important role because of their natural strengths. Additionally, he proposed that working with and in an environmental setting can only be beneficial.
I am very happy that this issue was addressed in this course because I think it is important for not just education majors to understand that the environment can be used for much more than a pretty picture. As the book University Colloquium: A Sustainable Future states that the environment is a simple solution to better concentration and overall health. All of the information has given me a different perspective. Instead of looking at a child who has a "disorder" and feeling sorry for them, I am going to think that they have some sort of creativity and charm about them that no one else possess. I hope to keep and practice this information as I travel inside the classroom and teach in the future.
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