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Active Learning | Keisha Mukasa | TEDxUWCSA


I hate the word stupid till today
it kind of had to be when people say I
mean it’s such a mean would my stops for
nozzle memories I had one of those nasty
teachers besides in the second grade
literacy through the weather and because
they deflected so much I did everything
I possibly could to ensure I was in
college in video but on an unfortunate
occasion eyford to have a look in over
work on the bus when the bus driver made
a sharp turn and my readiness builds all
over people’s messes there was so much
that it led updating the pollinators now
me not being able to hand in my work was
intuitive I thought I had the evidence
all of the medicine but when I walked
into class my teacher had the audacity
to say that I was like and then
proceeded to call me stupid
in my mind I was like how dare he I make
one mistake and that’s supposed to
divide my into it even was I had done
the work
this incident repented my schooling life
you make one mistake
and all of a sudden you mean to feel
stupid if you want to have one kind of
you know the kind who put their hands up
all the time how can you do things as
quickly as possible and ask why why are
any of this year
I couldn’t come up with an honest answer
I settled with I want to get an
education but to be quite frankly
ologist I don’t really know what that
means
so instead of getting lost in the world
of ifs and wise I can’t turn to them
whether I liked it or not and yeah so
I’m not anything need to start a
revolution to demolish this education
system but rather I think we’re talking
about why we’re here and to get to
manana menu
firstly George something stupid the
education system is more achievement
center than conservatives and then in
the terminus I asked what did you get in
terms of points rather than a seven
drama but your intelligence doesn’t have
to be divided by a number all within the
confines of classroom go open it
subjects in your typical capabilities
right there what if a syllabus is like
cooking or treaty rights you or
imagination class or survival skills I
don’t know any one of those things don’t
you think it’d be kind of different
anyway and we weren’t trying to fail
it’s not about what the system cleans us
the rather OGT miss offers the best
advice I got a little friend a subject I
wasn’t it – well it was the studies of
you didn’t and funny enough migrating
moved over it’s easy to get caught up in
the short term nursing school whether
it’s your test score in tenth grade or
rightly
my organs are important but they’re
simply lose to something else
and what I think is one input it is
making progress now my favorite person
in the world is mine
and if you have a nightly opportunity to
get oh sorry to tell you but you’re busy
tonight anyway
at school and then every chapter
is an opportunity to win a woman as the
attainment award and there’s the brokest
now questa has won the Provost Award
three times in a row I don’t know what
when all the other kids in his class
class world were anything but three
times in rows the rods kind of it would
mean that particular particulate are
yourself just that the progress order
but instead of feeling down he’d
knowledge is with the ethmoid his
classes the smartest but his contact
with the progress over because he has a
physical proof that he’s making progress
moving forward not anybody else
so why not able to do that make progress
because in that isn’t that what we can
really do linearity of the education
system makes it seem as though all
people born in this year the capacities
the same thing the same rate pass and
move on to thing then move on to the
next age 17 or also the education system
has America ideas for the learning will
need to soleus Lucy’s learning with
whiteboards and tedious assignments and
classrooms so that I believe that the
best way to learn is to experience so I
was lucky enough to go to
Hammond’s insulin that helped that into
all the kids with average two main
things told me about the classes firstly
they had classified instead we just
along the streets of Havana playing
games with the clues and reading maps
and talking to the shopkeepers and
pedestrians Olivette well and then
secondly our classes had students with
ages ranging from 11 to 19 I was greatly
humbled when I had to do when we had to
correct all of your pairs
My partner was an 11 year old boy named
Lawrence now what we have assumed that I
was doing was talking to correct or hate
he stood over me denouncing my grandma
spending and would keep some question to
my appointment he called in his 12 year
old sister this may have crushed my
pride but it did help my friend now I
understand the normal things are given
you are applicable to a particular
context but my message remains the same
the active was watching enough to be in
an environment with so much of the
learning happens outside of the
classroom and I let up to cook for my
concert how to work with people from
different interests with after-school
activity and a being a teacher is the
hardest and initially all these things
will go over my head but if I understand
that learning is something I will
continue on finally people the things we
learned shape who we are and I care
about the type of person
twenty years from now so I want to take
charge of me dig try to decide what i
acquire and why and how I want be
enacted
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