TED 演讲稿怎样从错误中学习.docx

I have been teaching for a long time,?and in doing so?have acquired a body of knowledge about kids and learning?that I really wish more people would understand?about the potential of students.?In 1931, my grandmother --?bottom left for you guys over here --?graduated from the eighth grade.?She went to school to get the information?because thats where the information lived.?It was in the books; it was inside the teachers head;?and she needed to go there to get the information,?because thats how you learned.?Fast-forward a generation:?this is the one-room schoolhouse, Oak Grove,?where my father went to a one-room schoolhouse.?And he again had to travel to the school?to get the information from the teacher,?stored it in the only portable memory he has, which is inside his own head,?and take it with him,?because that is how information was being transported?from teacher to student and then used in the world.When I was a kid,?we had a set of encyclopedias at my house.?It was purchased the year I was born,?and it was extraordinary,?because I did not have to wait to go to the library to get to the information.?The information was inside my house?and it was awesome.?This was differentthan either generation had experienced before,?and it changed the way I interacted with information?even at just a small level.?But the information was closer to me.?I could get access to it.In the time that passes?between when I was a kid in high school?and when I started teaching,we really see the advent of the Internet.?Right about the time that the Internet gets going?as an educational tool,?I take off from Wisconsin?and move to Kansas, small town Kansas,?where I had an opportunity to teach?in a lovely, small-town,?rural Kansas school district,?where I was teaching my favorite subject,?American government.?My first year -- super gung-ho -- going to teach American government,?loved the political system.?Kids in the 12th grade:?not exactly all that enthusiastic?about the American government s