Our first week consisted of us creating our blogs, reviewing some important articles/sites, while also watching the film “Most Likely To Succeed” and the TEDTalk “Education as if People Mattered” by Jeff Hopkins. Getting started in this course was a bit overwhelming, but now that I know about each of my weekly tasks I feel a lot better. I liked starting off with the “Most Likely to Succeed” film as I think it proposed a lot of ideas for us as future educators to consider. I especially liked how the teachers in the filmed questioned “why are we teaching things that students will never encounter in real life?” This is something I wrestled with when I was in school, wondering why I wasn’t being taught anything that would be useful to me in my future. The film did a great job of showcasing the potential there is for education to become more practical and student-directed. As a teacher, I want to be responsible for the high quality work that my students produce and not the test scores that show up on paper (as discussed in the film). Overall, I think we should definitely be talking about the influence of this film and what it means for the future of education. I hope we get the chance to look at more resources like this one.
