Introduction to Learning by Doing

This is a 10 minutes video that highlights real students working in teams to think about real world projects, studying everything from worms to robots. The main advantages to this type of learning is that kids retain more of what they are actually able to to, skills such as research and communication skills are easily embedded in the learning, and kids have a voice in what they are learning out. The excitement about learning is very noticeable.

In the middle part of the video, MIT mathemetician talks about the first step to transforming our practice to learning by doing is giving up the idea of a staid and set curriculum and exchange it for pushing and challenging student to think and tackle real work challenges in real time. Learning becomes less controlled and more expansive and creative. Students become managers of their own learning. Students learn knowledge by using it.