What can students do? The answer to this question lies in what you believe about the process of education and the role of the student. Reggio thought gets at this issue by articulating their vision of the child as genius and capable. This is in contrast to the mechanistic view of education that we have inherited from the Industrial Age which seems the child more as a blank slate to which we must rigorously add consistent, compatible and uniform inputs, like building a car or any assembled item on a production line.
If you believe children are already genius and subscribe to the idea that they need facilitators to define the path and be ready to help find knowledge and resource as needed, then you will offer students a wholly different learning environment and learning experience, one that is potentially problem-solving oriented, process-oriented, entrepreneurial and focused on skills and thinking development more so than content kill and drill.
What can students do? This video is from one of Tina Seelig's classes on entrepreneurialism at Stanford. These student are just a little older than middle school or high school students, but what they can do is nothing short of change the world. High school students, middle school students, and younger kids can as well....., that is, if we let them; if we help them, if we provide the proving grounds.
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