How can the concept of “tinkering school” be applied to Chilean public classrooms?

First of all, it is important for me to mention that tinkering school is something that I strongly believe that is that should be applied in public Chilean education. The concept of this school stimulates aspects that it seems to me are missing in our scholar system, especially in the public system, such as the creativity, autonomy, self-confidence and working in teams. These aspects are missing because most of the schools in Chile are worried of getting good results in the standard test like SIMCE and PSU instead of concerning in the things that are really important in education; form human beings.

I consider that the concept of the tinkering school should help a lot in make of the Chilean education something better. In the Chilean schools people is not educating, because they are not there to be good human beings they are just receiving instruction to get adapted in the society that we live, which is selfish and do not consider the possibility of working in groups, as the children from this school do, so the first thing important to apply from tinkering school in Chilean public school would be that, the working in teams where people really collaborate to each other and not working in groups as students do in which each of the integrants work alone. Also, it is important to develop the aspects mentioned in the first paragraph. Creativity should be applied as in the video Gever says that children learn doing. Autonomy can be develop giving the students the possibility of creating things and do not repressing to student to do the things as the teacher like, which is totally connected to creativity and would help to improve self-confidence in students.

If the concept of tinkering school were applied in the Chilean public classroom it could help a lot in order to make of education something better because it would help to people to be more human and not to work all life to get the results that society expects. If at school children really learnt to be human being- as must be- then our society can be totally different.

Using Sound in the Classroom

Words........


sight
breathing
wishper
muttering
a heart beat
car's horn


When I saw the post and I saw the activity we had to do I did not figure out how the activities were going to be about. I did not have expectations about it. My first impression was that it was interesting. I have never thought that there were many activities that teachers can do in the classroom to practice listening skills and attentiveness. I think those activities are good for people like me who tend to loose the attention when they see a fly in the air. With the activities that are presented on the webpage, I remembered the activity that we did in a language lesson in which we had to pay attention to the sounds that we heard which was very interesting and now that I relate it with the lesson from the webpage I think it was much more interesting because it can be very useful especially for me to practice my listening skills and attentiveness.

Then, I saw the lesson plans that were in the webpage and I really like them. I consider that they are very creative and motivating for the students because those activities are not the typical ones that teachers do at schools. I liked the “Unraveling a cultural mystery: Nepal” lesson plan because I like the way the activy is developed. I like that students are introduced to the activity through little narrations that put to students in context and make the activity more attractive because they would feel that they are protagonist in the story and then when they hear the sounds they get in to it. I also like it because I think that with this activity, students can not only practice listening skills, they also practice speaking when they share their ideas. So this is a very interactive lesson plan and because of that I love it! I hope you like it too!