If You’re Going to Give Them Garbage
This is a short post to share with you all a quote I just read for the first time today:
“Far less interesting to me than whether a student has learned what he was supposed to is the question, ‘Has the child been given something to do worth learning?'”
And,
“If you’re giving them garbage to do … you may have to bribe them to do it.”
– Alfie Kohn
The video shown below does a great job of using The Office to embody what Alfie Kohn is talking about.
How many classrooms still operate like this?
This is a short post, so I wont comment any further. Draw your own conclusions.