Blog Three

"Children learning by doing, exercising their bodies as well as their minds, and venturing out of the classroom to explore the world of work and the wonders of nature." (77)

 In my opinion, I believe that the term "learning by doing" to be an effective way to learn faster. Because you get to engage in the activity that's presented. I believe that everything we do in this world or in life, in general, is from experience, whether it's a job, riding a bike, a new language, etc…

 For example, let's say that I wanted to learn how to build my own computer, I can easily go on YouTube and watched all the videos there is and still won't know how to build one, I will be able to learn some components but not enough to help build the computer. The reason is that I'm only watching without having the physical components in front of me if I had done that I would have been able to learn more and recall most of the stuff.

 I also believe that learning is an experiment, you will never learn until you try, for example building an aeroplane, science project, Rocket launcher etc. When I think of the term "learning", I think about how did mankind were able to build an aeroplane and make it fly or how were the Russians were able to launch the sputnik. All these things require a lot of experiments and learning from failures.

John Dewey was against of how students were being educated and schools in general. The reason might be because students were being taught things that would barely benefit them in the future. If you look back at the early 1900s where kids would have to go to school and work to help support their family.  At school students were in cold classroom with a bad atmosphere. This makes learning very challenging because the children are uncomfortable, and they have to sit in a cold classroom for long hours. The students were definitely wasn't able to focus in class because their brain is focusing on finding warmth. That's why the majority of student's during that time period would rather work than going to school. Because school doesn't benefit them in terms of getting a better job, even though their workplace might have the same atmosphere as their school, but it benefited them in helping out their families. I know you guys might think how does "learning by doing" falls in that category, well because if all the students were being thought that way they wouldn't choose to work instead of going to school because the school would have been fun and benefited them more. Because students will get to interact with their environment to adapt and learn.