My Response on 12 Brain/Mind Learning Principles in Action

Omar Saeed

My Response on 12 Brain/Mind Learning Principles in Action

There are several teaching methods that can be used for students. In the article, 12 Brain/Mind Learning Principles in Action, the teacher taught the students in her own particular technique. For example, she took them to the museum to see the Viking ship and the Viking mummy. From my point of view, this is a really a good way to teach the students. My teacher in Computer Engineering class was similar. In my computer engineering class, my teacher would teach us a lesson and encourage us to apply our new learned knowledge in the computer and get a better experience. He never made the class boring because we were learning in a fun way. In fact, at one point he let us work with routers to enhance our knowledge and make the class interesting. We were told to download a game, and in that game we fixed the routers.  In the article, it also states that “She took us on long hikes through meadows and woods and taught us about trees and where springs came from”. This way the students would have fun and also learn at the same time instead of taking notes for the whole class. He said that once he came in United States, the teaching was different and he also got text books for every class which he expressed was boring for him. I had a similar experience back home because the teachers never put an effort to make the class fun or different. All they did was gave us textbook work almost every day. This led few students into skipping the class. I think teachers should teach us from textbook sometimes but not all the time. Teachers should use other available tools such as videos to make lessons more interesting. In the YouTube video, Changing Education Paradigms, explains that there is too much distraction like TV and computers, and it also explains that the teacher is not teaching the class in a fun way. In the video it says that we should not be putting students to sleep, instead we should be waking them up. This clearly explains that classes should be fun and interesting so students get eager to pay attention and learn. This reminds me of my computer science class because in our first assignment we used a program called, scratch. Scratch was an easy program where we were able to make our own games. Therefore the class became very interesting and all the students were excited to come to class and experience something new daily.