TINKERING SCHOOL

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

First of all, I want to say I really liked this Gever Tulley’s video. I think he has a very good point of view about teaching, specifically in an interesting and new way. I never though or imagined that teachers could do their classes very active where students participate and make the class more than teachers. It really pays my attention and of course I would like to teach like him.
Unfortunately, I believe that this “Tinkering school” applied to Chilean public classrooms is kind of complicated nowadays because we are not prepared to use this method yet. It is a process in which teachers have to change their mind, learn and take classes to use this interesting and amazing way where students are one hundred percent participating in class and using their imagination to produce something.
I thing if we apply this concept to our Chilean public classrooms, students are going to be more interest to learn, schools are going to be well saw, and public schools are going to change drastically in a positive way. I think that now in the present, students have to be the focus in the classroom. For that reason, I believe that taking and applying tinkering school, learning process is going to improve a lot. I like the idea to use dangerous thing because in our life our environment, we are espouse to that, therefore, we have to be able to deal with that, we have to learn how to use it, etc.

USING SOUNDS IN THE CLASSROOM

During my reading, I remember last Language lesson in which we had to listen and recognize what sound we heard. To be honest, I really enjoyed that class and I believe that all of us were interest too. Therefore, after have read this article, I realize we can be able to use different kind of activities in class to make the process of learning more dynamic, creative, different, and things like that.
That is why, something that really got my attention in this article was the Lesson plan “A child’s day”: Cambodia in which students can realize the life of those children from this place to compare or find similitude with their life. It help us to know and learn more about culture, better if we learn it through listening, showing some information about those children from Cambodia, where the place is located, etc. For that reason, I would like to make this kind of activities in the classroom using technology that we have in our hands nowadays to be like a modern teacher who enjoys that their students can learn through this medium.
So, as future teacher, I would like to use for example, the activity we did on page 151 (Straightforward) in which we had to create a short story with the sound mentioned in the book because we have to create a nice stories. Other activity could be, let students to write or draw in which they can show us what they heard during the listening, what they heard about life, real and cruel experience, etc. This activity plus to improve our listening skill, it helps us to present and show students about little story of some place and some cultures present in the world.

Vocabulary

sense:a natural appreciation or ability

visual skills:ways of seeing

background noise:extraneous noise contaminating sound

whisper:speak softly

instrument:implement

rhythm: time, manner of speaking