Chapter 6 was focused around the design of learning environments. There are many different places now where children can learn from throughout the world. Schooling has drastically changed over the years and has shifted around a good bit. Looking back to the 1800s, literature and writing were vastly different in the ways they are expressed today. There are greater opportunities now on different social media platforms where we have the ability to express what we learn to others on a broader community. As the book states, “today, students need to understand the current state of their knowledge and to build on it, improve it, and make decisions.” There are also these perspectives in learning environments that chapter 6 looked at. These are learner centered, knowledge centered, and assessment centered. Each one of these provides a different approach for children to learn from. Teachers should try and help these come in an alignment among these environments to help learning.
In chapter 7, it looked into effective teaching with the use of examples in the subjects history, mathematics, and science. Some teachers are able to teach in ways that involve a variety of disciplines. Within history, many kids don’t enjoy it because they don’t see the point in memorizing a bunch of dates. Good history teachers can flip this and make the dates not as important as them missing out on the whole material. For mathematics, many kids think it is all about computation. They do not fully grasp on how learning math will be beneficial down the road. Effective teaching can be used to show how multiplication has meaning and how in the future certain lessons will be beneficial. Science often gets over many kids heads according to the book. Many kids see science as too experimental and not understanding the key terms. Effective teaching would show kids that science is used day in and day out through life lessons. Effective teaching is so crucial in schools to help children have the best learning resources available.
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