Homework Assignment #10 - Analysis and Summary -

Tomohiro Oda

About the paper

All students pointed out the discussion of changing learning into lifelong activity from both sides of teachers and learners in order to make learning beyond schooling and training, as integration of classroom and daily activities.

About their own mindset of learning

Some students pointed out that differant domains seem to benifit most from differant approaches, and many students also pointed out that foundamental educations tend to be traditional and higher educations are closer to new mindset described in the paper.
I think it is not only technical or cultural issues but also political requirements.
Some friends of mine are high school teachers and they really want to support children's self-directed creativities.
They, however, can't let their students to spend time to do creative things because of preparation for university entrance exams (in Japan, a few children start the competition since kindergarden entrance exam) and "teaching guidelines" defined by government.

Another interesting point is problem-solving skills vs domain-oriented skills.
Jack pointed out that the current education systems seems too much narrowed into domain-oriented skills.
My question is how "problem-solving vs domain-oriented" and "active vs passive learning/teaching" relate each another. Are they orthogonal or somehow related?

Here are summary of votes by students whether the course influenced their mindset of learning.


I think Serina's comment to vote NO is quite interesting.
My understanding is that she captures learning process as individual basis.
I agree and I think collaborative learning will happen when self-directed motivations of individuals meet and different methods of learning augment each others.

Media and learning

The most student commented that our mindsets are framed by media, but its interpretations are interestingly different.