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Diana Laufenberg is a professional teacher who has been teaching in many schools, such as rural Kansas school district, middle school student in Arizona, and science leadership academy in Pennsylvania. She gives explanation on how generations before hers go to school to get information because school is the only place where the information lived. However now, with the development of technology, the information is easy to access, we can even access to the information from own house. Why do kids have to go to school to get information if they no longer have to get there to get the information.
Diana Laufenberg does school in different way. I can say she used Project based learning to teach her students. The students work for their own selves, figure all the stuff out, visit some places, get information, all for and with themselves. She emphasizes experiental learning strongly.
The main point of the speech is that if we keep continue to look at education as if it’s about coming to school to get the information and not about experiental learning, empowering student voice and embracing failure, we’re missing the mark. Everything that everybody is talking about is nonsense if we keep having an educational system that doesn’t value these qualities because we won’t get there with standardize test or a culture of one right answer.
We know how to do better and it is time to do better.