Video Reflection

Video Reflection

                This video explained a lot about the kinesthetic learning process.  These kids get a chance to go to a camp and build things without having to worry about their parents hassling them about their learning habits.

                I think that this is a great idea.  There are so many kinesthetic learners in the world that don’t have the resources to be able to learn this way.  This camp gives these kids a chance to learn about building things in a safe environment.  They also have the opportunity to learn how trial and error is worth the feeling of success at the end of a project.  The camp must also do wonders for their social skills because they work in teams and share the success and the failures.

                Our education system could definitely learn from these teaching practices.  If there were more classes that focused on the kinesthetic way of learning, I think there would be a much higher student success rate.  Instructors do try very hard to conform to everyone’s learning styles, but there is only so much they can do.

                I have been lucky by being able to learn in many different ways.  I can usually learn by any means necessary because that is what I had to do in high school.  Every one of my instructors taught things in a different manner than the last, which meant that I either had to pick up on it or risk failing.  I think if I had to pick one though, I would have to choose kinesthetic learning.  This is because I find it much easier to learn things by just doing them.  The only example I can think of is when I started working at my job.  I only had to do something once in order to figure it out.  No one was going to take me by the hand and show me step by step how to do these things, so I just  learned by repetitively doing different things on the job. 

                I think the thing that stood out for me in this video was when he said, “Success is in the doing, the failures are celebrated and analyzed.  Problems become puzzles and obstacles disappear.”  This made me think about what learning really is.  It is about finding out how to overcome obstacles and how to learn from your failures, rather than dwell on them.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/gever_tulley_s_tinkering_school_in_action.html