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In her keynote speech at the 4th International Congress on Educational Innovation, Jennifer Groff, Educational Engineer at the MIT Media Lab, unveiled the seven principles of learning.
These are: learners at the center, the social nature of learning, emotions are integral to learning, recognize individual differences, stretching all students, use assessments for learning, and building horizontal connections.
Groff stated that in many countries around the world, including Mexico, there are cases in which schools, educational organizations or governments, decide to supply equipment like tablets to students to bring technology to new generations and innovate the model of teaching.
"However, they soon find that these devices don’t give as much support to teachers or students as expected. Eventually, they dismiss such initiative as a failure. But why don’t these kinds of actions work?" Groff asked more than 3,000 people –most of them teachers.
"The problem is that they hope tablets will improve everything magically," said the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University graduate –who began her career in the classroom as a teacher. "I quickly realized there was a great disconnect between what I learned in education school and what I could implement in the classroom, so I abandoned that idea and decided to start working directly with the system," she recalled.
Via Miloš Bajčetić
