Present: Dana, Jenna, Lauren, Nick, Kenzie, Bella, Luke, Kira
This group focused on Freire’s idea that nobody is taught by another nor can teach themselves. People learn by trying to teach. Trying to teach something makes you think about whatever it is in different ways and encourages you to find deeper meaning behind it. The ability to relate and connect concepts or things you’re trying to understand to something personal is easy for yourself to remember is an effective learning strategy. Relating things to each other is more effective than memorization because we are forgetful. How many things did we already forget about that we “learned” in High School based on memorization? The answer, for almost everyone, is a lot of information was forgotten. In computer programming, there is an effective problem solving technique called “rubber duck debugging”. When someone has a problem, the point of this strategy is to talk about the issue (to a rubber duck) and hopefully finding the solution to it while talking/ thinking about it. I find this is similar to Freire’s idea in the sense that we need to take charge in our own learning and how actually talking about something will lead to successful learning/ problem solving.
