PLN 12

In Will Richardson’s Better Learning or Better Learners? it talks about how students are being taught things in math, science, history, and english but how as a learner do we know how to interpret and take in what the teacher is saying. If students are being taught all of the concepts about their subjects but not understanding it then they should also be taught how to learn it. This article is so important because students are being taught valluable material but not being taught how to interpret it so it is being lost. Schools are taking the cheap way out and making teachers assign homework and tests, and does that really help the students? In my opinion yes and no we learn the material but is it the best way to learn the material? If students are not understanding how to remember the information put in front of them, then how will they learn. In my classes I know that I like how some teachers tell us what we need to be looking for and how to do everything, but in other classes the information put on the board does not stick wiith me at all and I struggle with that class. To education this matters because the schools are not doing their jobs if students are not learning the material that they need to because they don't know how to stick it in their mind. To the world if students are no learning the skills they need for college and later in life then how will they be able to be successful in life. That is Richardson's whole point in this article if a student wasn't taught how to learn how will they ever know what to do?