Educational Myths

The educational myth that was most surprising to me was the "I remember 10% of what I read". I have heard this so many times in so many different classes I didn't think to question it. I assumed the numbers were just estimations but "the experts" just put it in a graph to make things easier for people to understand. The engagement myth I already dismissed. I don't know why adults think children are so different from us. We aren't engaged in a lot of the things we do, even if we are "having fun" or "acting" as if we are engaged, why would we expect children to be any different. We expect so much out of kids these days, that it isn't surprising they have figured out how to pretend to be engaged when they have actually "checked out". I have seen it in my placement, some students will be "having fun" yet still have no idea really what is going on. Engagement is a really big key for a lot of professors. I know on some lessons plans that I have had to make there have been places that call for, "ways to keep students engaged", meaning how are you going to get them from getting distracted. How will you keep them moving, will you use technology to help with the engagement, will technology be your hook to get them started off engaged? In the future, I think to deal with educational myths, you have to sincere when you disagree with someone, but overall there isn't one right way to teach, and I would bring that up if someone was forcing me to change lessons. I would say thank you for the information, I would take it into consideration, and do some research but, everyone has all kinds of ideas in the education world, not all of them are right for everyone but if they work for you, then I say do what works for you, but I am going to try and do the best I can do for my students.