Teachers meeting Helsinki May 2014
About teaching methods... Presupposition: Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think. Albert Einstein
How to teach History without being boring Example - Challenge students to make a movie about the twentieth century Conceptualisation Listen / Read/ Search Introspect/ Reflect/ Discuss Acquisition Understanding Applying knowledge
The film – The Common House 1º Create a story
2º Chose characters and scenary
3º Search for other videos, texts and images Perhaps the human being is incapable of forgetting anything. The operations of seeing and knowing are much too complicated for it to be possible completely to efface them again... Friedrich Nietzsche, in ’The Last Filosopher '
4º Compose a soundtrack 5º Edit the film