I return this week to my proposals to change Education. These ideas are specially designed for parents and nursery educators, but are extrapolated to other cycles, although, in the case of which we will deal today, learn without tokens, is especially necessary for the little ones.
The theory of use of cards in the classroom is that they will favor and consolidate what they have learned. And, being this debatable, the worrying thing is that they have become the almost unique model by which young children are instructed. And anything farter from the reality.
In order to learn something, children are supposed to repeat it and do many exercises to assimilate the concepts. But attention, we are talking about concepts such as colors, making series of objects or grouping them by characteristics, knowing the parts of your body or consolidating fine psychomotor skills.
However, all these are lessons that the child has naturally printed in his natural evolution program. And they are, in addition, knowledge that real life puts at your disposal if they are allowed to discover, ask, experience freely and play.
The chips have taken over the classroom. They are a succulent publishing business. They restrict the freedom of the child, prevent their complete body movement by keeping them seated against their natural needs and add strong pressure on them from an early age to do things right.
They can be used as playful and free resource, but never as a method of control, basic education and much less to evaluate the maturation or knowledge of the little ones.
Nature gives us children adapted to learn by listening, talking, moving, imitating and playing. That should be the basis on which we support their learning, not in making chips, color tokens, fill in cards or put stickers in series on a card. They need earth, stones, objects, words, songs and games. No chips
The teacher himself sees his ability to transmit and empathy towards his students conditioned on the obligation to keep them seated doing a task that for many is tedious, repetitive and useless, to fill in books of chips that are supposed to show that he knows the colors, knows how to count or distinguishes the hand from the head.
So My proposal to change Education is to let them learn without tokens and propose other different activities that stimulate your imagination, your creativity and your ability to understand.
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