EDUCATE 'EM ALL

Image retreived from Pixabay under  CC0   licence From very early days of our life we are learning…we are learning independently by trials and errors. I cannot count how many times I’ve heard from my 2-years old son „no, no, no, don’t help me, I want to do it by myself”. By learning from others, by getting ready-made solutions, I guess we lost some part of our innate creativity. But there is no other way. By living in society, small children start to absorb  information at an exponential rate. So we, as the teachers, must learn how to teach wisely to protect/strengthen our students critical thinking and how to show our students that balanced collaboration can be so powerful. A key issue to start with is the importance of getting to know each other, when working in the group. I noticed that that in standard classroom, Students are really sensitive on whether I remember all of their names. Sometimes it’s hard with large groups, but it’s worth to find a way to memorize them. So

Image retreived from MaxPixel under CC0 licence Among many important issues that we have considered under the topic 2 (ONL Course) , my particular interest was raised by Open Educational Resources (OER) of which I had a very vague idea before. What are OER: "teaching, learning or research materials that are in the public domain or released with an intellectual property license that allows for free use, adaptation and distribution" [1]. I like this idea very much. Why...? Something that stayed in my mind after revising this topic, are our Moderator's words: How much from what you wrote/created during your work was actually made only of your original thoughts? Well, very little...so why not to share? Of course, like with every breakthrough concept, there are some controversies, sensitive problems (e.g. whether to share someone's "know how", how to protect materials from improper/dishonest usage, the quality of prepared materials, credibility issues).