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Summary of 'How to Learn? From Mistake' by Diana Laufenberg

Diana Laufenberg has been teaching for a long time. So, she has a lot of information about how to teach and how the students learn. In 1931, her grandmother went to school to get the information because that’s where the information lived. The information was being transported from teacher to student and then used in the world. However, when Diana was in school, she had a set of encyclopedias at her house so that she did not have to go to the library to get the information.
When Diana started teaching in Kansas, the internet bacame popular. But she taught the student with the authenticity, she allowed students to learn for themselve. she believed that the students would show up. She had to just sit and watch.
When she moved to teach in Arizona, her students and she met Paul Rusesabagina who is the gentleman that the movie “Hotel Rwanda” is based after. He was going to speak at the high school next door to them and they could walk there. Then, they look at him as an example of  who singularly used his life to do something positive. After that, Diana challanged the students to identify someone in their own life or in their own story or in their own world that had done a similar thing. Then, she asked them to produce a little movie about it and asked them to put their own voice over it.
In Philadelphia, they have to have one-to-one laptop program, so the students were bringing laptops with them everyday to get access to information. Diana’s students produced an info-graphic. She asked them to take the examples that they were seeing of the info-graphics that existed in alot of mass media. She allowed them to fail because learning has to include an amount of failure. Failure is instructional in the process.

Diana tell us that the students have to come to school to get the information, but instead ask them what they can do with it. Ask them to go to places to see things for themselves, to actually experience the learning, to play, to inquire. The main point is if we continue to look at education as if it’s about coming to school to get the information and not about experiential learning, empowering students voice and embracing failure.

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