[00:25.60]Education in the Air
[00:31.06]Integrated Skills Development
[00:36.81]Passage
[00:40.86]Open Education
[00:45.22]In traditional education,
[00:50.39]the teacher may feel that the students are not very grown up.
[00:56.35]Usually, teachers are older than students,
[01:01.20]and teachers feel that students are young
[01:05.75]and do not know very much about the world.
[01:10.71]The teachers feel that they must tell the students
[01:15.99]what to do most of the time,
[01:19.96]and that they must make the students study specific things.
[01:26.02]In open education, the teacher's feelings are very different.
[01:33.39]These teachers feel that the students are individuals first,
[01:39.74]and students second.
[01:44.20]They expect the students to be responsible for the things that they do.
[01:50.73]The teacher allows the students to decide what they want to do,
[01:57.79]and does not make them study specific subjects or things.
[02:03.85]The teacher lets them decide what to study and how much to study.
[02:11.42]The second part of the idea of open education
[02:18.08]has to do with what the teacher does in the classroom.
[02:23.83]In the traditional classroom, the students are told what to do.
[02:31.41]There is a list of things that the students must do to finish the class.
[02:38.35]There are rules made by the teacher that the students must follow,
[02:45.33]even if the students see no reason for the rules.
[02:51.28]In open education,
[02:55.65]the teacher allows the students to choose what to do.
[03:01.71]There are no specific things for the students to do.
[03:07.35]There are no traditional rules made by the teacher.
[03:13.59]The students are allowed to discover subjects in the open classroom,
[03:21.25]instead of being made to study them.
[03:26.21]There are some very good things about open education.
[03:32.77]This way of teaching allows the students to grow as people,
[03:39.32]and to develop their own interests in many subjects.
[03:45.07]Open education allows students
[03:49.43]to be responsible for their own education.
[03:54.16]Some students do badly in a traditional classroom.
[04:00.20]The open classroom may allow them to enjoy learning.
[04:06.26]Some students will be happier in an open education school.
[04:13.31]They will not have to worry about grades or rules.
[04:19.08]But many students will not do well in an open classroom.
[04:26.03]They will not make good use of open education.
[04:31.99]Because open education is so different from traditional education,
[04:38.75]these students may have a problem getting
[04:43.72]used to making so many choices.
[04:48.26]For many students it is important to have some rules in the classroom.
[04:54.92]They worry about the rules even when there are no rules.
[05:01.09]Even a few rules will help this kind of students.
[05:07.15]So far some of
[05:10.99]the good points and bad points of open education have been explained.
[05:17.75]The writer thinks that open education is a good idea,
[05:23.68]but only in theory. What do you think?
