Despite this video being made in the nineties, I really enjoyed it and believe it to still hold a lot of truth and validity to what needs to be done today in order to change the way students learn. The video showed us different scenarios in which the long held belief of "telling is teaching" is in fact not the best way to teach and that it does not help students comprehend and does not actually help the students learn, but rather a way of getting through information.

A couple of key points that I took from the video include:
1. The teacher must recognize that children have their own minds and beliefs and that if this isn't taken into account, students fail to learn.
2. The teacher must not believe that what may be obvious to them will be obvious to their student.
3. It is crucial to encourage students to ask questions, create an environment where they can use hands-on experiments to test their ideas that will allow them to create logic themselves so that they can take ownership of what they have learned.
4. Students will be able to go beyond the lesson taught when they ask those questions that are in depth and can be applied to more than the lesson itself.

I learned that being a teacher is not simply getting through chapters in a book, or giving them the answers, but rather a method that will require patience on the teacher's part, will undoubtedly be frustrating to students and may require students to let go of something they previously have held as a belief. In essence, it will be turning everything we have learned about teaching upside down.

In my future teaching, I will, without a doubt, be that teacher that is always getting questioned by my principal, and parents on my methods of teaching. I will apply what I saw in this video and what I am about to learn in this class to each lesson I give. I will assess as best I can to what my students already know before going in to a lesson. I will allow my students to collaborate with one another, ask more questions when asked a question and allow them to express themselves and test their ideas.

Our first class from beginning to end, was based on these principals. Dr. Kruse was assessing our knowledge of what type of thinkers we are by asking us questions. During our time setting up our Google+ and Blogger accounts, no answers were directly given. We were either pointed in the right direction, or asked to seek out help from a fellow classmate.  Dr. Kruse had us working together as class and seeking out others for help.  He challenged us to arrive at the answer ourselves through trial and error so that we were able to take ownership.

My simple question is, "Why is this not the way teachers are teaching their students?" It is sad that I may already have the answer in that it takes time, will create a lot of frustration from students, is unconventional, and politics play a huge part in the way that teachers can teach.