First Media Lesson

First Media Lesson

What does being clever mean?  was the first question asked when the lesson started.

After some discussion the conclusion was that there was no definition to being clever, it was all a matter of opinion and what you saw as clever, everyone could be clever in a different way, whether it be academical or practical.

After this a story was told about two students with the same GCSE grades, itchy and scratchy

Both were the same in academics but had been taught in different ways, Itchy had learnt by learning all the tricks and exam plans, basically just copying and doing what he was told to do. Scratchy had learnt in groups and done a lot of varied work, so when both students lost their jobs he was easily able to adapt and retrain to be something else, so easily found another. Itchy however, struggled and simply couldn't retrain, all because of the way he was taught in school.

This showed that learning is good when its varied and this is the main thing I took from the lesson