The more you’re taught, the less you know | Stephen Baldridge | TEDxACU

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Published 2015-05-11
In his talk, Stephen considers what it might mean to change the mantra of education from “learning anywhere, anytime” to “learning everywhere, all of the time” to create fluid, active environments that mimic the way brains are more inclined to learn.

Stephen is a career social worker with a passion for teaching. His research and work in education and teaching methods have been internationally recognized, and he consults with school districts and universities around the nation, helping them become more active teachers and use the most interactive and evidence-based methods of learning.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
All Comments (21)
  • @georgegalamb7523
    Many people are misunderstanding the title of this talk, and so are thinking: "Misleading title". But why? Just think more carefully about it. He was talking about: - when you're being "taught" in a classroom, - you, as a student, - tend to having a hard time capturing most of the learning material/content that the lecturer is trying to teach you. While on the other hand, if you’re being taught on a more thoughtful and updated, scientifically proven way, along with current technological devices and the power of the Internet and its continuously evolving apps and websites and social-networks, and so on, you would be able to be more effectively memorize what you’ll need to remember and understand about each lesson’s content and reasons of why you need to “know” those lesson in the first place.  This is why this talk is being titled: "The more you're taught, the less you know", - simply because you as a student tend to quickly forget what the teacher has "taught" you. So, it is simply outdated to learn the old-fashioned way. Sure the title could have been more informatively titled like: “The more you’re taught the old-fashioned way, the less you’ll remember”.
  • @bethel99899
    Excellent talk Stephen.  We're made to move. To learn on the move. Adapt/evolve/be water.  Added to my everyday listening playlist.
  • @Robbie_Bobb
    So glad to have Dr. Baldridge as a professor. His classes are absolutely wonderful.
  • @cwstreeper
    Such an amazing topic to explore. I love using phones and other technology in my classroom. However, I often tell my students that although they have the entire world at their fingertips... we are now drowning in information. It is important to teach the students how to navigate the system and utilize it properly, especially if we are going to use it as an educational tool.
  • @justinspykerman
    I dropped out of school because it was boring and they didn't teach or care what I wanted to learn, that's the problem with education. My teaches made me feel like what I thought didn't matter and they never ever asked me what I wanted to learn.
  • @mrs.waight7326
    The one thing of value I have taken from this video is; "The perpetually sought after solutions to our problems is the continual posting of videos such as these". There is no solution. We are all human flesh and ultimately fail and die!! The question is?? What's next?
  • @ShannenGranger
    watching this to get some inspiration for my ToK essay lmao
  • @azuraq25
    First, circumscribing public transportation as a condition of poverty misunderstands why public transportation is a social benefit. It is a communal equalizer that reduces pollution while serving the immediate environment. Also, if you're going to cite quantities of information possible to access with cell phones and gadgets, then dismissing the very real, cumulative effect of books and formal education upon our culture is counterintuitive. Of course, access to gadgets could very well allow a person to learn Urdu, master finance and open them up to a world of disparate opinions, but what is more likely is that same person will be too distracted to dedicate themselves to another language, forget why anyone else's opinion matters and find comfort in whatever fad tickles their notion of humor at that time. The possibilities may be endless, but the outcomes are quite easily predicted.
  • @TreeCamper
    The problem is monetization. Corporations and institutions don't want any part of this way of thinking. Big business and the corporate machine have a stranglehold on politics and law, and it will do everything in it's power to keep it that way. Large entities are run by people who are so far removed from blame by layers of hierarchy that it's nearly impossible to hold them accountable. All life is somewhat selfish, otherwise it wouldn't be successful.
  • @alejandrogangotena9033
    public transportation in Ecuador: text1: everyone is looking at me. text2:Wait, they are looking at my phone -----no more messages---
  • @GaryLongsine
    This isn't the worst TED Talk of all time, but it's in the running.
  • @funnatopia704
    lectures are teachers talking at students, not with them.