RE:Thinking Movie Claims Being ‘Good at School’ Means Knowing How to Play the ‘Game of School’
New York, NY (PRWEB) October 10, 2017 -- An important new documentary film, RE:THINKING, examines the education approaches of three public schools which are innovating learning in the United States. In an interview with CMRubinWorld, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Rachel Ferro explains that over the course of making the film she learned that “a traditional education does not encourage thinking, instead it encourages conforming to a system that doesn’t value the individual child and completely misses the point when it comes to learning.” Ferro argues that when a student is used to being meta-cognitive they can, “take ownership over their own learning process,” and that this, “leads to much deeper understanding of whatever it is they are learning about.”
When asked by C.M. Rubin what being “good at school” should mean, Ferro discusses the importance of building new knowledge: “…being good at school should mean asking questions instead of memorizing answers…understanding how you think about things and using that knowledge for the purpose of building new knowledge rather than just consuming information.”
While teachers in the three schools featured agreed it was hard to predict exactly what students will need to know in the future, Ferro says they acknowledge that students need to be “flexible” with the ability to work “collaboratively” and to, “embody what it means to be a lifelong learner.”
Rachel Ferro has been the lead editor and cinematographer at Photosynthesis Productions LLC since January 2014. She is also the Director of Video at Floralia Films. She produced the documentary film, Tell Me the Day Backwards.
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