Sunday, January 2
Thinking about learning…
This upcoming weekend Bill Wolf and I will be teaching at the main sessions at the Tennessee Christian Teen Convention in Gatlinburg. It’s a conference of right around 5,000 middle schoolers, high schoolers and adults.We have 4 sessions, 25 or so minutes in each session to teach the entire story of the Bible. I know, I know…”what are we thinking?” (well, blame Alan Bradford, he gave us the challenge…and in the words of Barney Stinson, “Challenge accepted!”)
This teaching opportunity has caused me to think in broad strokes about teaching, my teaching, how the church teaches, what these kids are used to hearing, a lot of different angles on learning and such. I think it’s been a good process.
That has led me, naturally, to think about the teaching at Crossings, the practices and approaches we have in place…that’s always a good thought process.
Then I found the short video below from Sir Ken Robinson on ‘changing education paradigms’…
Thoughts?
Mark Nelson at 7:00 PM 6comments
6 Comments
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at 9:42 PM
Mrs. Jake said... amen...Amen...AMEN!!!
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at 10:11 PM
said... That was fascinating. But it's definately a big ship to turn...
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at 10:33 PM
Gretchen Magruder said...
Wow, good stuff. Thanks, Mark!
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at 5:22 PM
-Jenni said...
Oh, man. TCTC. Brings back so many memories. Question. Will Apologetix be there?
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at 6:31 PM
said...
TCTC - Wow! that does bring back lots of memories! Praying for a great weekend. Please post an update afterwards!
Cindy-
at 3:23 PM
Craig said...
Mark,
first, it was good to see you for a few minutes at TCTC. Thanks to you and Bill for taking Alan's challenge. My crew, adults and students, were challenged by the weekend.
As for the video, it's brilliant. In terms of Church education I think the scholarly teachers / preachers tend to teach according to their own desired learning method rather than considering how others learn best.
It seems that most often the younger generations are not adept at learning by passively absorbing one dimensional, monologue sermons or sunday school teachings. Again, I think you and Bill did a great job of engaging the audience and allowing them to interact with the teaching. It's far more memorable that way i think.