TEACHER, CAN I HAVE MORE TASKS?

Teacher, can I have MORE tasks? Would love to be that kid in school, happy to get homework and ask for more. Greedy smurfs 😉 I did not like homework, it was boring memorizing history and geography stuff.
Can we imagine a primary school in the future where kids love to learn? Why are kids REALLY-REALLY bored? More bored than I was? Going nuts? Needing medication to focus?

Better than Sir Ken Robinson I cannot describe it;”Our Children are Living in the most intensive stimulating Period in the History of the Earth“. We need to find an answer to this challenge.  I was asked to write a small article for a pedagogical magazine going to primary school teachers and boards. It’s article for IJsselgroep, Iselinge Hogeschool in the Netherlands: “Teacher can I have more tasks? and why teachers will have precious time left again” (in Dutch page 6-7) It’s the start of my quest in understanding why children are bored in school and why change will happen.

In summary; At home through play children develop 8 of 8 core brain activities. In school only 3 of 8 really get stimulated, ofcourse they are bored. Change is possible, as for the first time in history teachers, parents AND children are screaming for a shift in ‘schooling’.

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