Juxtaposition Post 2

The video in which Dr. Tae says that learning how to skateboard can help with the process of classroom learning is both right and wrong.  Dr. Tae says that there are no teachers and grades in skateboarding. That obviously does not apply to school since we have to teachers to teach us the material. A student is not going to automatically know what they are supposed to learn or how to even learn it. Also, we have to have grades for school instead of the reward of just learning it. How do we know that we have learned something correctly if we are not tested on it? Having grades helps students know what they need to study more and what they already know pretty well.  The video’s audience is for educators and students so that they can be informed of other classroom learning techniques.  Since Dr. Tae is a skateboarder and student he can relate to what he explaining to people. By him being both a skateboarder and a student he has a better understanding of how the two different things relate to educating people.

There are some points that he made that can be applied to learning in a classroom like keep practicing until you get it right. Just like in skateboarding you have keep practicing tricks until you get it right. The same rule can apply to writing; if someone keeps practicing writing papers they will eventually get it right. No one does things perfect the first time it always takes practice. The rule can also apply to math. The more math problems a person does the more that they understand how to do them. He also says to keep working at it until you figure it out. The statement he said can be applied to learning how to write. A person has keeping working on their piece of rhetoric until they find a way to write it correctly. While Dr. Tae’s video on how skateboarding can be applied to classroom is both right and wrong it does have some interesting points that can help classroom learning.

-Megan Grimes (349)