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The Changing Game of Education with Ana Lorena Fabrega

Feb 13, 2024

Ana Lorena Fabrega, an author and edupreneur, discusses the flaws of the traditional education system, emphasizing the importance of nurturing children's curiosity. She highlights the impact of gamification, stoicism, and parental involvement in shaping a more effective educational journey. Topics include the limitations of the traditional education system, the negative impact of excessive sitting time, and the importance of developing anti-fragility in children.

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Ana Lorena Fabrega

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Quick takeaways

The traditional education system focuses on obedience and conformity, hindering creativity and problem-solving abilities.

Parental involvement plays a crucial role in a child's education.

The current education system is failing students and needs significant reform.

Children are capable of incredible achievements if directed towards their obsessions.

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Traditional education system flaws

The podcast discusses the flaws within the traditional education system and emphasizes the need to nurture children's curiosity and passion for learning. The system, which has remained largely unchanged for over 200 years, prioritizes obedience over curiosity and fails to prepare students for the rapidly changing world. It perpetuates standardized learning, external validation, and conformity, hindering the development of independent thinking and creative problem-solving skills. It focuses on remediating weaknesses rather than nurturing strengths, causing students to lose their innate desire to learn. Recognizing and unlearning these damaging lessons is critical for building a generation of lifelong learners who can adapt and thrive in an ever-changing world.

Introduction

2min

The Limitations of the Traditional Education System

18min

The Flaws of the Education System

34min

2min

Finding New Perspectives and the Importance of Downtime

5min

Developing Anti-Fragility in Children

15min

Parenting, Montessori Shelves, and Expanding Interests

3min

The Importance of Parental Support in Education

2min

Ana Lorena Fábrega is an author, edupreneur, and Chief Evangelist at Synthesis. Growing up, she attended ten schools in seven different countries. She then earned her BS in Childhood Education and Special Education from New YorkUniversity and taught elementary school in New York, Boston, and Panama. Today, Ana Lorena writes online to over 250,000 readers about the promise of alternative education. Ana believes that our current education system operates under outdated ideologies, holding back children from learning what’s important.

Ana joined us today to talk about her book, ‘The Learning Game: Teaching Kids to Think for Themselves, Embrace Challenges, and Love Learning.’

As a former teacher and author, Ana brings a wealth of insight on the flaws within the traditional education system and the essential need to nurture children's inherent curiosity and passion for learning. Join us as we cover the impact of gamification, stoicism, and the pivotal role of parental involvement in shaping a more effective and fulfilling educational journey for children.

[06.06] The game of school – Starting the conversation, Ana explains the game of school and how it builds students without creativity and problem solving.

[14.10] Parenting – The best teacher children can have are their parents.

[20.32] System failing – Ana talks about how the current education system is failing students.

[30.00] Obsessions – We talk about how children are capable of doing incredible things if they are directed towards their passions and obsessions.

[37.00] Gamification – Ana explains how gamification can be applied to the education system to increase motivation to learn among children.

[44.15] Storytelling - Stories are one of the best ways to get children hooked on what they are going to be learning about.

[48.00] Questioning – Asking questions is one way of learning things. We talk about why children stop asking questions at certain ages.

[58.00] Boredom – The importance of boredom in the lives of children.

[01.01.25] Fragility of children – We dive into how overprotectiveness with the best intentions can make children fragile.

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Website - afabrega.com/

Newsletter - https://afabrega.com/newsletter