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# Teaching
- URL: https://www.woll.io/journal/teaching/
- Published: 2020-05-25T21:02:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-08T20:05:24.000Z
- Author: David Wollschlegel
- Tags: Interaction Design Methods, design, ZHdK, #Import 2025-08-30 22:09

**What is learning and what makes a good student? What is teaching and what makes a good teacher?**

In todays class we taught each other small skills like using the terminal on your computer, folding a shirt in a special burrito like way, sketching a hand or constructing a fancy geometric shape. During this experiment I realised that everyone was at least a little bit curious about what we were about to learn. Also everybody was somehow proud to share and teach his skill. So I think everybody likes to exchange knowledge. But why do some people hate going to school or hate teaching? For me factors that motivate this are the following:

1. Difficulty – teaching or learning stuff that is too easy, or to challenging) => the flow moment
2. Relatability – teaching or learning something that is related to you.
3. Amount of information – not only difficulty but also the amount of knowledge influences the fun
4. Progress - when progress is seen
5. Priority - there are times in your life, when acquiring a new skill is not the most important thing to do

For me a good student and a good teacher are persons that are able to dose the different factors. Patience and will are then the resources that are needed, whether those factors are not right dosed.

## Readings

Ackermann, Edith K. 2016\. “Learning to Code: What is it? What’s In It For The Kids?— A Tribute to Seymour Papert". Trans. version from publication in Tecnologie didattiche (TD 27-2002).

Moriwaki, Katherine & Brucker-Cohen, J. 2006\. “Lessons from the scrapyard: creative uses of found materials within a workshop setting”. In AI & Society. 20:4\. 506-525.