Meme: Passion Quilt

Another meme is doing the rounds of the edublogosphere at the moment, called the Passion Quilt meme.

I was tagged to contribute by Woody Delauer, a teacher from Maryland in the US, and asked to keep this meme going. (I think I was tagged by this a few weeks ago by someone else but we were in the middle of moving house at the time so it slipped through the cracks – sorry!)

The Passion Quilt meme works like this…

1. Think about what you are passionate about teaching your students
2. Post a picture from a source like FlickrCC or Flickr Creative Commons (or even find one marked as copyright but then write to the owner to ask permission).  You can also make/take your own of course.  This picture should capture the quality that YOU are most passionate for kids to learn.
3. Give your picture a short title.
4. Title your blog post “Meme: Passion Quilt” and link back to the blog entry that tagged you.
5. Include further links to 5 folks in your professional learning network or whom you follow on Twitter/Pownce.

For me, the thing I am most passionate about is getting students to develop their sense of curiosity about the world.  The idea that I might be able to to stimulate a kid’s sense of curiosity and wonder about the world, to build their sense of needing to know more about how and why the world works the way it does, to provoke their need to ask questions and find the answers… that’s what makes it worth going to work every day.

Curiosity makes the need to teach almost redundant.  Kids who are curious don’t need to be taught – they are too busy learning.  They question, they play, they wonder, they discover. They want to know how things work, and why.  They like to change things that make no sense to them, and in the process they can end up changing the world itself.  Students who are curious about why things are the way they are, and who question things endlessly, are the ones who are most likely to be able to change the future.  These kids don’t need teachers, they need wise guidance.

Yes, my passion is to give my students a sense of curiosity.  I liked the photo by gigglejuice, because I thought it captured that sense of discovery, of reaching out to touch new things, of crossing boundaries.  I’m going to title it, simply, “Discovery”.

So, what’s YOUR passion in education?

To keep the meme going, I’ll tag the following people…

• Helen Otway – http://helenotway.edublogs.org/
• Anna Adam – http://techchicktips.net/
• Elizabeth Helfant – http://helcat.org/wordpress/
• Fred Delventhal – http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/fred_delventhal1/
• Russel Montgomery – http://braindump.edublogs.org/
• Mick Prest – http://mickprest.edublogs.org/

Yes I know that’s 6 people, not 5, but I wanted to balance the guys with the girls…

Over to you!

Meme: Passion Quilt by Chris Betcher is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.