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She also created a musical-chairs-style writing assignment for the discussion questions. She would play music on her record player and students had to start writing an answer to the question. When the music stopped, everyone had to get up and find a new seat, read what was written by the student who previously occupied that seat, and then the music started again and the students had to add to what was already written.

“They were so engaged,” Wolting said. “I didn’t have to worry about people opening up different tabs, or someone not having a charged Chromebook.”

Es tan evidente que trabajar de esa manera es más engaging para las y los estudiantes, que me deprime pensar en cómo podemos ser tan susceptibles a modas, dejando de usar nuestra capacidad para el pensamiento crítico.

Los seres humanos estamos biológicamente sesgados a aprender de y con otros. Si bien los dispositivos tecnológicos pueden formar parte importante –y a veces indispensable– del proceso de aprendizaje, su uso debe ser marginal respecto de la interacción directa entre humanos y el uso de medios de representación que sean accesibles y permitan la libre expresión, como la escritura y el dibujo.