If You Want to Learn Through Creation, Then Hack Your Education!
In the society we live in today, many kids are told that adults know what’s best, right? Well a 13-year-old boy at the time by the name of Logan LaPlante delivered a speech called, “Hackschooling Makes Me Happy” at the University of Nevada at TedX in 2013. Laplante’s speech was important to tell why hackschooling was an escape from the traditional learning at school systems and created an interesting method of learning for him being homeschooled. With Hackschooling, LaPlante could take charge or “hack” his own education and create a better sense of happiness for himself. Overall, LaPlante’s speech was persuasive to his intended audience by expressing a method of learning through comicality, logic and his own experience that’ll help a child …show more content…
Through his speech, LaPlante describes eight things that come from Dr. Roger Walsh that he calls “TLC’s” that basically shows how to practice being happy and healthy. The basic steps were exercise, diet & nutrition, time in nature, contribution & service to others, relationships, recreation, relaxation & stress management, and religious & spiritual involvement. He includes an excerpt from Sir Ken Robinson giving a popular Ted talk about creativity having the same status as literacy. Not only did LaPlante create a proposal from his perspective but also an older adult’s perspective. Some parents agreed with the fact of schools killing a child’s creativity and actually took some of their kids out of the traditional school system to let them “hack” their education with hackschooling. This appeals to logic by persuading the audience to actually think and make happiness a practice using the basic steps. Although, LaPlante didn’t get through to all of the parents some parents actually took heed (including his) to actually let their kids be creative and
In the society we live in today, many kids are told that adults know what’s best, right? Well a 13-year-old boy at the time by the name of Logan LaPlante delivered a speech called, “Hackschooling Makes Me Happy” at the University of Nevada at TedX in 2013. Laplante’s speech was important to tell why hackschooling was an escape from the traditional learning at school systems and created an interesting method of learning for him being homeschooled. With Hackschooling, LaPlante could take charge or “hack” his own education and create a better sense of happiness for himself. Overall, LaPlante’s speech was persuasive to his intended audience by expressing a method of learning through comicality, logic and his own experience that’ll help a child …show more content…
Through his speech, LaPlante describes eight things that come from Dr. Roger Walsh that he calls “TLC’s” that basically shows how to practice being happy and healthy. The basic steps were exercise, diet & nutrition, time in nature, contribution & service to others, relationships, recreation, relaxation & stress management, and religious & spiritual involvement. He includes an excerpt from Sir Ken Robinson giving a popular Ted talk about creativity having the same status as literacy. Not only did LaPlante create a proposal from his perspective but also an older adult’s perspective. Some parents agreed with the fact of schools killing a child’s creativity and actually took some of their kids out of the traditional school system to let them “hack” their education with hackschooling. This appeals to logic by persuading the audience to actually think and make happiness a practice using the basic steps. Although, LaPlante didn’t get through to all of the parents some parents actually took heed (including his) to actually let their kids be creative and