Created by Baruš Jeřábková
Because many instant ideas can be very quickly recorded and organized.
There are no schoolbooks in our school because no matter how many pictures and colors they contain, they're still so incredibly limiting and outdated. However, I needed a platform to be able to organize my project teaching. OrgPad allowed me to create a new type of "schoolbook" concept, the so called "gates of knowledge of the world" through a thing that is a significant part of children's life.
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Honza Kršňák's methodology and mentoring was a significant help for me to be able to find the way how to help children to proceed their own work and how to combine it with my "gates".
As soon as I started to create preparations of my English lessons in OrgPad, I noticed a logical sequence. I have been teaching English for three years. During that time, I was not able to find any logical structure that I could stick to. Suddenly, I saw it crystal clear on my screen! This is something that will definitely work!
It's an amazing tool with combination with Zoom - the kids can see how everything is related, it helps them to understand quickly. They can continue working on the OrgPage we created together.
Because when I record my ideas, I feel satisfied.
I am a very intuitive teacher, but I had a need to balance it with some structure that would allow me to feel safe in the flow. Because OrgPad helped me with finding the method and the system of preparation, I can feel safe and more confident. It means that also the kids are safe.
I was searching for the best way of making my weekly and monthly preparations. I tried tables, diferent folder organization... nothing was satisfactory. OrgPad finally provided exactly what I needed!
It's an incredible tool for communication in children's work! I can provide personal feedback, encouragement or advice right into their OrgPages. They read it when they can, I read it when I can, it's great that it's not dependent on calls or help of a parent.
It works great in online teaching. We also have the "ask me whatever you want" OrgPage. I feel it's much closer to the children's way of thinking than Classroom clumsy comment sections...
I was praying to God to help me. I consider this an answered prayer.
The kids are often very creative, but they struggle with planning and continuing to completion. Some kids are, on the other hand, quite passive. OrgPad helps to organize those impulsive creative kids and to motivate those who are not so proactive.
It helps me to know what I want from them and they also learn to realize what they want and where they are going...
me and the kids
The fact that every child has their own portfolio in OrgPad allows them to follow their work and to make self-reflection. We tried to keep the children managing their portfolios, but it didn't work because the portfolios only worked with papers.
For so long, I've struggled to get the kids to produce any outputs of their work. We were talking and discussing a lot and experiencing things but there was no tangible result that would cause them to feel proud of their work, to think back, to rejoice over their experience and discoveries. OrgPad provides it all.
My hypercreative, impulsive and flow nature caused me to be chaotic and not always responsible as I was supposed to be. I was tired of life and frustrated. There is still a lot work to do, but everything that has been already mentioned in this page is helping me to feel more comfortable in my skin. And suddenly, I see that the characteristics that were always causing me problems and other people being mad at me are actually inherently good.
I makes me think about the kids that feel they're not able to come up with an original idea that would make them feel being good enough. They adopt other children's ideas because they think these kids are better than them. What if they learned that these ideas don't make a person more valuable? What if they learned that ne may have an idea and other may have an amazing ability to develop this idea and it's totally ok? What if they learned that enjoying the idea of somebody else together was fun?
And I can see this happening in my class actually, but this process of thinking helped me to see it in contours. So I can work with it now.
i feel like If I continue doing this, I'll be sooo smart! 😁
Even the kids are blaming other kids for stealing their ideas when they get inspired by their work. Were they born this way or did we teach them that?
If I teach the kids that this is not copying but getting inspired, they quickly embrace it and change their vocabulary.
This is how I have been always thinking. But It's like a language - when you don't have a word to describe some nuances of an expression, you don't even know it's there. I know some words in English that don't cover any Czech word completely. I need to use these English words when speaking Czech because I mean exactly what the English word describes, not the Czech one. But those who doesn't know this word don't even know that there is that nuance.
The whole OrgPad concept works the best if people share their OrgPages. You can copy the whole page of somebody else and develop it according to your ideas and needs. You can get inspired by other people's way of thinking which may suddenly bring a significant change to your life. I'm not exaggerating, this is a personal experience.
OrgPad completely disrupts our society's mindset where we protect our know-how in order to be appreciated and not to share the merits. And where there is a significant amount of time and effort spent in the universities not to use somebody's work for your own without a strict protocol.
How would thinking be beyond the language?
It's not only the OrgPad but also their creators. I felt like my brain was a can that had been sealed for many years because I thought I was not able to think about certain things whatsoever. During the discussions with Vítek Kalisz I felt like this can was unsealed and it opened a few more eyes to be able to see the world from more points of view.
The possibility of recording your thoughts this way instantly upgrades your brain to another level.
Many people say that the competition is important or even the only motivation. But I strongly believe, that joy is much more powerful. However, it changes our goals. And this is what is not easy to accept for many people.
But OrgPad might help many of them to be able to accept this. Just as it helped me.
I was thinking whether to share my work in OrgPad or not because of this feeling that I have put my effort in it, and somebody else could use it just like that and even take credit for it. I had a conversation about this issue with Honza Kršňák. And he explained to me that sharing my work can help others a lot and vice versa.
I realized that as a society we could move so much forward if we left our pride and gave our ideas to others for free… The OrgPad creators say that the best OrgPages are not public. If we shared “our brains”, our knowledge and ways of thinking together, it would accelerate our development immensely! This realization has reflected in other areas of my life and brought me more freedom. It makes me genuinely excited that OrgPad might change our society's view of this matter.
Which is a complete madness, because it used to by a part of my identity that mathematics is something that is just not a part of my life. The conversations with OrgPad creators and the OrgPad itself opened a whole new dimension in my thinking I didn't even know was there. I am at the treshold of something new and I'm very excited about it!
Because we were all brought up that way, we try to be always the best to feel accepted, worthy and appreciated. In order to be the best, either we tend to get those who are successful down or we envy and feel useless. We can find this in every human fellowship - families, companies, churches, couples, children...
What would society look like if we weren't slaves to striving to always be the best? What would society look like if we could rejoice in the successes and ideas of others and be able to dispose of them freely without fear of offending anyone? Where would we be able to get to?
As a Christian, I see that this is exactly what God meant by the Church - His people.
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