Project Classroom Makeover Analysis

What does meaning of unlearning? The “unlearning” is not meaning do not study the knowledge, or an antonym word of “learning”. In fact, the word “unlearning” is not meaning as it shows, it means people should think about themselves, to understand who they are and what they good at and poor at. Therefore, people can improve themselves better than they were. In the article, “Project Classroom Makeover”, Cathy Davidson points out that as a faculty chairs at Duke University, she lets the Duke students try a new way of study the knowledge which using IPod replace the textbook. So this is a kind of unlearning, which to broke an old rule—using textbook for studying. However, now it becomes to use iPod. No one has the same idea before. During the experiment,
Twenge suggests that children should have the self-esteem when they were young. The children should know who they are, then they can be better. Therefore, connecting the ideas of two authors, the “unlearning” can help the children to build up their self-esteem. There are three steps for building the self-esteem. They are understanding, using and extent. When people want to have self-esteem by though “unlearning”, they have to understand what do they mean. “Unlearning” is a new word to the people, because before that most of people would follow the most popular ideas. They even did not think was that right or wrong. So Davison claims that most people think that IPod is a MP3, which is used for listening music. However, no one think about use it for studying. Davison writes: “ Without confidence in your ability to learn something new, it is almost impossible to see what you have to change in order to succeed against a new challenge. Lacking confidence in your ability to change, it’s much easier to blame the changed situation—typically, new technologies—and then dig in your heels, raising a bulwark against the new”