muraPOI: November 8, 2012
A focus on education…
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Stop Stealing Dreams: Seth Godin’s talk to TEDx-Youth@BFS asks, “What is school for?”
On schools as products of the industrial age:
- School about teaching (respect and) obedience.
- Standardized test, problem with a huge influx of students around WWI and need to sort students.
- Universal public education needed to train people to be willing to work in factories, train them to behave, comply, fit in.
- If it’s work, they try and do less; if it’s art, they try and do more…
8 things we should be doing now:
- Homework/ask your questions/explore during the day, lectures at night.
- Open book, open note all the time. No value in memorizing. Anything worth memorizing worth looking up.
- looking up. Access to any course you want to take, anywhere in the world at any time.
- Precise, focused education instead of mass, batched education. No more multiple choice exams–don’t need easy to score. Measure experience instead of test scores… Cooperation instead of isolation.
- Teacher’s role transforms into coach.
- Life-long learning with work happening earlier in your life.
- Death of the famous college. Ranked as famous, or famous because of football team that’s famous. No need for famous brand name that doesn’t have relevance to success or happiness.
- Teach our kids to go do something interesting. To “figure it out”.
2 myths to break:
- Great performance in school leads to happiness and success.
- Great parents have kids who do great performance in school. [/fusion_builder_column][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][In other words everyone can be happy and succeed, not just those that come from great parents.]
Ask the question…”What is school for?”
The comments on this article remind me of my AP U.S. History class in high school. It really was a tale of two teachers. One required students to memorize fact after fact. The other encouraged students to understand the context in which historical activities occurred: to understand the what, as much as the why. Thankfully I was in the latter’s class, and it was one of my better classes in school. I have a friend who was in the other class, and clearly he wanted something more than just rote memorization–I think it’s the only class he got a B in in high school.
The discussion over on AVC is definitely worth a read.
(via AVC, October 24, 2012)
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Back from yet another globetrotting adventure, Indiana Jones checks his mail and discovers that his bid for tenure has been denied: Is this the kind of professor we want? Remember what Seth Godin asks above…
January 22, 1939
Assistant Professor Henry “Indiana” Jones Jr.
Department of Anthropology
Chapman Hall 227B
Marshall CollegeDr. Jones:
As chairman of the Committee on Promotion and Tenure, I regret to inform you that your recent application for tenure has been denied by a vote of 6 to 1.
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