Thank you for all your thoughtful comments on my post about education today, or at least my corner of it. I’ve had some great materials forwarded my way. Watch these now.
5 Dangerous things you should let your kids do, by Gever Tulley
I grew up like this. It works. Tulley runs The Tinkering School very close to where I live. I’ll be sending Mike there when he’s about 10 for sure.
Thank you Zoe for showing me this.
A Vision of Students Today
Nearly made me cry.
Thank you Melanie.
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Wow. I often forget how fortunate I was to attend a University with a class size of 15, where you were taught and evaluated everyday, no one missed class and you learned a boatload of really cool stuff. Lucky me. – Mike, West Point ’87
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Very powerful.
My children are 2 and 4, and I wonder how technology will have evolved by the time they're in junior high and beyond.
It's an issue — kid's peers all connect online, via cells, etc. — so to have a place among their friends, kids almost have to use technology all the time.
What's a parent, educator, etc. to do? It's daunting.
Since kids are using technology so much to connect with each other, educators are finding they need to come up with new and innovative ways to keep their interest and engage them in the classroom.
It's all very interesting how education is changing (or will be changing)…at least to me, anyway. :)
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Brilliance! I so needed to see those today.
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That was very interesting. I'm not sure How i feel about it though, i get the impression I'm meant to feel negatively.
University is different to school. you basically get out what you put in, and it's pretty reasonable that the lecturers should not have to force you to participate if you can't find the motivation.
I've got two degrees, the first a completely average grade, and the second as high as it's possible to get (1:1 – I'm in the uk). my intelligence didn't change between the two but my motivation did.
I'm just babbling really. sorry.
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Whoops! Tinkering?? I thought it was the potty training school! LOL
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My classes had on average 30, 40 students, and I was still shocked when a teacher remembered my name once the semester was over.
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Wow, those were so powerful. I got so burned out teaching and I just realized why I can't go back until things change.
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Wow, excellent thought-provokers there. I'm raising 4 kids and am realizing…while technology is great, there comes a time when Mom HAS to decree "Enough, time to get a Real Life."
'Twill be challenging.
Barbara
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That was wild to watch. I think I need to process it a bit, but thanks for sharing.
P.S. I also attended college where my average class size was 15 and my largest was 70, so my perspective is so different as well.
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Those TED talks are great…another favorite is Sir Ken Robinson's "Do Schools Kill Creativity?":
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66
Thanks for posting that TED talk. Watching and listening to it reminded me of what was so great about my childhood. The older we get, the more George and I talk about moving back to the country when we have kids, giving them the opportunity to play with fire, own pocket knives and throw things without the restrictions of fences and city ordinances.
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Yep, those are hard things to do around here. Although, the Tinkering School is just out at the coast (Montara) so you could always just take advantage of that.