Mastodawn

RE: https://types.pl/@krismicinski/116168700399750708

As a former high school teacher I see this moment with LLMs and education as both dreadful but also potentially liberating if we could take the opportunity to do away with rote and dull aspects of secondary and post-secondary ed.

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Joe Dohm (he/him)Mar 7

@samfirke do you think the rote and dull aspects of education are separable from the useful parts? I have my doubts.

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Rhymes with Turkey Mar 7

@ThunderDohm if we dream big I think absolutely! A program I have admired since I taught HS is Iowa BIG high school in Cedar Rapids: https://iowabig.org/

Attached is "how it started". The "kids are bored" and "almost all work in school is 'fake'" really hit home for me.

My daughter (current 9th grader)'s world history class is mostly them taking guided notes while the teacher talks, then trying to remember facts for a test. So boring!

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Joe Dohm (he/him)

@samfirke I don’t think that boring is necessarily good, but I think that writing a lot, even when it’s been excruciating, has really helped my son. I’ve also seen people move on too quickly in math-each subject needs to be truly mastered before you can move on. For instance, trying to learn division without mastering your multiplication tables will result in a poor understanding of division.