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Time-To-Know Aims To Revolutionize The Classroom

13 points by yungchin 17y ago

nazgulnarsil 17y ago
funded entirely out of the CEO's pocket at this point. not interesting yet.
ZachPruckowski 17y ago
I think a lot of people miss why we need a massive improvement in education. As a civilization, our knowledge and understanding increase year to year, but instruction time stays constant. The basic level of understanding needed to perform most non-menial jobs is skyrocketing, but we're still getting a constant number of learning-hours. It's not just "oh, we need students to score 10% better", but rather "we need to compress 17 years of current education into 13, because next decade, we'll need those college years to teach people about the new stuff". If we want to graduate and employ well-rounded and well-trained citizens, we have to make education more efficient just to keep up year-to-year.
- nazgulnarsil 17y ago
  I disagree. school is not there to teach you procedural knowledge. school is there to teach you how to learn. once this lesson is properly instilled the rest is just frosting on the cake so to speak. fast moving technology doesn't demand people who learned about XYZ in school, it demands people who can constantly learn new things throughout their life. we need a massive improvement in education because we have been backsliding from "teaching children critical thinking skills" to "make sure they know XYZ so we can shove them along." When you subsidize something you typically get more of it. We've been subsidizing crappy education for decades.
  - ZachPruckowski 17y ago
    I'm not saying that school has to teach you every piece of procedural knowledge, but there's a baseline of what someone needs to know to succeed in life, and that list gets longer and longer each generation. I agree that we also need to innovate beyond our current "shove knowledge down kid's throats" approach, but I think that's a separate issue. Doing that would be an improvement in results over our current system. I'm saying we need innovation just to keep the same results our current system is getting. I definitely think we need our education system to do a better job teaching kids how to think and how to learn and it needs to install in them the desire to keep learning once that diploma's in hand.

13 points by yungchin 17y ago

funded entirely out of the CEO's pocket at this point. not interesting yet.

I think a lot of people miss why we need a massive improvement in education. As a civilization, our knowledge and understanding increase year to year, but instruction time stays constant. The basic level of understanding needed to perform most non-menial jobs is skyrocketing, but we're still getting a constant number of learning-hours. It's not just "oh, we need students to score 10% better", but rather "we need to compress 17 years of current education into 13, because next decade, we'll need those college years to teach people about the new stuff". If we want to graduate and employ well-rounded and well-trained citizens, we have to make education more efficient just to keep up year-to-year.

nazgulnarsil 17y ago
I disagree. school is not there to teach you procedural knowledge. school is there to teach you how to learn. once this lesson is properly instilled the rest is just frosting on the cake so to speak. fast moving technology doesn't demand people who learned about XYZ in school, it demands people who can constantly learn new things throughout their life. we need a massive improvement in education because we have been backsliding from "teaching children critical thinking skills" to "make sure they know XYZ so we can shove them along." When you subsidize something you typically get more of it. We've been subsidizing crappy education for decades.
- ZachPruckowski 17y ago
  I'm not saying that school has to teach you every piece of procedural knowledge, but there's a baseline of what someone needs to know to succeed in life, and that list gets longer and longer each generation. I agree that we also need to innovate beyond our current "shove knowledge down kid's throats" approach, but I think that's a separate issue. Doing that would be an improvement in results over our current system. I'm saying we need innovation just to keep the same results our current system is getting. I definitely think we need our education system to do a better job teaching kids how to think and how to learn and it needs to install in them the desire to keep learning once that diploma's in hand.