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I was shocked years later when I worked with some MSM how amateur they were compared with the fairly "best practice" stuff we invented ourselves for our univers
by com 17y ago
I was shocked years later when I worked with some MSM how amateur they were compared with the fairly "best practice" stuff we invented ourselves for our university paper.
Personally, the best learning environments I've ever been in were when I was at the sharp end of the problem, and had to work it out with other people from first principles. I'll never forget what I learned with sweat running down my forehead.
More traditional teaching like tutorials or apprenticeship-like things aren't so memorable for me, and the apprenticeship model (apart from the positive side of implicit learning of many intangible processes) tends to lead to repetition of ages-old worst practices by the learners in later life.
- ZachPruckowski 17y agoThe reason college organizations develop these best practices is because they're ideally structured for an apprectice-ship/mentor-ship situation. Even the highest ranking and most experienced student has only been there for 3-4 years, so they're experienced enough to know what worked in the past, but the turn-over's high enough to avoid getting bogged down in "this is how we've always done it" or "that didn't work last time". Because the old guard is out in the Real World in a few years, there's less of a delay for a genuine innovator to move from rookie to chief. In the corporate world, those innovative youngsters get frustrated with the idea of spending 10+ years climbing the corporate ladder to be able to put their good ideas and/or unique perspective to use, so some of them quit and become entrepreneurs. It's a very fine line that 3-5 year programs seem to walk rather well.