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While I totally agree with how obsolete is the current education system, as a person who has worked in several experimental education projects I still have my d

While I totally agree with how obsolete is the current education system, as a person who has worked in several experimental education projects I still have my doubts that semester/year long projects work well. Kids and teens have very short attention span, when you say let's create a space shuttle they want to do it ASAP. After few days working on the same project they usually get very tired and the supercool subject becomes another "normal subject". Furthermore, not every kid wants to design a space shuttle, some wants just to dance, others draw graffiti, some others just sing or even reading a book might be more satisfying for some. What I want to say is that education is a quite complicated task. Parents and their contexts play gigantic roles that superfun and shinny activities at school cannot replace. I think inequality have to be fight from many angles, better jobs, universal health systems, investing in 3rd tier neighborhoods, less taxes for people who have less, helping people who have shi jobs and cannot afford to even search for new ones to have better ones, better integration of immigrants in the cities, etc, etc, etc Some examples of some of those projects http://victordiazbarrales.com/workshops/the-patching-zone---mediawerf/ http://victordiazbarrales.com/workshops/the-patching-zone---... http://victordiazbarrales.com/workshops/circolab/ http://victordiazbarrales.com/workshops/circolab/ edit: format

rglover 8y ago
> Kids and teens have very short attention span, when you say let's create a space shuttle they want to do it ASAP. So we teach them how to rein that in. > not every kid wants to design a space shuttle, some wants just to dance, others draw graffiti, some others just sing or even reading a book might be more satisfying for some. Dance: choreograph the ceremony before and after the launch. Graffiti: design the space shuttle's logo, branding, and marketing. Sing: see dance line above or other vocal needs like recording audio instructions for procedures or status updates on the mission. Reading: prepare a flight manual. --- The space shuttle is one example. My point is that adults need to apply creativity to generating multiple options, not just trying to make everything a one size fits all solution. Take some of the folks who write Hollywood scripts and have them create interesting projects for learning. Hell, we could even take movies and use those as our foundation (makes it fun for the kids and parents). If this is something you're interested in working on, shoot me an email: me@ryanglover.net.

rglover 8y ago

> Kids and teens have very short attention span, when you say let's create a space shuttle they want to do it ASAP. So we teach them how to rein that in. > not every kid wants to design a space shuttle, some wants just to dance, others draw graffiti, some others just sing or even reading a book might be more satisfying for some. Dance: choreograph the ceremony before and after the launch. Graffiti: design the space shuttle's logo, branding, and marketing. Sing: see dance line above or other vocal needs like recording audio instructions for procedures or status updates on the mission. Reading: prepare a flight manual. --- The space shuttle is one example. My point is that adults need to apply creativity to generating multiple options, not just trying to make everything a one size fits all solution. Take some of the folks who write Hollywood scripts and have them create interesting projects for learning. Hell, we could even take movies and use those as our foundation (makes it fun for the kids and parents). If this is something you're interested in working on, shoot me an email: me@ryanglover.net.