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That is great in areas where the correct knowledge or pedagogy is not known. Then you can have different opportunities for success. This is horrible where a t
by MereInterest 6y ago
That is great in areas where the correct knowledge or pedagogy is not known. Then you can have different opportunities for success. This is horrible where a teaching or pedagogy is known to be better. As an example from a few days ago on Hacker News, suppose a teacher wanted to teach Roman numerals as the primary method of representing numbers.
- ironmagma 6y agoA counterpoint would be that we apparently don’t know what we don’t know about pedagogies. Someone clearly thought this was the right way to teach reading, despite every intuition telling any reasonable teacher the opposite.
- mixmastamyk 6y agoNot necessarily. It works in the short run, makes things more fun. Kid moves on and fails high school.
- ironmagma 6y agoThis is where tradition clearly is a strength of human intuition. Nearly everyone who learned to read (successfully) learned with the phonics method. If an individual visionary has the idea to use this new method of teaching reading to his five classes, that’s one thing. It’s another thing entirely for that same visionary to have the power to require every single teacher in the district to teach it that way.