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Indeed. A lot of bad teachers are ready to blame anything but themselves for their kids not paying attention in their classes. Too many schools just end up wit
by scrollaway 4y ago
Indeed. A lot of bad teachers are ready to blame anything but themselves for their kids not paying attention in their classes.
Too many schools just end up with this mindset that the kids HAVE to listen in class, and in order for them to, we just have to somehow force them by removing ANY alternative thing they could be doing, that way they will have no choice.
And those same people wonder why the kids say school feels like prison.
- analog31 4y agoTo be fair, the teachers are hopelessly outgunned here. They're competing with a deep pockets industry that can develop infinitely addictive, engaging content that is also designed to be de-educational. Trying to make successful educational media on the same playing field is hopeless. For one thing, the resources for doing that don't exist. For another, kids can instantly perceive that something "educational" is going to be slightly more boring than something purely entertaining and addictive. The playing field can't be leveled. Third, we're really not helping them by reinforcing that the only way to learn is to be saturated in addictive media content. Disclaimer: I'm not sure education was ever all that great, but there were people sincerely trying to make it better.
- alexvoda 4y agoTFA is about teachers being outgunned by the t-rex game. If they can not even outcompete the t-rex game they should not be teaching. A generation back this would have been minesweeper and solitaire. These are all boring games. Further back students would just be doodling in their notebooks. And they still do. These are not highly entertaining activities with which you can't compete.