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I like the Sal Khan model personally, but given the difficulties with online school w/ regards to adherence and attention I'm not sure it universally scales. Ad
by lofatdairy 4y ago
I like the Sal Khan model personally, but given the difficulties with online school w/ regards to adherence and attention I'm not sure it universally scales. Add onto the fact that students might have questions and will have to save them for the day after, leading to being behind overall -- I'm not sure it extends that well.
Essays aren't fun to write and are obviously trivial w/ LLMs, but the in class solution could definitely work. In high school they're obviously shallow and formulaic, but idk if there's no benefit at all. Even writing shallow comments on internet forums benefit from practice writing coherent sentences lol
- ghaff 4y agoAt some point, you need to give a shot at teaching writing (and, for that matter, presenting) in high school. I'm unconvinced on the write an essay in class idea; seems like sort of a waste of class time. Writing is not a mostly a real-time collaborative exercise. (Writer's room I know but that's not high school. As a group exercise, you'd end up with one student probably doing all the work.)
- lofatdairy 4y agoI suppose less an real-time collaborative exercise, and more of a way to encourage short bursts of repetition -- in line with how debaters have to quickly formulate and synthesize speeches in high school and college. Writing is obviously not trivial to learn nor to teach, but rhetoric used to be the center of education during the classical period and being able to quickly organize ones thoughts is just as important as turning it into language.
- ghaff 4y agoI never did debate--though I've seen it--and my understanding is it turned into a pretty formulaic enterprise. It's pretty different from a 5-10 minute presentation on a topic (which we did on a rotating basis in high school English).