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If an org is designed in such a way that students are failing at a large scale then it is by nature the org that is the root cause. Why would you have students

If an org is designed in such a way that students are failing at a large scale then it is by nature the org that is the root cause. Why would you have students in a position to fail spectacularly? The answer is obvious to any student but eludes employed academics - the schooling system from the 1950's does not solve 2020's problems. Educational orgs were founded by motivated people with specific vision that fit their time. Those people are long gone and now they are grand beiracraucies that have tried and failed to systemize knowledge and responsibilities. They are endlessly trying to recapture magic because the orgs evolve into many non cohesive groups. Grand systems with many abstractions work when an org is for profit and owns enough fundamental intellectual property and market share that their relevance is by market force. If they didn't have that then a startup could replace them tomorrow. Education on the other hand is propped up by welfare. It is effecticely the law that only accredited institutions can be "education". Yet we know for a fact that a 10 minute YouTube video has significantly better effects on learning than a semester of classes. The market of education needs to be disrupted in order for students to succeed.

selimthegrim 3y ago
If you think college students these days have the attention span for a 10 minute video assigned to them in class I have some bad news for you as an instructor
- devwastaken 3y ago
  They do! I would know :) the problem isn't even the length, the problem is in the performance, the presentation, how cohesive the information is to a new learner. If an instructor plays a video in class, it doesn't work well. "Why are we here again?". If the video is assigned, then its ignored because students have to pay on the private loans that pay you. They have to optimize their life because late stage capitalism and government obesity is squeezing the life out of the younger generation. It's human nature but it's often ignored in favor of easy explanations. If you disagree then simply listen to the conversations students have when they think nobody is listening. The solution, which can be gained by asking any successfully educator (rarely professors), is this - you are a content creator. If you don't know how to play that role, then you can't educate well. The whole purpose of an instructor is to take difficult concepts and make them easier for the human ape brain to understand. We do this by leveraging visual recognition, memory, and social behaviors. For example an instructor that presents good information with a poor performance will result in poor communication of that information. This is so common I could walk into a classroom and example it right now. The problem can only be solved by competition with the existing orgs. There are far better methods, and you can find them if you search.

selimthegrim 3y ago

If you think college students these days have the attention span for a 10 minute video assigned to them in class I have some bad news for you as an instructor

devwastaken 3y ago
They do! I would know :) the problem isn't even the length, the problem is in the performance, the presentation, how cohesive the information is to a new learner. If an instructor plays a video in class, it doesn't work well. "Why are we here again?". If the video is assigned, then its ignored because students have to pay on the private loans that pay you. They have to optimize their life because late stage capitalism and government obesity is squeezing the life out of the younger generation. It's human nature but it's often ignored in favor of easy explanations. If you disagree then simply listen to the conversations students have when they think nobody is listening. The solution, which can be gained by asking any successfully educator (rarely professors), is this - you are a content creator. If you don't know how to play that role, then you can't educate well. The whole purpose of an instructor is to take difficult concepts and make them easier for the human ape brain to understand. We do this by leveraging visual recognition, memory, and social behaviors. For example an instructor that presents good information with a poor performance will result in poor communication of that information. This is so common I could walk into a classroom and example it right now. The problem can only be solved by competition with the existing orgs. There are far better methods, and you can find them if you search.