Ah! I recently just finished Pedagogy of the Oppressed! I heard about it on a podcast and decided to pick it up. I haven’t heard of the other one, so I’ll for sure give it a read. Thanks for the recs, comrade.
I’m teaching a college class, and I mostly have freshmen. I’ve never heard of the love and logic framework (the only reason I’m teaching right now is because it’s part of my responsibilities as a graduate assistant while I’m getting a Master’s, so I know very very little about the education world).
My bosses have both said that students don’t know what they need to be able to learn and all they want to do is minimize the amount of work they gave to do (they have stereotyped the students who end up in remedial math as being generally bad students, which I hate. It’s a really toxic way of looking at the students you teach, and it’s just plain wrong. These students want to succeed. They have just been left behind by a broken system). But that’s not been my experience in the slightest. I got so much genuine constructive feedback just by being open to student concerns, and I would have never grown as an instructor if I hadn’t taken the time to listen to them. I can’t even imagine having the mentality that I just simply know better about what students need to learn than the actual students.
Oh I love Phil Ochs and Woody Guthrie. I’ll definitely check out the new stuff
My asexual ass can certainly get enough of that 😂
Oh yes I love all of his stuff a ton, I just have a huge soft spot for A Different Kind of Love Song. Easily my favorite. Thanks for the other rec, I’ll check it out!
“If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child’s natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn’t possibly do as good a job as is currently being done— I simply wouldn’t have the imagination to come up with the kind of senseless, soul- crushing ideas that constitute contemporary mathematics education” -Paul Lockhart
A few of the professors in other departments have some pretty interesting technique as far as grading goes, and they’re seeing a good deal of success. There’s also a growing body of research on alternative practices and the effects on student engagement, and the results outperform traditional grading in pretty much every way relevant to student learning in every study. I’m not saying we gotta immediately do something radical, but what I’m saying is we’re trying to pretend like we’re being radical, while not really making even the slightest push in the right direction. Like even just a little bit of trying something new in order to figure out what works would be wonderful. We don’t have to immediately figure it out. But what we can do is draw from other courses that had success and try to work the principals into our course. However, we’re just stuck in this nightmarish cycle of underperforming in some aspect and pinning it on the students, instead of doing what’s on our product label and making an attempt to free them from the same sort of BS they’ve had to deal with in other classes.
Nothing comes immediately, but it’s like we’re not even trying.
I hadn’t even considered the difference between bank and personal finance. Thank you for you well thought out response, Comrade.
Hell yeah! Congrats!
I get what you’re saying, but I feel like for any given thing, you should have at the very least a basic understanding before trying to give an analysis of it. Maybe I’m just finding it difficult to empathise with people who know exactly 0 about something that’s become a core part of who I am.
I guess the issue is that to them they already have a lot of information about the subject and are unaware that it’s incorrect, which is fair. I’m sure I do the same thing when I talk about physics, seeing as how I’m not a physicist.
Oo good idea
This is wonderful advice. Thank you very much. I’m stealing all of this :)
Can I ask what use this information would have to you?
As far as mathematics is concerned, the following YouTube channels are splendid.
It was, unfortunately, yeah.
My freaking God. I volunteered at a local charity org a bit this summer and one of the first things they told us in orientation was that “most people think that poverty is about what people lack. But it’s actually a mindset.” That pissed me the heck off not gonna lie.
You might need to elaborate. I’m confused at the Bell curve (which is a visual representation of the normal distribution) not having any value at all.
The Central Limit Theorem guarantees that the normal distribution will show up all over the place. To say that it has no value scientifically is simply false.
Genuinely. After making the switch a few years ago, I genuinely can’t fathom using chrome again