Why We Banned Legos (2006)

Re:Why We Banned Legos (2006) by michaelmrose on Friday February 18, 2022 @07:19PM (#30393065)

We absolutely covered constitutional rights, covered civil rights, and several shitty parts of America's and the worlds history. I don't know how you could possibly believe that teachers just show up for coffee club and free money. Many people even most want to do a good job at whatever it is they are doing because they are intrinsically motivated. Those who choose education are doing a job that requires substantial investment in education and ultimately in working time to earn a modicum of money. In general people interested in those terms have a greater than average chance of being there because of giving a damn. Your analysis is shallow in the extreme.

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Re:Why We Banned Legos (2006) by munk-a on Friday February 18, 2022 @07:28PM (#30393144)

Hell, I was in High School during 9/11 and my principal lost her son in the explosion... Social studies that year heavily featured discussions on the US's involvement in the middle east, opposition to the russian occupation of Afganistan and the constitutional complications of a lot of the laws we saw coming out to fight terrorism. I think I got an absolutely wonderful education on US governmental systems that year - it was just dry Jeffersonian dialogs.

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Re:Why We Banned Legos (2006) by devwastaken on Friday February 18, 2022 @07:33PM (#30393185)

Teachers become teachers not out of passion for teaching but because it is the easiest path to go through if you follow the designed education system. Highschool pushes university hard, university pushes teaching, and teaching is a default path if you're scared of getting skills in anything else. I have met very few teachers whom have life experience outside of being a teacher, and it makes them mindless drones that, yes, collect a paycheck and hand out assignments from Pearson or some other company.

Teachers are now largely unnecessary, COVID made everything done online. It turns out in person teachers are largely ineffective and replaced with a YouTube video. Schooling simply has not kept up, and the unions want it that way.

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Re:Why We Banned Legos (2006) by michaelmrose on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:49PM (#30393675)

Youtube is not a good replacement for instructor led education because you need someone to be able to answer questions, select material, monitor pupil progress, identify weak areas and help improve them.

This is not that dissimilar from someone thinking that businessmen don't need programmers because they could just cut out the middlemen and copy and paste from stackoverflow. It's not real analysis its a powerpoint presentation and its not well connected to reality.

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Re:Why We Banned Legos (2006) by devwastaken on Sunday February 20, 2022 @03:17PM (#30408931)

YouTube is singularly how high schoolers and college students pass most of their classes, because teachers are not competent instructors. Again, most of these things have gone online, with pre recorded videos being the focus. YouTube content creators simply do a better job at it because math, history, philosophy, etc teachers are poor presenters of information.

Compsci is a popular one where the concepts are far easier understood by a YouTube video than a smart board.

The ideas of what teachers do and what they actually do are entirely different. Teachers overwhelmingly are there to hand out assignments bought from a company. If you don't understand it, teachers don't care, it's keep up or drop out.

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