https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreen … ould-avoid
OPINION: Common Core failed to prepare our generation for communicating in the real world
]]>This topic has been out of view since December of last year ... It is a development in the State of New Hampshire that inspires me to bring it back into view.
A national TV news program spent a surprising amount of time looking at the changes in progress at a private university in the state.
It appears that the university has been hard at work developing an up-to-date online learning environment for a number of years, and they have (apparently) been so successful they're going to make a super big bet ... Incoming freshmen get their first year of tuition free, and each year after that will be $10,000 instead of the default of $30,000 (or so).
If you are not familiar with this school, it wouldn't be surprising. It is one of 5,000 similar schools across the country that have been quietly turning out graduates for many decades, until the current crisis hit.
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]]>When Kellermann began studying mechanical engineering at UNSW in 2000, his professors would write on clear transparencies beamed onto the wall with overhead projectors. Students copied what they saw into paper notebooks and worked on problems from the textbooks they were required to buy. Collaboration and physical presence were necessities – students had to be on-site to copy down the notes and participate in study groups, which were the only way to get help with problems.
Can relate to those days of proffessor professing that they can teach you the course and actuallity they could not do anything but regurgitate fact....
By the time he began teaching, the first wave of digital education was in full swing. Students could upload digital copies of course packs rather than having to buy textbooks, and lectures were recorded and available for playback later. But ultimately, the concept hadn’t changed. Students were still consumers, absorbing information passively.
The computers while the software can give interactive examples simular to the problems in the reading and test its still lacking information for even those capable of the new method of going paperless.
Yet the student body had become drastically different. Some now cared for small children or aging parents at home, or had to work, and could only be on campus part-time. Some students were on the autism spectrum, were blind, deaf or had other types of disabilities. And Kellermann, who views students as his colleagues, wanted to provide them all with the same high-quality education, in an atmosphere that would prepare them for the collaboration and professional skills they’d need in their new careers, while catering to their diversity.
Next step was a purchase of technology and software to create an interactive teaching educational method that took the student out of the classroom and into the living room with the chat program allow others to teach and learn at there own rate. Trying to teach the 1 classroom approach to when our teachers grew up when all ages and abilities were in the room attempting to learn the same information as present at age appropiate levels of understanding means taking different approaches to what one knows of the individual and not treating them all the same way..
]]>The link I'll post below is delivered with Windows 10, so it will be familiar to many forum readers.
I'd like to highlight the sophisticated use of technology to improve the learning experience for college students in Australia.
https://news.microsoft.com/features/hig … ith-teams/
The NewMars forum can be understood as a learning environment, although it has functioned as a debate club for part of its history.
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]]>Launch window for vehicles that we have for payloads that could be delivered comes to mind...
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]]>Having just advised Calliban to read your collection of posts with this search term, I decided to re-read it.
On this reading (of at least four) I came away with two key points or values:
a) Perform lab immediately after theory
b) Do not grade on the curve
Each reading seems to lead to something else (at least for me).
In the case of Calliban's newly introduced topic, there is the potential (should he decide to pursue it) to lay down a series of posts by multiple contributors, that would capture some of the knowledge that would be needed to plan an expedition (automated or crewed) to Apophis (or any similar asteroid).
In this particular case, the education opportunity would be for a person who chances across the topic, to find nuggets worth pursuing through independent study.
SpaceNut is noteworthy (in my experience) for his skill in pulling related topics from the Internet. While some may not provide assistance for a specific need at a particular moment, the one's I've pursued so far have all been interesting, and most have reflected considerable effort on the part of the authors. Some have reflected exhaustive efforts on the part of dedicated teams.
If Calliban decides to pursue the educational opportunity for his topic, I hope you will have a moment or two, now and then, to help him along.
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]]>This is more common than one would think in that acredation for credentials to be allowed to continue to teach....
]]>Firefly is making a philanthropic commitment to STEM, by committing a portion of the payload capacity on Alpha's maiden flight to support and stimulate STEM on a global basis. Firefly also aims to enable other newspace enterprises and increase economic activity in low earth orbit.
The Dedicated Research and Education Accelerator Mission (DREAM) payload also provides newspace entrepreneurs a unique opportunity to gain access to space and gain flight heritage for concepts. DREAM payloads will be co-manifested with a commercial payload.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar … ne/590650/
The essay is well written. It may even be very well written, although I hesitate to make the claim to be able to tell.
What it does do, is to speak to me very directly, as I attempt to contribute to the human story in whatever small ways are available.
The concluding section points out the benefits of shifting focus to offering education to others, and this topic seems a good fit for that concept.
The NewMars forum seems to attract people who are trying to make a dishonest buck, if the spam of recent months is any indication.
The regular forum contributors, on the other hand, appear (to me) to be generally focused upon helping others to make good decisions.
Is it possible to attract people who want to make good decisions in developing their careers?
If we humans manage to avoid doing ourselves in, we should be expanding out away from Earth in the decades ahead. There ** should ** be ample opportunity for individual and collective achievement.
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]]>The most recently hired Superintendent announced a plan to return to a concept tried once before, perhaps with updates and adjustments to improve it.
The plan (as I understand it) is to create "areas" within the large district, which would include all grades. A single person would be responsible for providing consistent leadership for the 12 years of education for the children who are fortunate enough to be able to stay in one location.
https://www.dispatch.com/opinion/201905 … principals
Dixon’s new approach seemingly echoes Etheridge’s long-ago “community of schools” idea. In place of the executive directors whose portfolios of schools were grouped by grade level, she will create six geographic regions and put a newly created “area superintendent” in charge of each.
The idea is for schools in feeder patterns to have consistent leadership from kindergarten through graduation. “When you think about our feeder patterns, and as our students are matriculating to high school, there is some continuity with leadership as they matriculate up,” Dixon told Board of Education members who approved her plan last Tuesday night.
This particular school district has been performing poorly for decades.
Columbus City Schools started as a one-room-school:
https://www.ccsoh.us/cms/lib/OH01913306 … 0Years.pdf
1806 The first school in what is now Columbus was a log cabin built in Franklinton by Lucas Sullivant.
In looking over the history of the district, from 1806 to the present, I see some signs of national leadership, and constant struggles to adapt to growth of the community and to national and global pressures.
Something similar is likely to happen on Mars, as the population grows.
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]]>The new search tags work perfectly! The entire collection appears when your id is added to the author field.
The default mode is for search results to appear in descending order from most recent to oldest.
If someone (out there in forum land) would like to read the series from the top, change the search results direction to ascending.
Also (for someone trying this for the first time) ... be sure to select "posts" rather than the default of "topics".
When I did this, the post of 2019-05-05 showed up at the top of the list.
It was fun (for me at least) to re-read that << grin >>
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]]>As for elimination of vocational education, I didn't cover this before, but both vocational and arts programs have suffered greatly under the impact of over-emphasized standardized testing. The rationale for this is as simple (and as evil) as "if it ain't on the test, we won't teach it".
This is bottom-line thinking spawned by tying funding to standardized test scores, without a single shred of evidence to support such policies, only political slogans (which we all know are nearly invariably lies). At the same time, there is plenty of evidence to support that music programs strengthens math performance, for only one example.
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