Dr. Tae — Building A New Culture Of Teaching And Learning from Dr. Tae on Vimeo.
unis = depersonalization 101
secondary ed = disinterest 101
over 90% of middle school science teachers have never taken a science course outside of highschool
at unis - profs hired for research not teaching
at secondary - teachers certified but not qualified (means the certification we have now doesn't work - if so - we need to start highering based on real competency) - sounds like same thing for what we do in school
the most effective thing we can do is hire and honor good teachers
great science class - mythbusters... if you want to figure out if something is true - you have to experiment
the structure of school
school yr divided, grades, etc
better - skateboarding
if you're learning something new it doesn't make any sense to set a determined amount of time to learn it
can't really force learning.. but that's what schools do
it would be great to not give incentives to cheat - like grades
i don't know how i would cheat at skateboarding
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need: change culture - to places where learning actually happens
work outside the classroom
distributed teaching - distributed computing - using a lot of relatively slow computers at the right time
if everybody did some type of teaching, it might be better than have a few really good teachers
1) wikipedia
2) camps
3) online lectures
none are prof teachers.. just spending a little time sharing what they know
no reason to be selfish with knowledge.. if you share it - you don't lose any of it
teaching and learning doesn't only happen in schools.
it's about making teaching and learning cultural habits
share what you know
dr tae dot org
physics of skateboarding dot com
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