Student Interpretation
Sometimes I just want to live in a cabin in a forest with a single solar panel to power my mp3 player. The world is very complicated. It would be soo much more efficient to design things in a simple way.
Schools are not designed to teach people. I do not graduate based on the quantity or quality of what I learn. I graduate based on my ability to turn my learning into a report. There are other things in life that we will have to apply learning to? Why do we not practise those?
If the point of a report is that it is "Proffesional" why is it the only proffesional form of communication we are practising? By the same metric should we not teach kids how to write emails or talk on a workplace? Because group projects where we are left in the dark on how to collaborate efficiently is nothing like my experience in a workplace.
Whenever I try to search for something to make a project at school truly personal to the point I want to do it in my free time it is always "outside the scope of the assessment" unless the assesment was designed for student interpretation - the best teachers do that.