The funniest coincidence ever
I have the funniest coincidence ever.
A month ago to the day, I started my bearblog subscription. With this I have written over a dozen pieces, personally, for expressing thoughts and opinions in words. That is just the things I have written on my blog which I feel deserves a higher standard of polish than daily thought dumps. however a lot of these thoughts end up dumped into chatgpt.
One of my main critiques of the world is schools and how they teach students. I do not learn in a classroom, I do not create original ideas in a group project at school, I get ideas at 10pm at night when I'm trying to sleep but keep grabbing my phone every 5 minutes to write something down. Or early in the morning where I fall down a stupidly long rabbit hole about the creation of asphalt from bitchumen.
Within a week of me starting writing, my art teacher expressed similar opinions when it came up in discussion. Another week goes by and I end up discussing it with my math/science teacher. and today, 1 month on the dot after I started writing, I mean literally the same day I get charged for the next month of my bearblog subscription. The discussion comes up with all of my teachers.
so now, next term the school is switching several classes to project based learning. If the education department approves it then next year teachers will be able to teach their passion to students as an elective. they will work on removing the strict lines of years 10 11 and 12 and blurring the lines to represent what students actually know instead of what some not specific curriculum standard says they should know. On top of all this the concept of a classroom will be lessened throughout further years, currently it is at a point where a year 12 could literally do everything from their home and not even need to come to school, that is an extreme and still affects their attendance; However with the encouragement of getting out into the world, and what seems to be indirect possibly unintentional inspiration from Blaise Pascal's quote "People are most convinced by ideas they discover themselves." I believe the school will be much more suited towards everyone, from barely parsing students to people looking at next year's textbook because they know what they mean to be learning.
A classroom has the problem of the weakest link in the chain, and going a little more inquiry/project based will certainly alleviate some of that as students are allowed to go deep down rabbit holes if wanted.