roger schank just started talking during our iLaw lunch lecture and he's the bomb-diggity lecturer on education and the internet. (schank on board of editors for encyclopedia britannica, designed courses for trump university, etc.) [i love oz, and use" shank"]
check out some of the stuff he's saying............
he asked a roomfull of us (people who fly all over the world) about the information in the safety video shown on a 757:
not a single person knew how many emergency exits on a 757. nor now many inflatable rafts. nor now to inflate a slide.....
schank: what would the airlines do if they actually wanted to teach you something? they'd put you through a simulated crash.
why don't they do that? because it's expensive and it's scary.
the same reasons that a school doesnt actually teach you anything.
you'd have to create an experience!
professors don't actually care about education. students aren't really learning and professors aren't really teaching, but the job is so cushy, no professor is interested in changing it.
when i was head of a phych department, i outlawed mulitple choice tests!
the profs under me: what do you mean? what are we gonna do?
me: i don't know, something else
profs: like what? read essays? that's a lot of work!
i had to retire before i could talk about this stuff.
charles eliot was the president of harvard 1869-1909 is the most evil man in the history of harvard -- he set up the high school curriculum that is still in place TODAY.
if you ever wondered why you took algebra in high school, is because the guy in princeton was selling a textbook on algebra, so he put algebra on high school curriculum!
i'm a math major and a computer science prof, and algebra has never come up in my life, maybe it has in yours.
[sorry, missed stuff here -- dead battery and no outlet]
here's a dragon story i made up--
imagine the best university in the land -- could be harvard could be not -- they want to teach a class about slaying dragons -- so they have a class on the theory of dragon slaying, and the language dept teaches dragonese, and the physics department designs weapons to slay dragons.....
and when the students go out to slay dragons, they all die because no one was teaching dragon slaying! no model dragons that students could practice slaying!
[more to come]
Hi I liked your note, add your site to your bookmarks.
Posted by: RamonGustav | August 23, 2010 at 04:17 PM
Hi I liked your note, add your site to your bookmarks.
Posted by: Buy_Viagra | September 15, 2010 at 08:27 PM
Congratulations! You have so much useful information, write more.
Posted by: Music_master | September 24, 2010 at 07:32 AM
cialis tadalafil cialis tadalafil 100mg cialis tadalafil 20 mg cialis tadalafil american express cialis tadalafil canada cialis tadalafil cialis tadafil tal cialis tadalafil reviews cialis tadalafil viagra cialis tadalafil work cialis the dangers fda cialis the sex pill cialis to buy
Posted by: Hot_cialis | October 29, 2010 at 06:19 PM
cialis tadalafil cialis tadalafil 100mg cialis tadalafil 20 mg cialis tadalafil american express cialis tadalafil canada cialis tadalafil cialis tadafil tal cialis tadalafil reviews cialis tadalafil viagra cialis tadalafil work cialis the dangers fda cialis the sex pill cialis to buy
Posted by: RX-order | November 19, 2010 at 02:43 PM
You write well will be waiting for your new publications.
Posted by: Antivirus_man | December 05, 2010 at 10:24 AM
The new year is already knocking at the door, let it will bring only happiness and joy.
Posted by: JOBS_frend | December 25, 2010 at 10:33 AM
Happy New Year! The author write more I liked it.
Posted by: school_dubl | December 28, 2010 at 02:56 PM
Happy New Year! Happiness and success in 2011.
Posted by: Realestate | January 10, 2011 at 06:19 AM
Happy New Year! The author write more I liked it.
Posted by: Rental | January 14, 2011 at 09:22 AM
With the new 2011. Year! Congratulations.
Posted by: Rental | January 19, 2011 at 06:11 AM
Hi Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Posted by: Hotjobs | January 24, 2011 at 07:47 AM
Worth-reading! I will be waiting for your new post.
Posted by: bio-identical hormone replacement | January 27, 2011 at 05:55 AM
i had to retire before i could talk about this stuff.
Posted by: turtle ridge irvine | July 28, 2011 at 03:23 PM
i'm a math major and a computer science prof, and algebra has never come up in my life, maybe it has in yours.
Posted by: newport coast homes for sale | July 29, 2011 at 02:59 PM