Tag: education

prokopetz:

dirkar:

Why study for exams when you can deduce the answers based on context clues from other questions and then use those answers to provide you with even more context clues for even more questions in an hour-long stress-fueled Professor Layton-esque logic puzzle extravaganza of future-hinging doom.

Believe it or not, if you want to do well in academia, this particular skill set is at least as important as knowing how to study properly.

Acing an exam doesn’t require filling in answers that are, in some abstract sense, “correct”; it requires filling in what whoever authored the exam thinks the correct answers are. Often the two have very little to do with one another!

Working up a mental profile of the exam’s author based on the wording and arrangement of the questions and going “okay, if I was the joker who wrote this thing, what would I expect the correct answer to be?” is a totally legitimate exam-writing skill, and arguably more critical than actually knowing the material.

javert:

one problem with education (one of many many many) is that schools keep on saying ‘we want to make outlr students successful regardless of their home life’ and then they just… don’t even put in the batest effort towards doing that. If you want students to be successful at school if they have a bad home life, you need to stop relying in the home for A N Y T H I N G

for example: you cannot depend on a child’s home to provide a good environment for doing homework –> kids with poor home wnvironments will be punished because they cannot do their homework –> this is not supporting children regardless of their home environment

stop punishing children for not having their parents sign forms (esp academic ones- reading logs, report cards, etc). stop making field trips opt-in-by-parent-signature, make them opt-out

don’t assume that every child (or any child) eats at home. at the very least, offer free breakfast and lunch to every student. ideally offer a dinner, too.

stop requiring out of school commmitments like community service hours, group projects that require meeting out of school, anything that requires bringing supplies in to school

stop only offerring ‘extra curriculars’ [things like band/chorus, sports, enrichment classes or clubs] outside the school day. it makes a whole segment of the population unable to attend

ideally, schools would have a place where students can tend to their personal hygeine, like showers etc

if you require students to bring a book to read, you better provide a library

there’s like so much more, too. but making the student’s school success at least /theoretically/ not depend on their home life is the absolute bare minimum of treating disadvantaged students with dignity and not kicking them when they’re down

tldr if you say ‘we want our students to succeed at school regardless of their home life’ stop making academic success depend on things that happen at home or out of school

zenosanalytic:

nyshadidntbreakit:

justsomeantifas:

Just in case you forgot the sort of capitalist hell hole we’re living in rn, here’s your friendly daily reminder. ☺

– Mod A

The thing is, of course, that these corporate fuckheads have attempted to cut costs by foisting training off on education, because they don’t have to pay for education. We have the same problem in the UK: corporations are complaining about a lack of skilled labour, but studies have shown that what’s actually happening is that they’re refusing to hire anyone who hasn’t already got experience in the role. Employers refuse to train people because they consider that the job of schools and universities; schools and universities don’t train people because it is literally impossible.

Of course, the buck gets shifted to young unemployed people – if they didn’t go to university, then it’s their fault that they’re not employable because they didn’t go to university; if they did go to university, then it’s their fault because they chose a bad programme, or didn’t do enough internships, or just aren’t trying hard enough to get a job. If a graduate gets a job delivering pizzas to tide them over, it’s their fault for wasting their skills and creating an effective employment gap. If they hold out for a career position, it’s their fault for being too picky.

The primary solution for corps is to employ immigrants from countries where job training is accessible. This feeds back into anti-immigrant sentiment and is now leading to governments attempting to exclude immigrants. Historically these efforts have included caveats to allow corporations to continue to hire “skilled” workers internationally, but these are now starting to be rolled back.

Here’s to corporations suffocating under the weight of their own selfishness.

Yup. The primary generational difference between “Millennials” and previous gens work-wise is that employers were willing to pay for training then, and they aren’t now. They’ve cut training programs to increase quarterly returns and now expect workers to have all the skills and knowledge they require at hiring, and complain about them when they don’t. In effect, they want an education system that teaches every child how to do every potential job so that they don’t have to pay for on-the-job training, which is ridiculous. Obviously not all are like this, HEB in Texas has a great employee education program for instance, but enough are that it’s a serious problem.

skidar:

fremdworter:

romancelanguagehoe:

no offense but! i wish american students would stop seeing foreign language classes as just an academic requirement but an opportunity to learn part of another culture!

I wish language education in english-speaking countries actually seemed to care about teaching us about another culture and learning a language for reasons other that it being useful, rather than just teaching us to pass an exam

I wish learning a second language was mandatory in the US and was taught to us at an early age when we are still developing language skills and comprehension so that its not so difficult to learn other language at a high school level.