03-30-2016, 05:23 AM
I was thinking about this again recently after visiting some of the bigger colleges that I might be going to. A big problem with the education system is that it's just a big assembly line to stuff irrelevant information into our heads. I think the school server does things similarly, we have streamlined a process of showing students an ALU and then giving them a trial on how well they know the ALU. I think students that actually want to learn something should be matched with a teacher who can teach them that thing.
When I am online and available for teaching, the first thing I always ask a student is "what do you want to learn."
If they know they want to learn about CPU's, I take them on the usual ALU route, if they say "redstone" or "idk," I teach them the basics, logic gates and binary, and leave them to sit with that information because a lot of times after learning logic gates students are a little more hesitant about moving on to bigger systems.
I like what Koyarno said about the different characters we have on the server and some people focus on some stuff while other people focus on other things. I think that one of the goals on the school server is to identify what a student is best at and work off of that rather than our streamlined ALU factory we have going right now.
When I am online and available for teaching, the first thing I always ask a student is "what do you want to learn."
If they know they want to learn about CPU's, I take them on the usual ALU route, if they say "redstone" or "idk," I teach them the basics, logic gates and binary, and leave them to sit with that information because a lot of times after learning logic gates students are a little more hesitant about moving on to bigger systems.
I like what Koyarno said about the different characters we have on the server and some people focus on some stuff while other people focus on other things. I think that one of the goals on the school server is to identify what a student is best at and work off of that rather than our streamlined ALU factory we have going right now.