I don't know what to do.
Sep. 27th, 2005 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexr_rwxEdutech makes me want to get out of school and into the workforce. This class. This class, oh my god, makes me want to claw my eyes out. I realized today that I spent four and a half hours sitting and listening to people talk about things that I either already knew or didn't find interesting in the slightest.
I'm perfectly capable of learning things by means of reading a book. Your research does nothing for me. Yes, in order to learn things, people should do Personally Meaningful Projects. Yes, learning is an active process. No, I don't care how you would classify a particular set of buzzwords, whether it counts as "Problem Based" or "Project Based" or "Cognitive Apprenticeship". These are not things in the real world. These are categories that people (such as yourself) made up.
It might not be school-in-general. It might just be edutech. I think I can see the value in taking a class on computability and algorithms and stuff, or about language design or AI. These are things I need to know, I think.
Janet, you make industry very tempting, though. (metasyntactic expletive)+
But I'm 23 years old, and I've spent the last 17 of those years in classrooms. Maybe it's time to not be in a classroom anymore.
I'm perfectly capable of learning things by means of reading a book. Your research does nothing for me. Yes, in order to learn things, people should do Personally Meaningful Projects. Yes, learning is an active process. No, I don't care how you would classify a particular set of buzzwords, whether it counts as "Problem Based" or "Project Based" or "Cognitive Apprenticeship". These are not things in the real world. These are categories that people (such as yourself) made up.
It might not be school-in-general. It might just be edutech. I think I can see the value in taking a class on computability and algorithms and stuff, or about language design or AI. These are things I need to know, I think.
Janet, you make industry very tempting, though. (metasyntactic expletive)+
But I'm 23 years old, and I've spent the last 17 of those years in classrooms. Maybe it's time to not be in a classroom anymore.
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Re: 'metasyntactic expletive' <interrobang>
Date: 2005-09-28 01:32 am (UTC)Eh, whom'm I kidding? It's always better to curse the darkness than light candles! (Oh, poor, poor pitiful me.)
(also: in my mind, there's a difference between jargon and buzzwords... jargon is happy and communication-improving, whereas buzzwords obscure meaning and are useful only for fuzzy-thinking sorts)