College classes often offer more diversity, so if I propose something like “the art of makeup” maybe there’s already something like that at your local college. But for middle- and high-schoolers there are lots of much viewed, much-rated youtube tutorials that could easily be classes.
Actually, a lot of these tutorials are things like machining / maker videos that used to be popular classes in school but have gotten dropped. Why? Partially budgets not keeping up with cost of living of teachers and staff (the part of “cost disease” that just means that human-intensive jobs are more expensive relative to automatable jobs than they used to be) leading to effective budget cuts over the years for most public schools. But perhaps also misguided concerns about “practicality” or perverse incentives due to high-stakes testing, both of which would make new classes difficult to implement.
But still, some ideas that haven’t been mentioned might look like CNC Machining, 3d printing, Robotics, the aforementioned Art of Makeup, Smartphone life hacks, Custom T-shirt making, Cell-phone photography, how to dance like the people in music videos.
The other class I want to see more of is how to use AI tools to create digital media.
Classes for what audience?
College classes often offer more diversity, so if I propose something like “the art of makeup” maybe there’s already something like that at your local college. But for middle- and high-schoolers there are lots of much viewed, much-rated youtube tutorials that could easily be classes.
Actually, a lot of these tutorials are things like machining / maker videos that used to be popular classes in school but have gotten dropped. Why? Partially budgets not keeping up with cost of living of teachers and staff (the part of “cost disease” that just means that human-intensive jobs are more expensive relative to automatable jobs than they used to be) leading to effective budget cuts over the years for most public schools. But perhaps also misguided concerns about “practicality” or perverse incentives due to high-stakes testing, both of which would make new classes difficult to implement.
But still, some ideas that haven’t been mentioned might look like CNC Machining, 3d printing, Robotics, the aforementioned Art of Makeup, Smartphone life hacks, Custom T-shirt making, Cell-phone photography, how to dance like the people in music videos.
The other class I want to see more of is how to use AI tools to create digital media.
These are great examples. Maybe a meta class on how to learn manual skills from video tutorials?