Hi Olli (sorry about the 10 month late reply, somehow missed this),
in a 45 min class, have half of your classes begin with a 15 minute well-made educational video explaining the topic, with the rest being essentially the status quo
I appreciate all the points you’ve made here, and when you clarify that you’re talking about a supplement to traditional teaching, I can picture that as a very effective situation. I’d hold to the point that this will be costly for the reasons given above, but I have no problem increasing education funding dramatically, I think we should.
As well as my experience making educational resources my daughter and I get a lot of value out of the freely available Khan Academy (we are working through Calculus together) videos, and I can see that a more professional outfit might be able to take those as a scaffold to build something even more engaging for students.
school is critical infrastructure that we run professionally
I totally agree with this, and with your point that improvised amateur hours should be spent outside of the school environment (where it can thrive in a more free-market of ideas). At present I notice (with my daughter’s schooling) that media is often used in a scatter-gun way, drawing bits and pieces from Youtube, mixed in with ads and other unhelpful messaging, because it’s not purpose-built for schools. So, your perspective of seeing it as “critical infrastructure that we run professionally” is key.
Hi Olli (sorry about the 10 month late reply, somehow missed this),
I appreciate all the points you’ve made here, and when you clarify that you’re talking about a supplement to traditional teaching, I can picture that as a very effective situation. I’d hold to the point that this will be costly for the reasons given above, but I have no problem increasing education funding dramatically, I think we should.
As well as my experience making educational resources my daughter and I get a lot of value out of the freely available Khan Academy (we are working through Calculus together) videos, and I can see that a more professional outfit might be able to take those as a scaffold to build something even more engaging for students.
I totally agree with this, and with your point that improvised amateur hours should be spent outside of the school environment (where it can thrive in a more free-market of ideas). At present I notice (with my daughter’s schooling) that media is often used in a scatter-gun way, drawing bits and pieces from Youtube, mixed in with ads and other unhelpful messaging, because it’s not purpose-built for schools. So, your perspective of seeing it as “critical infrastructure that we run professionally” is key.