Taking Back Teaching: A Forgotten History
Clay Burell writes, "This all connects to the decision I announced yesterday to 'stop working for schools so I can teach.' Some of the comments I've received suggest that people have defined schools as a necessary ingredient in the definition of 'teaching,' and I can't say loudly enough that that is an historical error of the largest proportions." It just seems to me that as people become informed about the value of online learning, they leave the traditional school system. Just saying. Clay Burell, Beyond School, June 10, 2008. [Link] [Tags: Schools, Online Learning] [Previous][Next]Comments
Re: Taking Back Teaching: A Forgotten History
Clay here. Curious about the implied cause-effect relationship of online learning to my decision to leave schooling. It's less a cause than the systemic weaknesses of schooling in general: large class sizes, grade fixation and extrinsic motivators, a million non-teaching duties eclipsing the teaching one, curricular and administrative constraints, etc. While online learning will figure in my new "career," I more look forward to learning in informal settings with smaller "class" sizes as a fairly traditional tutor.
I'm curious to see, though, whether intimate learning can happen with my students without physically meeting, and instead meeting online. So maybe you'll prove prophetic. [Comment]
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