Mark Rober: My $60 million science experiment
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Mark Rober: My $60 million science experiment
Over the past few weeks, I've come across several examples of incorrect information, inconsistent terminology, and outdated resources in materials from multiple providers. Is this something others have noticed, or have I just had an unusual experience?
Dr. Michael F. Young—a scholar of learning science whose academic career investigating situated cognition, instructional design, and playful learning has shaped contemporary approaches to pedagogy development and classroom technology integration—joins The Worldbuilding Workshop Podcast to discuss the specific impact(s) of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) on education, including:
Stick with me here I’m really needing some help. My grandparents were given guardian ship over me when I was 17 so I could finish school with them. My grandmother claimed the school I was trying to transfer to (yes it’s was within the limits there were other children that lived close to us in the area that went to school there) didn’t want to accept me ‘because I was a bad kid’. Which is ridiculous because I was an active cheerleader at the previous school and we had to be on our best behavior all the time. So she put me in a homeschool that was Christian based and I wasn’t capable of getting through the science course because it was based on the bible and I grew up studying evolution. I didn’t have that many requirements left for graduation but the science was the main subjects I needed because I was also pursuing a career in nursing. Well here we are and I’m 24 just finding out that my grandmother NEVER sent in a transcript ANYWHERE. I called the schools she claimed wanted nothing to do with me and they have nothing. So my grandfather died being told I failed highschool because I was a bad kid. I had to drop out and start working full time to pay for my apartment I signed the papers for on the day I turned 18. I’ll never get to walk across a stage. This has affected me so much.. my entire family has always held this over my head always talking about how awful I am because of it. I live in Oklahoma if there’s anyone that knows how to help me clear this up in some way please help me. My entire family refuses because they just simply don’t care and I have no one.
What are some of your thoughts on the traditional free public education system in America?
Has it let you down? Has it allowed or prevented opportunities? How has it shaped you and what would you shape it into knowing what you know now?
Could you share your experiences, opinions, and ideas for improvement about when you were in school?
I am in the process of utilizing this information and it would be greatly appreciated the more people that share in depth!
Thank you!
One of the quieter challenges in teaching is the student who sits in the back, never causes trouble, but is clearly checked out. They do the minimum, rarely participate, and seem to be just waiting for the bell to ring. They're easy to overlook because they're not a problem in the traditional sense, but they often end up falling through the cracks.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately and wanted to hear from teachers, administrators, former students, and anyone else in education about what actually helps in these situations.
Do you try oneonone conversations? Change up the classroom activities? Contact parents early? Some students respond when given more autonomy or choice in assignments. Others seem to need a real connection with the teacher before anything else shifts.
I'm also curious whether school structures themselves make this harder. Large class sizes, rigid curricula, and highstakes testing can make it difficult to give individual students the attention they need.
What strategies have you seen make a real difference for quietly disengaged students? And what approaches have backfired or made things worse? Would love to hear from people at different grade levels and school settings, since the dynamics seem pretty different across the board.