Genuine question. My son struggles in class not because the material is too hard but because everything moves too fast for him to actually absorb it before they're already on the next thing. His teachers aren't doing anything wrong, it's just the class just can't wait for one kid. Is self-paced learning actually effective or is it a marketing term at this point?
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Hello everyone.. my kid is in 5th grade. We want to know the future of education and we are clueless what to do or where to enrol my kid after 10th grade? If a kid wants to pursue engineering what are the next steps and if the child wants to get into medical how should one prep? Commute is also an issue so we are wondering to shift to a central location or stay put. Any leads will help. TIA
Logical fallacy
1. Post hoc (ergo propter hoc):
The logical fallacy that "X caused Y" because "event Y occurred after event X".
"Both sculptors and appraisers have the power to raise the market value of a piece of stone. The sculptor raises the market value... by shaping it. The appraiser raises the market value... by judging it. Teachers need to ask ourselves: 'How much of what we do is sculpting, and how much is appraising?'"
Caplan argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students' skills but to certify their intelligence, conscientiousness, and conformity—attributes that are valued by employers. He ultimately estimates that approximately 80% of individuals' return to education is the result of signaling, with the remainder due to human capital accumulation.
Caplan advocates two major policy responses to the problem of signaling in education:
The first recommendation is that government needs to sharply cut education funding, since public education spending in the United States across all levels tops $1 trillion annually.\12]) The second recommendation is to encourage greater vocational education, because students who are unlikely to succeed in college should develop practical skills to function in the labor market. Caplan argues for an increased emphasis on vocational education that is similar in nature to the systems in Germany\13]) and Switzerland.\14])\15])
To be clear. Bryan Caplan is an anarchist, however he thinks good policies come from economic growth which comes from good policies.
Indeed, the common refrain that teachers should focus on abstract critical thinking skills, disconnected from content, risks de-emphasizing the very thing — fluency with a broad set of facts — that supports critical thinking.
“Domain knowledge is a crucial driver of thinking skill,” wrote University of Virginia cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham in 2020 for the American Educator, a publication of the American Federation of Teachers. “Critical thinking for open-ended problems is enabled by extensive stores of knowledge.”
SS: Critical thinking with AI, at the expense of content knowledge, doesn't seem to make sense. How would you know AI was making up a fact, without knowing the fact?
I’ll be traveling out to Lakewood soon for residency as an online Grad student and was wondering if anyone knows how to get in touch with other students/alumni? I wasn’t able to find ANY social media groups. Any suggestions or insight would be greatly appreciated.
