“When you learn to ride a bicycle, and you fail to learn a bicycle then you dont stop learning a bicycle, give the person a D, and move on to get a cycle. You keep training them as long it takes to ride a bicycle and then they can ride a bicycle” ............................................................................................................... From 11: 22 to 14: 23 .. ...and I thought about this email for a long while, It was absolutely true. In all my life in teaching, my 20 years of teaching “in Stanford”, I had always been a tough teacher. Id always given students really hard questions, and always let them fail and would come to their rescue; making myself look really smart! Here was no purpose of weeding, this was an open university, there was no reason to reduce class size, there was no certificate to be honored, and “here I” was teaching a weeder class. Then I started to realize that if you really set up all students not for success but for failure. We really empower the professors by looking smart and we dont really help the students to become smart. And this was just one example of a person was dropping out because I was the smart ass, I didnt help her! I started realizing that grades are the failure of the education system (…) just means that, really, educators failed to get them to A+ level. So rather than grading students with grades as “it” done in the beginning of the class, my task had to be to make students successful and get everybody to A+ level. So it couldnt be about harsh questions and difficult questions, their one chance if they got it wrong they got a C. We changed the entire system to make this, with the questions were still hard, we give more assistance, we let them take ’em multiple times, if they finally got them right they would get the A+. (..) Salman Khan has a wonderful story: “When you learn to ride a bicycle, and you fail to learn a bicycle then you dont stop learning a bicycle, give the person a D, and move on to get a cycle. You keep training them as long it takes to ride a bicycle and then they can ride a bicycle” Our classes today, in math for example, when someone fails we dont take the time that is needed to make the students strong student, we give them a C or a D, or an F, and then we move to the next class. And now they already brain marked as losers, they missed the necessary skills and knowledge, and they’re setup for failure. This medium has the opportunity to fundamentally change all of this.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 21:11:18 +0000
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