Not writing for an audience is, IMO, the #1 problem with student writing assignments. I don't think an imaginary audience cuts it. Writing for no other purpose than a grade undermines the value of the skill. Kids could be writing real children's books, thank you letters, etc.https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1142643056547471360 …
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What if an English teacher genuinely thought of & presented himself as a broad, eclectic editor/publisher of children's work? What if, from the beginning, kids got real feedback & iterated + built on their work until it was consumable? What if they had to say things worth saying?
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Most of school is just a super boring game of Dungeons and Dragons w/a middle aged person who's never had any other job playing as Dungeon Master. "Time for persuasive writing!" Uh, who have you ever had to persuade of anything?
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I didnt do homework in school and simply made good grades on exams. I barely graduated high school because of that broken system. I did the same thing in college and ended up on the Dean's list and Honor Roll. Apparently I prepped myself for college by ignoring teachers
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And a teacher in school gave us "vocational tests" to try and predict the best career for us. My teacher told me I'd be a ditch digger and work on road crews. Two masters degrees later and I'm thinking they weren't good at soothsaying and telling me what to do
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really like this
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In theory the project of the child is the child, their own growth and development, but that’s a project in which they have little formal control or authorship, by design. They can end up not just alienated from work (pointless, silly) but from self-development (imposition, scam.)
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Check out the Coalition of Essential schools Theres recognition of the problem you identify; but little afaik crosses into wider public school system http://essentialschools.org/about-ces/
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The whole enterprise of higher education relies on making people solve imaginary problems.
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We should apply scientific methods to learning techniques and figure out what actually works and what doesn't.
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