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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 …
There's a very real sense in which nearly *all* children's work is just busywork — they're expected to treat it like it matters, but ultimately it just gets marked up and tossed in the trash. How is that not demoralizing? The sooner kids can do things for real reasons, the better
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?
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?
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
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
really like this
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.)
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/
The whole enterprise of higher education relies on making people solve imaginary problems.
We should apply scientific methods to learning techniques and figure out what actually works and what doesn't.
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