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"This is not an educational system problem, this is a societal problem. What am I supposed to do? Keep standards high and fail them all?"
(hilariusbookbinder.substack.com)
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He sounds boring AF. Maybe attention spans are down. I don't know. I know I spent most of school daydreaming because some idiot droning through a bunch of slides is the worst way to teach and learn.
One thing I noticed as a student and then a brief stint as as TA for a few years is that the whole slide deck thing would be waaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy less boring if students did any amount of or effort.
Teachers always asked questions. Always tried to stoke conversations. Debate.
Students didn't answer. It was silence. They didn't do the pre-read. They didn't do any of the voluntary work. They showed up and expected to have knowledge transmitted into their brain in a way they get it.
It doesn't work like that.
If your teaching requires students to do a thing, and they're proving incapable of doing the thing, maybe pick a different thing.