education: this could be a duh, but there’s mor to it

Annnnnnd we are back post­ing most­ly dai­ly! Some life things hap­pened out­side of FLOMM so mehal­lo found him­self tak­ing the sum­mer off from RADíO FLoMM, the ZINE, PRO­TO AVANT AL­TRO, and of course, der­TUNG – this in­clud­ed some health is­sues, a death in the fam­i­ly as well as mov­ing to a whole nü place and set­ting up a nü stu­dio to make mor nü! For now, here’s an edit­ed re­post of a post on the FLOMM Face­book page •••

“Cal­i­for­nia State Uni­ver­si­ty stu­dents are fail­ing or with­draw­ing at high rates from many cours­es – in­clud­ing chem­istry, cal­cu­lus, Eng­lish and U.S. his­to­ry – prompt­ing re­newed ef­forts for sys­temwide reform.”
—Lar­ry Gor­don, EdSource

Read mor here:

 

As an arts ed­u­ca­tor, i see the num­bers cit­ed in this ar­ti­cle as low com­pared to where I am teach­ing right now.

Over the past sev­er­al years, I’ve found as soon as i add SE­RI­OUS WORK to a course, the stu­dents drop in droves.

And i’m pret­ty sure it’s get­ting a lot worse than better.

Ed­u­ca­tion reform? 

The whole sys­tem needs an over­haul – but that is a re­al­ly scary thing to pro­pose, es­pe­cial­ly to the pow­ers at the top. Every sin­gle stu­dent I’ve ever met has had a to­tal­ly dif­fer­ent learn­ing style from the per­son sit­ting next to them. Work­ing with that – and some pow­er­ful egos – leads to bat­tles. Some won, some lost, many not worth even starting.

My take is stu­dents have to own their own ed­u­ca­tion, work with oth­ers so they can con­clude on their own how im­por­tant learn­ing is.

And – very im­por­tant – on­line learn­ing as it is right now is one op­por­tu­ni­ty to change the par­a­digm. New tech, new ap­proach = an­oth­er op­por­tu­ni­ty to get the knowl­edge to stick.

How? Not sure, but I’ve been ex­per­i­ment­ing with how learn­ing works for over two decades now and I will con­tin­ue to ex­per­i­ment in my cir­cle of in­flu­ence un­til some­thing ac­tu­al­ly works.

 

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM!

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