Reopening the American Mind
Thirty years ago I had a high school history and government teacher who forever changed the way I think about the power of identity, especially group identity, in affecting human behavior. In my senior year of high school, in the early 1990s, he taught a section on Nazi propaganda that I’m sure these days would be posted to social media in a hot mi... See more
Antonia Malchik • True believers and mass movements
The Homework Apocalypse threatens a lot of good, useful types of assignments, many of which have been used in schools for centuries. We will need to adjust quickly to preserve what we are in danger of losing and to accommodate the changes AI will bring. That will take immediate effort from instructors and education leaders and clearly articulated p
... See moreEthan Mollick • Co-Intelligence: Living and Working With AI
Advocates of progressive education had long rejected rote learning, seeing it as not only authoritarian but also ineffective. Now they feared the new focus on math and science might exacerbate the problem. At the same time, even some tech-focused reformers were now wary of the problem of static thinking, and so it was that the progressive animosity
... See moreSamuel W. Franklin • The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History
Starts with explaining how in the 1980s and 1990s, in elite schools (e.g. Harvard), there was a shift in focus from producing good corporate employees to the following:
Paul Musgrave • Move Slow and Fix Things
believe that good teachers introduce new thoughts, but great teachers introduce new ways of thinking.